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ASSEMBLY TECHNICIAN

Position; ASSEMBLY TECHNICIAN

Location; Near Milton Park, Didcot

Salary; £15 – 18.00 per hour

Planet recruitment are working with an innovative, forward-thinking, employee engaged company who require an Assembly Technician to join their exisiting team on a long term temporary assignment which could lead to a permanent role for the right candidate.

The role;

The primary role of the Technician is to repair devices of the whole product range along with providing technical support function to customers & internal teams. The technician is reporting to the Team Leader Technician, who will ensure all training on company products is given and all procedures are explained.

We require someone with good assembly knowledge who can undertake small repairs on devices.

Main responsibilities;

The primary objective of In-house Technician is to perform in-house diagnosis, servicing, repair and testing of customer returned products using established procedures.
Key responsibilities include performing maintenance, testing and calibration of repaired products, troubleshoot and providing recommended resolutions, preparing clear quotes and repair reports.
Logistic coordination for service devices: custom clearance paperwork
Other tasks and responsibilities as assigned

Required;

Strong knowledge of measurement units and electronic parts
Ease with computers: Microsoft office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook)
Professional and effective communications skills, working as a team member.
Fluent English is required.
2 years of experience in device repairs.
Assembly knowledge, use of hand tools, small component rework.

Commutable locations;

Abingdon, Didcot, Wallingford, Oxford, Bicester, Wantage, Newbury, Wantage, Grove

Key words;

Production, assembly, testing, diagnostics, calibration, repairs,

Planet Recruitment acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. Planet Recruitment is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

By applying for this role your details will be submitted to Planet Recruitment. Our Candidate Privacy Information Statement explains how we will use your information.

Only candidates with the relevant skills and experience will be contacted after application, if you do not hear back from us within 7 days you have unfortunately been unsuccessful in your application.

Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a person’s gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits, qualifications and abilities to perform the duties of the position.

Warehouse Operative (Polish Speaking)

August 16, 2024/in Industrial Didcot, Oxfordshire Permanent Warehouse, picking, packing, /by Darren Fuller

Position; Warehouse Operative (Polish Speaking)

Location; Didcot, Oxfordshire

Salary; £11.50 – £12 per hour

Our fast-growing client is a seeking a hardworking and committed individual to join the team as a Warehouse Operative.

The role;

The successful candidate will be responsible for handling all warehouse duties within the business and ensuring a smooth process to the day-to-day responsibilities.

Main responsibilities;

Picking and packing orders
Picking orders with warehouse and loading stock data onto the system
Managing incoming goods and out going goods
Stock taking, manaigng deliveries and orders coming through via company system
Responding to customers both face to face and on email/telephone
Happy to work more hours if required

About you;

You will be a hardworking individual ideally with previous warehouse experienced. The successful candidate will need strong organisation skills and strong work ethic.

Required;

Excellent communication skills
Previous warehouse experience
Hardworking individual
Team player
Polish native or fluent

Commutable locations;

Abingdon, Didcot, Wallingford, Cholsey, Milton, Oxford and Wantage

Key words;

Warehouse, Operative, Goods in & out, Picker & Packer, Production

INDWARE

Planet Recruitment acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. Planet Recruitment is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

By applying for this role your details will be submitted to Planet Recruitment. Our Candidate Privacy Information Statement explains how we will use your information.

Only candidates with the relevant skills and experience will be contacted after application, if you do not hear back from us within 7 days you have unfortunately been unsuccessful in your application.

Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a person’s gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits, qualifications and abilities to perform the duties of the position.

Temporary Receptionist

August 14, 2024/in Commercial Didcot, Oxfordshire Temporary /by Darren Fuller

Position; Temporary Receptionist

Location; Milton Park, (Didcot area) Oxfordshire

Salary; £11.50 – £12.00 per hour

Planet Recruitment have registered an exciting opportunity for a Temporary Receptionist to help cover for holidays within our clients current team.

Main responsibilities;

Serving visitors by greeting, welcoming, and directing them appropriately.
Notifies companies of visitor arrivals, and informing visitors by answering or referring inquiries.
Maintains security and telecommunications system.
Directs visitors by maintaining employee and department directories.
Maintains security by following procedures, monitoring logbook, and issuing visitor badges.
Keeps a safe and clean reception area at all times.

Required / Qualifications;

Telephone Skills
Verbal Communication
Listening
Professionalism
Customer focussed
Organisation
Supply Management

Commutable locations;

Didcot, Abingdon, Milton, Harwell, Wantage, Grove, Wallingford

INDCOM

Planet Recruitment acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. Planet Recruitment is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

By applying for this role your details will be submitted to Planet Recruitment. Our Candidate Privacy Information Statement explains how we will use your information.

Only candidates with the relevant skills and experience will be contacted after application, if you do not hear back from us within 7 days you have unfortunately been unsuccessful in your application.

Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a person’s gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits, qualifications and abilities to perform the duties of the position.

Temporary Receptionist

August 13, 2024/in Commercial Didcot, Oxfordshire Temporary /by Darren Fuller

Position; Temporary Receptionist

Location; Milton Park, (Didcot area) Oxfordshire

Salary; £11.50 – £12.00 per hour

Planet Recruitment have registered an exciting opportunity for a Temporary Receptionist to help cover for holidays within our clients current team.

Main responsibilities;

Serving visitors by greeting, welcoming, and directing them appropriately.
Notifies companies of visitor arrivals, and informing visitors by answering or referring inquiries.
Maintains security and telecommunications system.
Directs visitors by maintaining employee and department directories.
Maintains security by following procedures, monitoring logbook, and issuing visitor badges.
Keeps a safe and clean reception area at all times.

Required / Qualifications;

Telephone Skills
Verbal Communication
Listening
Professionalism
Customer focussed
Organisation
Supply Management

Commutable locations;

Didcot, Abingdon, Milton, Harwell, Wantage, Grove, Wallingford

INDCOM

Planet Recruitment acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. Planet Recruitment is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

By applying for this role your details will be submitted to Planet Recruitment. Our Candidate Privacy Information Statement explains how we will use your information.

Only candidates with the relevant skills and experience will be contacted after application, if you do not hear back from us within 7 days you have unfortunately been unsuccessful in your application.

Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a person’s gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits, qualifications and abilities to perform the duties of the position.

Technical Architecture Analyst

July 23, 2024/in IT Didcot, Oxfordshire Permanent /by Alex Walker

Role: Technical Architecture Analyst

Salary: 36k

Location: Abingdon – Hybrid

Benefits:

20+ Days Holiday and rising (plus bank holidays)
Flexible working (WFH incentives)

Private medical cover

Discounted gym membership
Epic Christmas Parties

Free Car Parking

Primary Purpose

Our client are seeking to recruit into their successful Technical Architecture team with a Technical Architecture Analyst to support the growing business and sales team.

The Technical Architecture Analyst will support the winder Technical Architecture team to deliver technical consultancy and pre-sales activities, and transfer industry, technical and product knowledge to customers via excellent written documentation.

The successful candidate will assist the Technical Architects and Head of Technical Architecture with the management of client activities, bookings, and meetings. Preparation of documentation for clients based on the templated documentation maintained by the Technical Architecture Team. Alongside this the

Technical Architecture Analyst will be responsible for ensuring the efficient interaction with the account management team and the wider business.

Working with the IT Sales Team, your responsibilities will include the development of formal written sales proposals and tender responses based around our product offerings. This role will require an eye for detail as well as a solid understanding of technical language and principals.

Reporting to the Head of Technical Architecture, you will be joining an established business with growth aspirations underpinned by an on-track Business Plan.

We see the role of Technical Architecture Analyst as a stepping stone into the role of Technical Architect for the right candidate who has a dedication to learning and a commitment to personal development.

The ideal candidate will have experience in providing technical support, consultancy and/ or delivery services to end-user customers for some or all products, such as, Microsoft, Back Up and DR, Security, Networking, Storage, Server, Client, and Cloud solutions. With a key focus on well documented solutions.

Key Responsibilities

Deliver chargeable Technical Services to new and existing customers for products, such as Microsoft, Back Up and DR, Security, Networking, Storage, Server, Client and Cloud solutions etc.
Management of team bookings, calendars and meetings
Documentation creation from the teams’ templates
Management and ownership of activity logging and reporting in the CRM system
Working with the Technical Architecture Team and Account managers to deliver to client expectations.
Technical Training and development towards Technical Architect role
Build custom demonstrations and deliver Proof of Concepts (POC)

Compare competitive products to specify the most advantageous solutions for customers; and

Take a leading role in specifying technical solutions and writing proposals and tender responses.

Behaviours Required

Technical Consultancy customer-facing experience or project delivery experience in an MSP or IT Reseller or experience in an IT management or Lead Technical internal role

Proven Technical and IT Services experience

Proposal and Tender writing experience or experience of writing internal documentation to a high customer facing standard

Formal Qualifications to include some or all the following technologies: Microsoft, Vmware, Microsoft Azure, Dell, Cisco, or any other technical certification

Excellent commercial acumen

Excellent presentation and demonstration skills
Excellent organisational skills

Excellent listening skills

Ability to explain and present technical solutions to both technical and non-technical audiences
Excellent relationship-building skills

Affinity to both sales and technology functions; and
Be based in the UK with occasional travel throughout Europe.

INDIT

Planet Recruitment acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. Planet Recruitment is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

By applying for this role your details will be submitted to Planet Recruitment. Our Candidate Privacy Information Statement explains how we will use your information.

Only candidates with the relevant skills and experience will be contacted after application, if you do not hear back from us within 7 days you have unfortunately been unsuccessful in your application.

Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a person’s gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits, qualifications and abilities to perform the duties of the position.

Professional Service Engineer

July 23, 2024/in IT Didcot, Oxfordshire Permanent /by Alex Walker

Role: Project Engineer

Salary: 45k-55k

Location: Didcot – Hybrid

Benefits

25 Days Holiday and rising (plus bank holidays)
Flexible working (WFH incentives)

Bupa Cash Plan
Discounted gym membership
Cycle Scheme
Car Parking

Primary Purpose

Delivering at least four projects every month, sometimes more for our client base. This typically comprises three days of paid support work, one day for an SOW, and one day a week for training and administrative work.

Key Responsibilities

Lead role in project delivery
Work with other departments, ensuring that everyone is kept up to date pre/during/post project work
Work alongside the department PM to work within created project plan
Create a detailed Scope of Work document in line with the project proposal
Raising concerns and SOW creep
Ability to be agile during project works should issue arise
Strong communicator both verbally and written to both internal departments and the wider client base

Project execution: Projects to be kept to time sold and any scope creep or extra days to be clarified/signed off. Engineer to complete 14 days of project work per month – Projects to be delivered within spec (time, scope etc). Any extra days/changes to be agreed by manager.

Training: 2 days per month (on average) dedicated to training. Azure/MS/sophos – to be confirmed on monthly one to ones – All accreditations are to be completed within the suggested individual timescales certification dependent.

Demonstrate Processes are being followed -Admin on projects: All tickets to be keep up to date on a daily basis (time and notes added). Updates to customers at the end of each day. Any issues, scope creep to be raised with PS manager straight away – Demonstrating Communication, time tracking, Clear and detailed SOW documentation across all projects

Project feedback from stakeholders (internal and external): feedback from customer surveys relayed back to engineer on monthly catch ups. Also feedback from AM catch ups – what can be improved on? – Demonstrate where you have gone above and beyond

Handovers – SOW doc: Scope of works to be completed in the time frame given. If extra discovery is needed it needs to be highlighted at internal handover. End -of-project handovers need to be completed to the Planet internal team or the customer (customer type depending) Only at this point can the project be signed off

Non negotiable

Previous experience as a Project engineer in an MSP environment

In-depth knowledge of ADDS, green site deployment of ADDS, multisite deployments, excellent grasp of group policies

Experience with Microsoft Windows RDS

Previous Experience with Sophos and Fortinet products

Desired

Microsoft – Office 365 – Experience with hybrid migrations, ideally being the technical lead on the project(s) * Experience of Intune Deployments
Experience with “bare metal” configuration and installation of Firewalls and Switches (Sophos, Dell, HP, and Fortinet)
Experience working with cloud technologies- Azure or AWS
Virtualisation Experience- VMware and Hyper V, bare metal deployments of ESXI hosts are essential with vSAN and Physical SAN
Microsoft Core Services – AD, DNS, DHCP (Migration and Maintenance)

INDIT

Planet Recruitment acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. Planet Recruitment is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

By applying for this role your details will be submitted to Planet Recruitment. Our Candidate Privacy Information Statement explains how we will use your information.

Only candidates with the relevant skills and experience will be contacted after application, if you do not hear back from us within 7 days you have unfortunately been unsuccessful in your application.

Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a person’s gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits, qualifications and abilities to perform the duties of the position.

2nd Line Engineer

July 17, 2024/in IT Didcot, Oxfordshire Permanent /by Alex Walker

Role: 2^nd Line IT Engineer

Location: Didcot

Salary: £32k

Benefits:

20+ Days Holiday and rising (plus bank holidays)
Flexible working (WFH incentives)
Private medical cover
Discounted gym membership
Epic Christmas Parties – (weekend in Iceland last year!)
Car Parking

Primary Purpose

The Desktop team are tasked with supporting, investigating, and resolving our MSP client’s IT related systems and making sure all issues are dealt with in a timely fashion.

Key Responsibilities

Being the first point of contact for all incoming support calls, emails, and sessions – when necessary
Being an escalation point for all escalations coming from apprentice, and 1^st line, engineers
Ensuring all forms of support call are logged in the system and the client is kept updated
Manage incident and request tickets ensuring established SLA’s are met

Providing support to our clients

Help the Helpdesk Management Team with continued business improvements
Provide support to the apprentice, and 1^st Line, engineers
Manage/Maintain all escalations from the apprentice, and 1^st line, engineers
Communicate daily to clients with open tickets
Managing the client’s expectations with ongoing tickets
Ensure all client related problems are logged correctly
Inform the Desktop Team Lead of any tickets requiring escalations
Working with client’s 3^rd party suppliers and vendors when appropriate
Adhere to all company policies and procedures
Ensuring that all role related KPI’s are met
Logging, managing, and resolving client IT issues
Maintain desktop asset register and configurations
Undertake any other reasonable duties as required to meet the needs of the business

Person Specification:

Minimum:

Excellent knowledge in Windows 7/8/10 installation and configuration
Good knowledge with MacOS installation and configuration
Exposure to Email Management/Configuration – Exchange 2013/2016, Office365, etc

Exposure to Office365 Powershell command-lets
Exposure to Email filter technologies, such as Mimecast, Barracuda, Sophos Email Gateway
Exposure to Microsoft Server OS – 2012/2016/2019
2+ years’ experience working with medium-large businesses

Good working knowledge of Active Directory – User account creation, group creation, etc
Good working knowledge of NTFS permissions
Ability to learn on your feet
Strong communication skills
Excellent troubleshooting and problem resolution skills
Excellent client service
Positive attitude to work
Strive to continuous improvement
Able to work independently under pressure
Minimum of 2 years’ IT experience in a corporate or services environment
Driving license and own transport

INDIT

Planet Recruitment acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. Planet Recruitment is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

By applying for this role your details will be submitted to Planet Recruitment. Our Candidate Privacy Information Statement explains how we will use your information.

Only candidates with the relevant skills and experience will be contacted after application, if you do not hear back from us within 7 days you have unfortunately been unsuccessful in your application.

Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a person’s gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits, qualifications and abilities to perform the duties of the position.

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