Pilot jobs in NottinghamCreate job alerts

The Role Legal PA - Nottingham - Up to £34,000 salary Join a highly regarded legal practice and immerse yourself in an environment that champions growth and progression. Become an integral part of a dynamic and fast-paced Commercial team, where you will contribute to innovative projects and exceptional client service. As a Legal PA, you will provide high-quality, proactive support to partners and fee earners, making a tangible impact on the team's success. Key Responsibilities • Work closely with Finance to support fee earners in improving financial performance, including billing, reporting, matter balances, and working capital management, • Collaborate with Business Development to coordinate events and conferences, maintain CRM records, and update CVs for bids, tenders, and pilot submissions, • Organise and attend internal and client meetings, prepare impactful reports, and assist with planning client events, • Manage end-to-end matter processes: ensure correct rate application, draft engagement letters, and liaise with the Business Acceptance Unit, • Conduct conflict checks and Client Due Diligence, ensuring full compliance with Client Matter Inception procedures, • Oversee file management, including WIP monitoring, billing, payments, matter closures, and archiving, • Provide full diary and travel management, including itinerary planning, resolving scheduling conflicts, and booking cost-effective travel solutions, • Ensure all meeting requirements are met, including preparation of materials, itineraries, and hospitality arrangements, • Deliver strong technical support to fee earners, proactively identifying and addressing any knowledge gaps, • Uphold risk and compliance policies, escalating issues to Partners or the Compliance team when necessary The Candidate • A minimum of three years’ experience in a professional services or legal environment, • Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with a keen eye for detail, • Flexibility and adaptability to meet client needs, • High proficiency in Microsoft Office suite, • A track record of delivering outstanding client service, • Strong ability to collaborate as part of a team while also thriving independently The Benefits & How to Apply • Up to £34,000 depending on experience, • 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays - option to buy/sell 5 additional days, • Incentive birthday day off, • Private health & dental care, • Season ticket loans., • Perk box discounts - High-street & gym, • Generous pension scheme Apply in the strictest of confidence online and or via telephone. Contact Tara Halliwell (Retained Consultant) Direct Dial: 0161 826 3140 Mobile: 0793 999 2563 Email:

Chief Scientific Officer – Climate Tech/Carbon Capture - Nottingham, UK - Permanent\n\nOur client is a pioneering climate-tech company developing breakthrough technology to permanently mineralise CO₂ into high-performance concrete additives. They are an innovative and ambitious startup organisation specialised in developing new calcium-based materials from carbon capture processes. Their mission is to utilise CO₂ and waste to create, stronger, cheaper and cleaner building materials.\n\nTo continue the growth of the organisation they are seeking a Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) to lead the transition of their technology from TRL 5 to TRL 8 and deliver performance at industrial scale.\nThe CSO will be responsible to scale chemistry into industrial processes, support scale-up across pilot plant and demonstration plant, ensure performance with real industrial inputs, deliver under tight timelines and budgets and lead a team to achieve clear, measurable outcomes\n\nThe main targets of this role will be to drive TRL progression (5 to 8), translate lab work into industrial performance, remove scale-up bottlenecks and deliver results through the team\n\nThe desired outcomes of this role will be to achieve TRL progression, demonstrate a reliable pilot and demo performance, identify and resolve key scale-up risks and to drive a team that consistently delivers against milestones\n\nExperience and background\n• Proven years in industry or startup (not academic-only)\n• Experience scaling chemical or material technologies beyond lab\n• Strong understanding of scale-up and industrial constraints\n• Experience managing teams and budgets\n• Experience in carbon capture, utilisation, or related fields\n• PhD or MSc in a relevant field\n\nDesirable experience\n• CO₂ mineralisation\n• Concrete / Cement chemistry\n• Startup scale-up experience\n• IP / patents

NPI Lead: Precision Engineering (Nuclear, Defence, Aerospace and Energy)\n\nLocation: Nottingham\n\nSalary: £50,000 - £55,000 (Dependant on experience)\n\nEMBS Engineering has been instructed on an exclusive basis to appoint a critical hire for a highly respected, precision engineering business specialising in build-to-print solutions for demanding sectors including Nuclear, Aerospace, Defence, and Energy. Known for technical excellence, quality, and long-term customer partnerships, our client is looking to expand and hit new record heights.\n\nAre you the bridge between a visionary design and a physical product? We are seeking a high-caliber New Product Introduction (NPI) Lead to spearhead the transition of customer build-to-print designs into full-scale manufacturing. Operating within a fast-paced subcontract environment, you will be the central coordinator ensuring that every new product is launched on time, within cost targets, and at peak quality levels.\n\nThe Role:\n\nAs the NPI Lead, you own the industrialisation phase. You are the critical link between the customer, sales, engineering, supply chain, and production. Your mission is to take a customer’s design handoff and transform it into a repeatable, stable manufacturing process. You will lead end-to-end NPI programs, managing everything from initial risk analysis to the final production ramp-up and handover.\n\nWhat's in it for you?\n\n * \n\n £50,000 – £55,000 basic salary (dependent on experience)\n\n * \n\n Stability & Longevity - Permanent position\n\n * \n\n Hours: 39 per week - early finish on Fridays\n\n * \n\n Company bonus scheme\n\n * \n\n 25 days holiday\n\n * \n\n My EAP\n\n * \n\n Healthshield care plan\n\n * \n\n Sick pay + much more\n\n * \n\n Benefits: Pension, holiday entitlement, healthcare, appraisals and much more\n\nKey Responsibilities:\n\n * \n\n Interpret and validate customer documentation (drawings, BOMs, specifications). Drive process development, including work instructions, tooling, and fixture requirements.\n\n * \n\n Oversee material readiness for pilot builds and validate BOM accuracy. Work with procurement and suppliers to achieve cost targets and qualify critical components.\n\n * \n\n Ensure all products meet internal and customer standards, managing First Article Inspection (FAI) and PPAP processes while leading root-cause analysis for any launch-phase issues.\n\n * \n\n Conduct readiness assessments to ensure lines are capable and stable. Define and meet key metrics like cycle time and scrap before transitioning to volume manufacturing.\n\nAbout You:\n\nTo excel in this role, you should be a technically minded leader who enjoys the challenges of manufacturing. We are looking for:\n\n * \n\n The Technical Interpreter: You can dive deep into complex build-to-print documentation, drawings, and tolerances to ensure they align with process capabilities.\n\n * \n\n The Collaborative Coordinator: You have the interpersonal skills to align diverse departments—from Sales to Quality—toward a single launch goal.\n\n * \n\n The Problem Solver: You are proactive in identifying risks through PFMEA and trials, capturing "lessons learned" to refine designs and processes.\n\n * \n\n The Results-Driven Manager: You are motivated by on-time, on-budget delivery and take pride in high customer satisfaction and repeat business.\n\nWhy join?\nYou’ll be joining a forward-thinking precision engineering business with strong values, a collaborative culture, and a clear commitment to long-term customer success. This role offers autonomy, visibility, and the opportunity to make a tangible impact in a respected aerospace, nuclear and defence supply chain.\n\nAbout us:\nEMBS Engineering is a dedicated talent specialist that partners with some of the UK's most prestigious, advanced, precision engineering companies within the Aerospace, Automotive / Motorsport, Nuclear, Oil & Gas, Green, Environmental, and FMCG industries.\n\nWe’ll offer you expert support and advice throughout the process to ensure you select and secure a career-defining role\n\nPlease note, due to the nature of the markets our client supplies into, all candidates must be UK residents, we cannot offer visa sponsorship for overseas candidate

Senior Process Chemist - Carbon Capture - Nottingham, UK - Permanent\n\nOur client is a pioneering climate-tech company developing breakthrough technology to permanently mineralise CO₂ into high-performance concrete additives. They are an innovative and ambitious startup organisation specialised in developing new calcium-based materials from carbon capture processes. Their mission is to utilise CO₂ and waste to create, stronger, cheaper and cleaner building materials.\n\nThey are seeking a top-tier Senior Process Chemist to take full ownership of the chemical performance of their process across TRL 5–8, working directly on mini-plant and pilot systems.\nYou will be responsible for ensuring that the chemistry works continuously, reproducibly, and under real industrial constraints, using rigorous inline and offline analytical data to control, diagnose, and optimise the process.\n\nKey Responsibilities\n• Own chemical performance across Pilot-plant and Demo-operations, ensuring stability, reproducibility, and scalability\n• Design and implement inline and offline analytical frameworks to monitor process behaviour, including impurity evolution, phase changes, and product quality\n• Lead development of real-time process understanding, linking analytical data to reaction mechanisms, kinetics, and process control\n• Translate lab chemistry into robust operating windows, working closely with chemical engineers on mass balance, residence time, and system dynamics\n• Drive optimisation of crystallisation, precipitation, impurity management, washing, drying, and product stability under continuous conditions\n• Identify and solve scale-up challenges including fouling, agglomeration, phase instability, impurity build-up, and process drift\n• Design and execute high-impact experimental campaigns (DoE, validation, stress testing) focused on process robustness and industrial readiness\n• Define product specifications, impurity thresholds, and structure–property relationships linked to cement performance\n• Build and refine SOPs, QC methods, and analytical protocols suitable for industrial deployment\n• Lead root-cause analysis using data and rapidly diagnose and resolve process failures\n• Work side-by-side with engineers during commissioning, operation, and troubleshooting of plant systems\n• Mentor junior scientists and enforce high standards of experimental discipline and data integrity\n• Contribute to technical strategy, IP generation, and external technical discussions\n\nEssential Requirements\n• PhD in Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, or Chemical Engineering (or equivalent industrial experience)\n• Proven experience process chemistry and scale-up in industrial or pilot environments (TRL 5–8+)\n• Deep hands-on expertise in inorganic precipitation, crystallisation, and solid-liquid processing\n• Proven experience in inline and offline analytical techniques and using data to control and optimise processes\n• Proven ability to translate chemistry into continuous, stable, and repeatable operations\n• Demonstrated success in troubleshooting complex, multi-variable process systems\n• Strong understanding of reaction engineering, process dynamics, and scale-up risks\n• Experience working in close collaboration with chemical/process engineers\n• High level of ownership, urgency, and ability to deliver under pressure in fast-moving environments\n\nDesirable Experience\n• Background in cement, concrete, fertilisers, or CO₂ mineralisation\n• Experience in CCUS, carbon removal, or industrial decarbonisation technologies\n• Familiarity with LCA, EPDs, or environmental performance frameworks\n• Experience in startup or first-of-a-kind industrial processes

Head of Wellbeing | Charitable Elderly Care Provider Qualification: Background in Wellbeing, Activities, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Social Care or related field Salary: £50,000 – £55,000 per annum (Full Time Equivalent) Location: Hybrid working remotely / Peripatetic working across multiple sites Hours: 22.5 – 28 hours per week with potential to go up to 37.5 hours per week (Monday–Friday) About the Role Compass Associates are proud to be working in partnership with a respected veterans’ charity to recruit a Head of Wellbeing for their residential care services. This is a senior, organisation-wide leadership role responsible for shaping and embedding a consistent, high-quality approach to wellbeing across multiple homes. You will provide strategic leadership, professional guidance and operational oversight to wellbeing teams, ensuring residents experience meaningful, person-centred programmes that enhance quality of life, independence and emotional wellbeing. Working closely with Home Managers, the Head of Dementia and the Head of Innovation, you will play a key role in driving continuous improvement, innovation and measurable outcomes across all wellbeing activity. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced wellbeing or therapy professional who is passionate about delivering creative, evidence-based and person-centred support within a values-led charity environment. Key Responsibilities • Provide strategic leadership and oversight of wellbeing services across all homes, • Develop and implement an organisation-wide Wellbeing Strategy aligned to organisational vision, • Ensure consistent, high-quality, person-centred wellbeing programmes, • Provide coaching, supervision and development to wellbeing teams across sites, • Work closely with Home Managers to monitor performance, training needs and outcomes, • Oversee meaningful activity programmes, social engagement and community involvement, • Lead on personalised goal setting and outcome measurement for residents, • Ensure day care and lunch club provision is aligned to wider wellbeing strategy, • Collaborate with the Head of Innovation and Head of Dementia on service development and inclusion, • Lead pilot projects and evaluate impact across services, • Develop and maintain wellbeing policies, standards and governance frameworks, • Produce reports on outcomes, engagement and service quality Requirements • Registered or experienced professional in wellbeing, OT, physiotherapy, social care or related field, • Proven leadership experience across teams or multiple sites, • Strong understanding of person-centred care, frailty and quality of life frameworks, • Experience designing, developing or improving wellbeing programmes, • Strong communication, influencing and stakeholder engagement skills, • Ability to use data and outcomes to drive service improvement, • Creative, proactive and improvement-focused mindset Desirable: • Experience in residential, nursing or dementia care settings, • Knowledge of safeguarding and regulatory frameworks (e.g. CQC), • Experience in intergenerational or community engagement programmes, • Project management or quality improvement experience Interview Process Stage 1: Informal/initial interview (virtual) Stage 2: Final interview with senior leadership team Location & Travel This is a hybrid / peripatetic role with regular travel required across multiple residential sites in Worthing, High Wycombe, Surbiton and Solihull. Flexibility to travel nationally is essential. Recommendations Compass Associates Ltd is acting as a Recruitment Consultant for this permanent vacancy. We offer a £500 voucher of your choice or a charity donation for every successful candidate recommended by you. Contact If you would like to be considered for this exciting opportunity please contact Lily Bulbeck on 02393874321 or 07921588667. Or alternatively send an up to date CV to

Assistant Director of Community Services - Charitable Provider Location: Hybrid (UK) – with regular national travel to all locations Salary: Up to £75,000 per annum plus benefits package About the Opportunity Compass Associates are proud to be partnering with Royal Star & Garter to recruit an Assistant Director of Community Services at a pivotal time in the charity’s development. This role sits at the heart of the organisation’s five-year strategy, supporting the transformation of community-based services into a scalable, evidence-led, national model of support for the UK’s Armed Forces community. The postholder will lead the design, development and delivery of innovative community programmes that expand reach, improve outcomes, and ensure services remain responsive, impactful and sustainable. The Role The Assistant Director of Community Services will lead the national Community Services programme, ensuring the development and delivery of innovative, high-quality and scalable services for veterans and their partners across the UK. Working closely with the Director of Care & Wellbeing, the postholder will shape and implement community-based models of care and support, driving both expansion and continuous improvement across a diverse portfolio of services. Key Responsibilities • Lead the development and delivery of the community services strategy, • Design and implement multi-option service models, enabling scalable, evidence-led provision, • Develop innovation pathways from design through to pilot, evaluation and scale, • Benchmark services and ensure continuous improvement aligned with veteran needs, • Provide visible, values-based leadership across all community services, • Lead and develop multidisciplinary teams including innovation, clinical leadership and data functions, • Foster a culture of collaboration, learning and continuous improvement, • Oversee therapy access, wellbeing outreach, community hubs and end-of-life pathways, • Build strong partnerships with NHS organisations, hospices, commissioners and veterans’ groups, • Represent Royal Star & Garter nationally across sector networks and events, • Support funding applications and service development bids through evidence and evaluation About You • Senior leadership experience in health, social care or community services, • Proven experience in service development, transformation or innovation, • Strong understanding of governance, safeguarding and multi-agency working, • Experience working within or alongside regulated services, • Experience leading multidisciplinary or cross-functional teams, • Strong analytical mindset with experience using data and evaluation to shape services Desirable Experience • Experience in veteran-focused, charitable or community health settings, • Track record of leading pilots, transformation or service redesign, • Master’s level qualification or equivalent professional expertise Why apply? This is a rare opportunity to shape the future of community-based care and support for the UK’s Armed Forces community. The role offers the chance to lead national transformation, build innovative service models, and make a lasting impact on the lives of veterans and their families. How to Apply For a confidential discussion, please contact Gareth Guyll Direct on 02392 417 100 or Referrals Know someone suitable for this role? We offer a £500 John Lewis voucher for every successful referral placed.

Wenham Carter is proud to be supporting a global leader in industrial software in the search for a Lead AI Engineer to join a specialist AI Investigation & Incubation team. This is a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of advanced AI research and real-world industrial application, taking emerging concepts and turning them into working, deployable systems that deliver measurable impact. The organisation operates at global scale across energy, manufacturing, and asset-intensive industries, where reliability, performance, and operational feasibility are as important as innovation. The role This is a hands-on technical leadership position focused on exploring, validating, and prototyping next-generation AI capabilities. You’ll be responsible for taking early-stage AI ideas and rapidly turning them into proof-of-concepts and pilots that can be assessed for real-world deployment. Key focus areas include: • Evaluating emerging AI technologies for practical industrial application, • Designing and building prototypes, PoCs, and pilot systems, • Developing, fine-tuning, and benchmarking advanced ML models, • Making architectural decisions around deployment, scalability, and integration, • Assessing solutions across cost, security, reliability, and operational feasibility, • Working closely with cross-functional teams to transition validated work into downstream product paths, • Communicating findings clearly to both technical and executive stakeholders, • Mentoring and supporting junior engineers in the team Key requirements • 10+ years of experience in AI/ML engineering, including at least 4 years in a technical leadership role, • Strong academic background in Computer Science, AI/ML, Engineering, or related field, • Deep hands-on experience with Python and modern ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX), • Proven track record delivering complex AI initiatives with tangible outcomes, • Experience working in industrial software, manufacturing, energy, IoT, or other asset-intensive environments is essential, • Strong experience with foundation models, multi-modal systems, agent-based architectures, and RAG techniques, • Ability to translate AI capabilities into real-world enterprise and industrial use cases, • Excellent communication skills, including engagement with senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams Why this opportunity? This is a chance to sit at the forefront of applied AI in one of the most complex and important industrial domains globally. You’ll have the freedom to explore emerging technologies, but also the responsibility to turn them into something real, scalable, and valuable. If you’re excited by building at the edge of AI - and seeing your work move beyond the lab into production environments - this is a rare opportunity to do exactly that. To stay updated on roles like this, follow me here on LinkedIn and send me a connection request.

Clinical Lead (Community) | Charitable Elderly Care Provider Qualification: Registered Clinician (OT, Physiotherapist, Nurse or equivalent) Salary: £65,000 per annum Location: UK (Hybrid working with regular travel) Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Monday–Friday) About the Role Compass Associates are proud to be working in partnership with a respected charitable organisation to recruit a Clinical Lead (Community) for a brand-new community services programme. This is a rare opportunity to take on a senior, values-driven leadership role where you will shape, develop and lead community services from the ground up. Working closely with senior leadership, you will design and implement clinical pathways across a range of services, including therapy access (OT/PT), outreach, community hubs, supported living and end-of-life care. Acting as the clinical bridge between residential services and this new community offering, you will play a key role in ensuring safe, high-quality, person-centred care from the very outset. This role would suit an experienced clinician who thrives in a start-up or evolving environment and is motivated by the opportunity to build something meaningful, rather than step into an already established service. Key Responsibilities • Provide clinical leadership and oversight across the development of new community services, • Design and implement clinical pathways and standards from the ground up, • Lead on clinical governance, safeguarding and risk management frameworks, • Support pilot programmes, service launch and ongoing development, • Provide supervision and support to therapy teams (OT/PT) as services grow, • Work collaboratively with internal teams and external healthcare partners, • Contribute to evaluation design, outcomes tracking and continuous improvement, • Act as the clinical voice within programme design and strategic discussions Requirements • Registered clinician (OT, Physiotherapist, Nurse or equivalent), • Significant experience in community-based clinical practice, • Strong background in clinical governance, safeguarding and risk management, • Experience supporting or supervising multidisciplinary teams, • Excellent communication and leadership skills, • Comfortable working in a developing or evolving service environment Desirable: • Experience in service development, pilots or new service mobilisation, • Experience in end-of-life care, rehabilitation or therapy services, • Experience within charity, community or purpose-led organisations, • Advanced clinical practice or leadership training Interview Process Stage 1: Informal/initial interview (virtual) Stage 2: Final interview with senior leadership team Location & Travel This is a hybrid role with regular travel required across services in Worthing, Surbiton, High Wycombe and Solihull. The remit of the role may expand as further as community hubs are established. Candidates based within the South East or Midlands, with good access to major transport links, will be well placed for the travel requirements of the role. Flexibility to travel nationally is essential. Recommendations Compass Associates Ltd is acting as a Recruitment Consultant for this permanent vacancy. We offer a £500 voucher of your choice or a charity donation for every successful candidate recommended by you. Contact If you would like to be considered for this exciting opportunity please contact Lily Bulbeck on 02393874321 or 07921588667. Or alternatively send an up to date CV to

The ideal candidate will have a PhD in Chemistry or a related field and demonstrable experience in process chemistry and scale-up. A pioneering climate-tech company is seeking a Senior Process Chemist to oversee chemical performance across pilot systems.

A climate-tech R&D company in Nottingham seeks a Process Operator to lead commissioning efforts at their pilot plant.