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Manufacturing Jobs Across the North West, Wales and UK-Wide

We're always recruiting for production, maintenance, quality, skilled trades, warehouse and management roles. Browse what's available now, or register with us to hear about new roles first.

We don't always advertise every role publicly.

Many of our vacancies are filled through our registered candidate pool before they ever hit a job board.

Here are the types of roles we recruit for most frequently.

If any of these match your skills, register with us now so you're first in line.

roles we are regularly asked to fill

Production Supervisor Location: Various — Cheshire, Greater Manchester, North Wales Salary: £30,000 — £40,000 Type: Permanent

We regularly recruit production supervisors for food, FMCG, chemical and general manufacturers across the North West and Wales.

If you've got experience managing a team on a production floor and can handle shift rotations, we want to hear from you.

Maintenance Technician (Multi-skilled) Location: Various — Cheshire, Warrington, Deeside, Greater Manchester Salary: £35,000 — £48,000 (depending on skills and shifts) Type: Permanent

Multi-skilled maintenance technicians are the most in-demand manufacturing role in the North West right now.

If you've got mechanical and electrical skills, fault-finding ability and experience in a manufacturing environment, your phone should be ringing. Let's make sure it does

Quality Inspector Location: Various — Cheshire, North West, North Wales Salary: £28,000 — £38,000 Type: Permanent

Quality inspectors and quality engineers are needed across aerospace, automotive, food, pharma and general manufacturing sites.

If you've got experience with ISO 9001, AS9100, IATF 16949 or BRCGS standards, we'd like to talk.

Welder (MIG/TIG/MMA) Location: Various — Cheshire, Greater Manchester, North Wales, Lancashire Salary: £28,000 — £42,000 (coded welders at the higher end) Type: Permanent

Coded and experienced welders are in short supply across the North West.

Whether you're MIG, TIG, MMA or multi-process, and whether you work in structural steel, sheet metal, pipe or fabrication, we've got manufacturers looking for you.

Health & Safety Advisor Location: Various — North West and Wales Salary: £35,000 — £48,000 Type: Permanent

Every manufacturing site needs H&S.

If you hold NEBOSH or IOSH qualifications and have experience in a manufacturing, production or industrial setting, we regularly recruit H&S advisors and officers for sites across our patch.

Warehouse Supervisor Location: Various — Cheshire, Warrington, Greater Manchester Salary: £28,000 — £35,000 Type: Permanent

Warehouse supervisors who understand manufacturing environments (not just retail distribution) are always in demand.

If you've managed a team, handled goods in/out, and know your way around a WMS, we'd like to chat.

CNC Machinist / Programmer Location: Various — Cheshire, North Wales, Lancashire Salary: £30,000 — £42,000 Type: Permanent

CNC machinists and programmers with experience on Fanuc, Siemens, Heidenhain or Mazak controls are consistently hard to find.

If you can set, operate and programme to tight tolerances, your skills are very much in demand

Fabricator Location: Various — North West and Wales Salary: £28,000 — £40,000 Type: Permanent

Sheet metal fabricators, structural steel fabricators and heavy plate workers are needed across the region.

If you can read drawings, work to tolerance and you're comfortable with MIG or TIG, we want to know about you.

Production Operative / Machine Operator Location: Various — Cheshire, Greater Manchester, North Wales Salary: £23,000 — £30,000 (plus shift premiums) Type: Permanent

We regularly recruit production operatives and machine operators for food, packaging, plastics, pharma and general manufacturing sites.

These roles often come with shift premiums that take the actual earnings well above the base salary.

Operations Manager / Production Manager Location: Various — North West and Wales Salary: £45,000 — £65,000 Type: Permanent

Senior manufacturing management roles don't come up every day, and when they do, they go fast.

If you're an experienced operations or production manager looking for your next challenge, register with us so you're on our radar when the right opportunity lands.

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