Endeavour Recruitment has an exciting opportunity for a Quality Manager to join our market leading client based in Wembley on a permanent basis.

The selected Quality Manager will Implement and maintain our client’s Quality Management System in accordance with BS ENISO 9001 and liaise with the Quality Management Department, internal and external customers as well as suppliers as appropriate with regard to Quality issues.

As a Quality Manager, your responsibilities will include the following tasks:

• Act as the primary contact with regard to Quality performance
• Administer the Fault Analysis Reporting process and ensure that the reports are distributed to management and monitor the completion of the corrective and preventive action of each entry.
• Manage the internal and external audit process and assist with audits where appropriate and/or necessary.
• To ensure that the Quality Systems are harmonised and kept up to date.
• Reviewer of all documented processes and ensures alliance with Corporate process and adherence to corporate guidelines.
• Manage the systems of reporting (KPIs and other) for providing data to the Quality Management department.
• Monthly presentation to management reporting on Quality issues and identifying corrective actions required. Supplying full details and reasons for any failings.

Skills and experience required:

• Degree in relevant subject (ideally Quality Assurance Management otherwise Material Engineering/ Manufacturing) or equivalent
• 3 years’ professional experience
• Evidence of training and specific experience for the certification standards that the company owns or intends to achieve.  (ISO 9001, ISO 14001, CQM, Audit specialist)
• 8D, Fault Analysis Reporting, 5 Why’s Technique
• Handling of relevant Customer affairs in regards of Quality Management
• Handling of relevant Supplier Quality Management affairs

Send us your CV or get in touch for more details.

A permanent opportunity to be part of a Management System team has arisen with our Buckinghamshire client:

We are looking for an enthusiastic Management System Administrator with excellent organisation and communication skills.

The selected Management System Administrator will be helping our client with external and internal audits and supporting the maintenance of our client’s ISO 9001 (QMS) and ISO 27001 (ISMS) accreditation, while applying continual improvement to existing processes and work instructions from around the company.

Required skills and experience:

•             English language qualification (equivalent to GSCE grade B or above).

•             In-depth knowledge of ISO 9001.

•             Change/version control.

•             Excellent verbal and written communication.

•             Good Word and Excel skills.

•             Experience in auditing.

Apply by sending us your CV or get in touch for more info on this exciting new opportunity!

Endeavour has a fantastic career opportunity for an enthusiastic IT administrator who will be joining the team of a UK based manufacturer of software for the telecommunications and speech processing market with international scope, based in Buckinghamshire.

The successful IT Administrator will join a busy IT department and will have excellent organisation and communication skills, with an eye for detail.

The role of the IT Administrator will be biased slightly towards Database/MS NAV and CRM management, general network management/admin including backups/restores. ISO 9001/27001/documentation and managing ACR’s(Access Control Requests), test backup/restore, log checks and monitor, updating IT process/manuals, stock control, auditing software/hardware/network.

Required skills and experience:

• You hold a Business or Computer study degree.
• You are comfortable with Documentation workflow.
• You have good fundamentals about networking
• Ideally have at least 2 years’ experience in similar role.
• You have basic understanding of quality control.

Required Technical background:

Product knowledge or understanding of:

•          Backup Exec

•          Veeam

•          Cisco/Sonicwall firewall

•          vSphere – VM management

•          MS Active Directory management

•          Database MS SQL experience

•          Amazon AWS

•          MS Azure

•          Linux admin

•          Web servers; IIS, Apache and nginX

•          Datastores; storage backbends and NAS/DAS

•          CRM

•          NAV

•          Helpdesk support

•          SLA and KPI’s (performance metrics)

Please apply or get in touch ASAP for further details on this exciting new opportunity.

We have an opportunity for a Quality Assurance Engineer to join our client based in Chertsey, Surrey. The successful QA Engineer will be supporting and authoring project quality documentation, conduct final verification of products, conduct mechanical, electronic, and electrical inspections, and review test plans and documentation. Salary up to £45k.

To be successful in this Quality Assurance Engineer role you must have the following –

• Understanding of Quality Assurance methodologies, tools and processes
• Understanding ISO9001 and TickIT
• Knowledge of Corrective Action and Root Cause Analysis methods
• Quality Metrics
• Software and hardware system lifecycles

Please apply as soon as possible to be considered for this Quality Assurance Engineer role

Lead Software Engineer Needed! Endeavour Recruitment is seeking an experienced Lead Software Engineer for their client in Leicester.  The Lead Software Engineer is required to work closely with the project manager.  Primary responsibility will be the delivery of the technical scope of projects through the full lifecycle.  Salary up to £50K plus benefits.

Our client is based in Leicester, the largest city in the East Midlands.  It is home to manufacturing, engineering and IT industries.  With an excellent infrastructure of road and rail links this makes Leicester accessible from many regions.

Benefits:

•         Pension Contribution of 6%
•         Health Care Cash Plan
•         Dental Plan
•         Travel Insurance
•         Critical Illness Cover
•         Home Insurance
•         Holiday Trading Scheme
•         Cycle to Work Scheme
•         Discounts on Shopping, Cinema, Days Out

Responsibilities:

The Lead Software Engineer will manage teams of software engineers and testers to deliver projects to requisite quality standards on time and within budget. There will also be responsibility for the delivery of the technical scope of the project throughout the complete project lifecycle.  This is not a “hands on development role” but is about management of teams, resolving issues arising and guiding where necessary.

Working Knowledge Required:

•         Minimum of 5 Years in Full Software Development Lifecycle
•         Minimum of 3 Years in a Technical Lead role
•         Experience of Designing & Implementing High Availability Systems
•         Analysing Requirements & Compiling Functional Design
•         UML
•         Agile, Waterfall and V methodologies
•         SQL
•         C# - ASP.Net – Visual Studio
•         Experience of working in ISO9001 environment
•         Onsite Testing experience
•         Degree in Computer Science or related subject

Additional Competencies:

•         Business Intelligence reporting and associated dashboard design capability.
•         Good working knowledge of current software legislative requirements.
•         Previous experience in either Logistics, Material Handling or Airports or Manufacturing.
•         Eligible for, or holds current SC clearance

If you believe you have the right experience and previous track record to successfully deliver in this role, then please apply quickly in order to be shortlisted.  

Endeavour Recruitment has a new opportunity for an experienced Lead Software Engineer. Working closely with the project manager, primary responsibility will be the delivery of the technical scope of projects throughout the full life cycle.

The Lead Software Engineer will manage teams of software engineers and testers to deliver projects to requisite quality standards on time and within budget. There will also be responsibility for the delivery of the technical scope of the project throughout the complete project lifecycle.  This is not a “hands on development role” but is about management of teams, resolving issues arising and guiding where necessary.

Essential Skills:

• Minimum of 5 Years in Full Software Development Lifecycle
• Minimum of 3 Years in a Technical Lead role
• Experience of Designing & Implementing High Availability Systems
• Analysing Requirements & Compiling Functional Design
• UML
• Agile, Waterfall and V methodologies
• SQL
• C# - ASP.Net – Visual Studio
• Experience of working in ISO9001 environment
• Onsite Testing experience
• Degree in Computer Science or related subject

Additional Competencies:

• Business Intelligence reporting and associated dashboard design capability.
• Good working knowledge of current software legislative requirements.
• Previous experience in either Logistics, Material Handling or Airports or Manufacturing.
• Eligible for, or holds current SC clearance

Applicants are invited to apply as soon as possible in order to be included in the shortlist.

Endeavour Recruitment has an excellent long term contract opportunity for a Software Test Analyst with extensive Testing experience including Hands on Testing, Test Analysis, Test Management and client facing. Applicants are required to be eligible for Security Clearance.

Role:

To test and develop software across multiple projects ensuring that all output meets defined functional and non-functional requirements and that all defects are effectively managed and resolved.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure that all functional and non-functional design requirements are correctly translated into test cases/scenarios.
• Ensure the configuration control of the hardware and software test environment is managed.
• To perform the required testing and accurately record/report test results.
• Perform testing activities within the project budget and on time.
• Ensure that identified defects are properly identified and reviewed.
• To read the requisite design documentation and gain a full understanding of the functional and non-functional project requirements.
• To independently decompose the system design requirements into logical units for testing purposes.
• To create the test strategies, plans and specifications and include detailed test cases to validate positive/negative scenarios for each logical unit.
• Configure environments as needed to complete assigned testing.
• To work within customer environments performing and recording tests.
• To execute the detailed test cases and maintain the test records with associated results/configurations.
• Provide test summary reports to the Project Team.
• To provide necessary support to the software development team by resolving queries relating to identified defects.
• To advise on the selection of any test software or tools required for testing.
• Monitor and update defect reports including defect closeout.
• Deliver released software from development/test to customer sites and complete final User Acceptance Testing at the clients facility.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Knowledge of Airline/Handler baggage operational processes
• Working knowledge of current legislative requirements as applied to software products (eg graphical user interface standards).
• A working knowledge of software release, configuration management systems.
• A working knowledge of installing/configuring applications on Windows/Unix/Linux server environments
• Experience of using SQL to query database table content (preferably Oracle)
• Experience of working in an ISO 9001/Tickit environment.
• Experience of performing similar roles in airports/logistics or materials handling.
• Working in process control, warehouse automation, industrial control logistics or a similar business area.
• At least 3 years' experience in performing Factory and User Acceptance Testing role.
• Testing of mission critical high availability systems.
• Experience of generating test scenarios from client's brief and decomposing into functional tests.
• Degree in an engineering or computer science related discipline.
• Minimum of ISEB foundation certificate for software testing.

Key Competencies:

• Ability to plan and organise multiple workload requirements.
• Ability to work and manage defined deadlines within programme and budget.
• Able to work as part of a team and independently.
• Strong communication skills, both written and oral.

Please get in touch ASAP for consideration for this not to be missed contract opportunity.

Endeavour Recruitment is seeking an experienced Technical Project Manager.   Candidates should have at least 5 years’ experience working in a similar role.  A background in software development is essential. This contract is based in Leicester for 12 months at a rate of £320 to £350 per day.  Applicants must be eligible for Security Clearance.

The ideal candidate will have worked in a similar role in the manufacturing, automation or airport industry.

Essential Candidate Experience:

• Must come from a software development background
• PLC based control systems
• Profibus
• AS-I Networks
• Lead control system engineering
• Must have worked in an ISO9001 environment
• Familiarity with corporate libraries and source code

If you believe you have the right experience and previous track record to successfully deliver in this role, then please apply quickly in order to be shortlisted.   

Endeavour Recruitment has a new opportunity for an experienced Lead Software Analyst Programmer. The successful candidate will manage a team of software engineers to deliver projects on time and within budget.   Working closely with the project manager, primary responsibility will be the delivery of the technical scope of the project throughout the full life cycle.   Rate £325-£350 per day.

Part of the role will involve change management, risk assessments, liaising with client and suppliers, scoping the project, supervising and allocation of software engineering work.   Candidates must be eligible for or already have Security Clearance.

Essential Skills:

• Minimum of 5 Years in Full Software Development Lifecycle
• Minimum of 3 Years in a Technical Lead role
• Experience of Designing & Implementing High Availability Systems
• Analysing Requirements & Compiling Functional Design
• UML
• Agile, Waterfall and V methodologies
• SQL
• C# - ASP.Net – Visual Studio
• Experience of working in ISO9001 environment
• Onsite Testing experience
• Degree in Computer Science or related subject

Additional Competencies:

• Business Intelligence reporting and associated dashboard design capability.
• Good working knowledge of current software legislative requirements.
• Previous experience in either Logistics, Material Handling or Airports or Manufacturing.

Applicants are invited to apply as soon as possible in order to be included in the shortlist.