Read authentic reviews from customers, clients and employees.
Find top rated recruiters on the GR Marketplace
 

Astute People Ltd

4.69
from 8516 reviews
 
Jobs
HSE Advisor
CONTRACT
  • TERMS: contract
  • START DATE: 11/11/24
  • END DATE: 7/11/25
  • PAY RATE: $400.0 /DAY

Project Site Scheduler
CONTRACT
  • TERMS: contract
  • START DATE: 12/11/23
  • END DATE: 12/12/24
  • PAY RATE: $500.0 /DAY
Project Site Scheduler Immediate start Location - Essex Day rate - £450.00 to £500.00 per day (Outside IR35) Duration - 12 months The role We are currently recruiting for a Project Site Scheduler to join a fast paced EPC contractor on a new build waste to energy project based in Essex.

Electrical Design Engineer
PERMANENT
  • TERMS: permanent

Electrical Project Engineer

Water Industry

Havant

£40,000 DOE

 

Introduction

We are currently recruiting for an Electrical Project Engineer to join a leading provider of Water engineering services and solutions across the South. They are looking for an Electrical Project Engineer to join their small but established team providing expertise in process, mechanical, electrical and ICA solutions whilst delivering projects all at stages of the cycle. Working as the Electrical Project Engineer, you will work as part of a core team tin the delivery of a busy portfolio of robust engineering solutions across various wastewater and clean water contracts in the South.

 

The Job

Working as the Electrical Project Engineer, you will be responsible for…
  • Working as part of the office-based design team with regular visits to site troubleshooting, checking and managing potential and live projects.
  • Driving successful project delivery, working alongside the Project Manager planning, establishing and coordinating the projects, carrying out electrical design works and ensuring projects are delivered to client specifications on time and in budget.
  • Collaborate with project teams to maintain profitability and efficient methods of work
  • Complete electrical designs and develop specifications for internal and external equipments required for each project.
  • Specify job requirements, parts and materials needed to enable projects to be scoped for tender and on-site delivery.
  • Survey electrical systems and plans.
  • Project budget and programme management.
  • Compliance with NICEIC requirements.
  • Manage all elements of the project delivery from initial site surveys, proposal preparations through to handover. This includes costings, proposals, specifications, ordering, fault finding, testing and commissioning.
  • Any other duties as required.

This is a field-based position requiring a flexible approach to work.

 

The Candidate

To be considered for this position candidates will be expected to have a background working in a site-based Electrical Engineer or Project Engineer position ideally within the water industry with a relevant engineering qualification to degree level (or equivalent) to back it up.

Candidates should have strong CAD expertise as well as

Candidates should have strong CAD knowledge as well as demonstrable success delivering projects and a proven track record working directly with clients on project designs and coordination.

 

Due to a high level of travel to various sites throughout this role, candidates must hold a valid full UK driving licence and be flexible in their working hours.

 

 

What’s on Offer.
  • Basic salary £40,000 DOE
  • Competitive Package
  • 28 days holiday (incl bank holidays)

 

 

 

 

How to apply

To apply, please call Gemma Nixon 02392 222 964 or send a copy of your CV to [email protected]

OCS Administrator
PERMANENT
  • TERMS: permanent

Reporting to the Operational Control Support Team Leader, your role as OCS Administrator will be to maintain a positive and friendly company image by acting as the first line of contact to visitors, customers, and vendors in person, online, and via telephone. To ensure a good flow of office procedures you will work alongside the Service Coordinator and Project Controller and support the Service and Projects departments, carrying out common office duties.

 

Key Responsibilities

  • Planning maintenance visits using excel and resource planning tool

  • Producing weekly/monthly customer reports

  • Setting up of projects

  • Order handling within SAP

  • Entering information into CRM

  • Quotation creation

  • Invoicing and managing customer billing plans

  • Welcoming guests organising client lunches

  • Travel Booking

  • Raising purchase requisitions

  • Supporting with facilities

 

Required Qualifications, Skills and experience

  • Must have a minimum of three to five year’s experience working in an office environment

  • Strong attention to detail with the ability to work without supervision

  • Excellent time management skills

  • Exceptional communication and customer service skills

  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office

  • SAP knowledge (essential)

  • Strong prioritisation and organisation skills with the ability to handle confidential information

  • Strong record keeping skills

  • Good time management skills with the ability to multitask

  • High personal drive for continuous improvement

  • Potential and desire to progress and develop

 

What you can expect from us:

  • 37 hours per week (Monday to Friday), with flexibility required to meet customer and business needs.

  • After initial training period, hybrid working will be available, from home and our office in Aberdeen. There will be times for which your presence in the office is required, you should therefore live within commutable distance.

  • A permanent contract with a competitive salary, depending on experience.

  • Benefits, including pension with company contribution, death in service cover, staff bonus scheme, healthcare, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays with increments based on length of service.

  • Exciting challenges within a global organisation that encourages a high degree of individual responsibility, with excellent career opportunities.

  • Innovative and advanced high-technology products and services.

 

Due to the nature of our business, please be advised at the offer of employment stage we will carry out Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), Education and Employment checks on all candidates.


Field Service Engineer
PERMANENT
  • TERMS: permanent

Generator Engineer - Kent
PERMANENT
  • TERMS: permanent

Service Engineers – Join a Leading Name in Critical Power

If you’re passionate about critical power solutions and want to help us raise the bar even higher, we’d love to hear from you.

At P&I, we don’t just provide critical power solutions—we deliver peace of mind. Since 1999, we’ve grown from a small business into one of the UK’s leading independent suppliers of generators and UPS systems. Our mission is simple: to ensure our customers have power when they need it most.

We’re excited about what lies ahead as we continue to grow, evolve, and make a meaningful impact on our industry and community. Joining P&I means being part of a team where your expertise is valued, and you’re empowered to succeed.

The Role

As a Service Engineer, you’ll play a vital role in ensuring our customers’ critical power needs are met. You’ll be responsible for servicing, maintaining, and supporting critical power equipment at customer sites, ensuring systems run smoothly and efficiently.

Your responsibilities will include:

  • Servicing, maintaining, testing, and repairing generators, UPS, and related systems.

  • Conducting inspections, site surveys, and load bank testing.

  • Supporting installations and commissioning of critical power equipment.

  • Planning and supervising on-site work, always prioritising safety.

  • Providing technical support and completing accurate service reports.

About You

We’re looking for an experienced and motivated professional with:

  • Experience of servicing, maintaining and fault diagnostics on Generators and other critical power equipment

  • An engineering qualification (NVQ Level 3, City & Guilds or similar)

  • A self-motivated individual with a can-do attitude who is willing to roll up their sleeves

  • Full UK driving license

Why Join P&I?

We understand the value of our team, and we’re committed to offering:

  • Competitive pay and benefits that reflect your skills and experience.

  • Ongoing training and development to support your career progression.

  • Company Van and laptop

  • Enhanced holiday

  • Gym and fitness privileges

  • Health and Wellbeing benefits including on demand GP services

  • Employee retail discount schemes  

  • A professional and supportive environment where you can thrive.

This is a fantastic opportunity to make an impact in a dynamic and growing industry while developing your skills in a company that’s committed to your success.

If you’re ready to take the next step in your career, apply now and join us in shaping the future of critical power.

Service Engineers – Join a Leading Name in Critical Power

If you’re passionate about critical power solutions and want to help us raise the bar even higher, we’d love to hear from you.

At P&I, we don’t just provide critical power solutions—we deliver peace of mind. Since 1999, we’ve grown from a small business into one of the UK’s leading independent suppliers of generators and UPS systems. Our mission is simple: to ensure our customers have power when they need it most.

We’re excited about what lies ahead as we continue to grow, evolve, and make a meaningful impact on our industry and community. Joining P&I means being part of a team where your expertise is valued, and you’re empowered to succeed.

The Role

As a Service Engineer, you’ll play a vital role in ensuring our customers’ critical power needs are met. You’ll be responsible for servicing, maintaining, and supporting critical power equipment at customer sites, ensuring systems run smoothly and efficiently.

Your responsibilities will include:

  • Servicing, maintaining, testing, and repairing generators, UPS, and related systems.

  • Conducting inspections, site surveys, and load bank testing.

  • Supporting installations and commissioning of critical power equipment.

  • Planning and supervising on-site work, always prioritising safety.

  • Providing technical support and completing accurate service reports.

About You

We’re looking for an experienced and motivated professional with:

  • Experience of servicing, maintaining and fault diagnostics on Generators and other critical power equipment

  • An engineering qualification (NVQ Level 3, City & Guilds or similar)

  • A self-motivated individual with a can-do attitude who is willing to roll up their sleeves

  • Full UK driving license

Why Join P&I?

We understand the value of our team, and we’re committed to offering:

  • Competitive pay and benefits that reflect your skills and experience.

  • Ongoing training and development to support your career progression.

  • Company Van and laptop

  • Enhanced holiday

  • Gym and fitness privileges

  • Health and Wellbeing benefits including on demand GP services

  • Employee retail discount schemes  

  • A professional and supportive environment where you can thrive.

This is a fantastic opportunity to make an impact in a dynamic and growing industry while developing your skills in a company that’s committed to your success.

If you’re ready to take the next step in your career, apply now and join us in shaping the future of critical power.


Project Engineer
PERMANENT
  • TERMS: permanent

Astute’s Power team is exclusively partnering with a leading timber manufacturer to recruit a Project Engineer based in Scotland with the ability to carry out national travel. 

This crucial Project Engineer role comes with a competitive salary and benefits.

If you’re a Project Engineer with experience in engineering solutions for biomass systems and are looking to work with an organisation that values sustainability and innovation, submit your CV to apply today.

Responsibilities and duties

Reporting to the Customer Engineering Manager, you will:

  • Develop and improve maintenance plans and tasks to ensure maximum plant availability.
  • Liaise with field service engineers and site personnel to understand and optimise maintenance requirements.
  • Analyse boiler performance data, diagnose issues, and provide technical solutions for performance improvement.
  • Perform root cause analysis and implement preventative measures to enhance operational reliability.
  • Maintain and enhance the Pirana system for industrial heat and installed assets at customer sites.
  • Provide guidance and support to the sales team regarding technical queries for new and existing projects.
  • Assist with technical reporting, including system performance and compliance reporting.
  • Proactively comply with health, safety, and environmental regulations, ensuring the upkeep of certifications and compliance standards.

Professional qualifications

We are looking for someone with the following:

  • A Bachelor’s degree in a relevant engineering discipline (or equivalent qualifications with relevant experience).
  • Proven experience in a maintenance or reliability role, preferably in a relevant industry such as biomass or industrial heat systems.
  • Experience in troubleshooting and providing customer support, particularly in a field service context.
  • Strong technical skills with the ability to analyse performance data and implement practical solutions.
  • A full UK driving licence, with the flexibility to travel across the UK and stay away from home as needed.

Personal skills

The Project Engineer role would suit someone who:

  • Is a collaborative team player, capable of developing constructive relationships with customers, contractors, and internal teams.
  • Demonstrates strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
  • Possesses excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
  • Can make confident decisions and think creatively to resolve issues.

Salary and benefits of the Project Engineer role

  • Competitive salary (depending on experience)
  • Company benefits package
  • Opportunities for career development and professional growth

INDPOW


Solar Electrical Installer - Midlands
PERMANENT
  • TERMS: permanent

Commercial Manager
PERMANENT
  • TERMS: permanent

Job Title:              Commercial Manager - Pre-Contract Location:              Warrington, Cheshire + Hybrid Working Arrangement  Compensation:    Competitive + Benefits Role Type:           Full time / Permanent  Role ID:               SF59046

 

At Cavendish Nuclear we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Commercial Manager (Pre-Contract) at our Warrington site.

 

The role

As a Commercial Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. This role offers an excellent opportunity to support business growth across our Nuclear Services and Civil Decommissioning business streams, through the provision of pre-contract commercial support.

 

Day-to-day, you’ll act as Commercial Lead on agreed bids (within the bid team). You'll cover a range of offerings from major projects to service and consultancy within civil nuclear industry, supplementing existing pre-contract capability within the business streams.

 

  • Provision of commercial and contractual support and advice across designated projects, working closely with bid teams.
  • Ensure the winning of good business – successful tenders which balance risk and reward.
  • Lead ensuring that any submissions are compliant with corporate governance procedures.
  • Negotiate customer contracts and work closely with Procurement to ensure flow down of key terms.
  • Derive commercial solutions to bid requirements such as commercial tender query responses, KPIs, pricing schedules.
  • Generate bids showing appropriate margin returns with credible delivery plans.
  • Agree arrangements with customers and partners, such as NDAs and MOUs, liaising closely with Legal and taking a leading role in establishing Joint Ventures where applicable
  • Support analysis of competitors, customers, and supply chain to ensure winning tenders

 

This position involves occasional travel/working across a range of internal and customer sites, as a requirement of the role.

 

This role is full time, thirty-seven hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with three days in our Warrington office and two days working from home. 

 

Essential experience of the Commercial Manager

  • Experience of working within highly regulated industries
  • Experience of NEC3/4 contracts, preferably the ECC (Engineering & Construction Contract)
  • Experience with Government customers / PCRs (Public Contract Regulations)
  • Customer facing experience (unable to consider anyone with subcontractor / supplier facing experience only)
  • Significant pre-contract experience, capable of autonomously leading bids from a commercial perspective
  • Sound understanding of contract terms and conditions / contract law, contract and commercial risk management, and estimating/financial aspects of bids

 

Qualifications for the Commercial Manager (Pre-Contract)

  • Quantity Surveying or Business related degree or equivalent qualifications

 

We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

 

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) security clearance for this role. 

 

What we offer 

  • Generous holiday allowance 
  • Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
  • Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
  • Employee share scheme 
  • Employee shopping savings portal
  • Payment of Professional Fees
  • Reservists in the armed forces receive ten-days special paid leave 
  • Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
  • ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
  • Autonomy to perform the role
  • Opportunities to develop your career

 

Cavendish Nuclear

As a leader within the UK nuclear industry, Cavendish Nuclear, part of Babcock International Group, provides a comprehensive range of critical nuclear solutions in clean energy, defence and civil new build and decommissioning projects. Together, we’re innovating to make nuclear safer, faster and cost-effective across the nuclear energy life cycle. Your career with us could take you anywhere within Babcock International Group – from Canada, the USA to Japan. Work with us to create a safe and secure world, together. 


Rework Technician
PERMANENT
  • TERMS: permanent
Rework Technician - Electronics Portsmouth £23k + Benefits     Introduction Astute are supporting a Portsmouth based client who are a leader in the provision of the design and manufacture of life critical safety systems. With a structured growth plan in place, an exciting vacancy exists for a Rework Technician to be responsible for enhancing the factory floor quality by product fault finding, analysing product yield data and confirming build processes.                     Roles & Responsibilities Reporting to the Maintenance Manager you will be responsible for:
  • To be aware of levels of the defective product and take proactive measures to communicate, reduce and repair when appropriate and thus maintain rework at agreed WIP levels.
  • To be fully aware of yield trends gathered from SPC charts and to highlight anomalies and probable causes to supervision.
  • To feedback issues arising and offer advice, support and solutions where appropriate.
  • To report events in a clear and concise manner, verbal or written, to interested parties when circumstances dictate.
    Skills & Qualifications We are looking for someone with the following:
  • A desire to achieve BTEC/ Level 4 or equivalent qualification in electronic engineering
  • Must stay up to date with the latest rework techniques and appropriate analysis tools to assist in improvement activities
  • Identify areas, equipment, processes and procedures within the business for continuous improvement, make recommendations and work on improvement projects.
    Salary & Package What’s on offer for this exciting role:
  • £23k basic
  • Bonus
  • Share incentive
  • Training and Development
  • Healthcare Incentives, Pension, Life Assurance
    How to apply? To apply for this opportunity simply send a copy of your up-to-date CV and covering letter to [email protected] or call 023 93 911 007 to speak to Simon Cheung who can tell you more.     INDREN