This well established retail banking group requires an Assistant Branch Manager to help manage their Cheltenham branch. This role will suit someone who has a strong background in sales within financial services experience and some previous staff management experience. With a flair for sales, confidence in building strong relationships with customers and the ability to inspire and influence the team you will have excellent organisational ability and the desire to help to drive this branch forward. Tasks will include:

• Deal effectively with initial mortgage enquires up to and including the mortgage interview sale and post-completion
• Identify and convert cross-selling opportunities
• Achieve personal sales targets by generating sufficient quality referrals and sales or mortgage, investment and regulated products
• Ensure that there is a high level of customer service at all times and refer customers to colleagues for financial advice
• Ensure that the administration for mortgage applications and investments is completed
• Supervise and monitor the performance of colleagues
• Assist the Branch Manager in developing the business performance of the branch
• Provide coaching and feedback to colleagues
• Ensure branch audit security and cash management requirements are adhered to

A full job description is available upon application.

Skills and experience required:

•           Ideally coming from a financial services background you will have strong sales experience and be used to working towards targets.  Candidates from a retail background will also be considered if you are used to working towards challenging sales targets

•           You will have some staff leadership skills including coaching and mentoring others

•           Minimum 5 GCSEs (or equivalent) including Maths and English

•           CEMAP qualification is desirable but not essential . Those candidates without CEMAP will be required to gain the qualification within one year of joining for company.

Salary: £15,000 - £18,000 basic plus town allowance of £1823, plus a monthly bonus based on achievement of branch based sales targets giving an OTE of £19,000 - £25,000 per annum. Other corporate benefits are available and will be advised upon application.

Hours: Monday to Friday, and 22 Saturdays per year from 9am – 1pm. If you are required to work any additional Saturdays throughout the year (which is unlikely) you would be paid overtime in compensation.

Adecco is an employment agency and an equal opportunities employer.

Electrical Design Engineer required by leading Aerospace company for an initial 6 month contract based in Cheltenham.

As Electrical Design Engineer you will carry out the design of electrical wiring and products for civil & military aerospace applications, in the fields of display systems, power control and aircraft utilities management

Duties and Responsibilities:

• To design the electrical aspects of products including wiring & bus bars, thermal management, manufacturability and electrical safety under the direction of a team leader
• To integrate & verify electrical products & systems
• To support products through environmental and EMC qualification.
• To lead and coach junior engineers.
• To diagnose and fix design problems in existing and new products.
• To help prepare the technical content of new product proposals.
• To prepare for and participate in design reviews.
• To provide technical advice within the department and to customers.
• Specification and selection of Electro-mechanical components, including supplier technical Liaison
• To work according to company and industry standards and design processes

Key Drivers

• A willingness to carry out military design is essential, as isUK security clearance.
• Availability for international travel to visit and support customers.
• The applicant should be able to work efficiently with other departments such as systems, software & manufacturing.

Skills and Competencies:

Required

• Electrical design of wiring, relays, contactors, circuit breakers and electrical panels.
• Technical problem solving and diagnosis skills
• Used to working within a recognised quality system
• Able to clearly formulate and communicate complex design concepts.
• Willing to participate in military product design.
• Having the organisational skills to deliver to budget and schedule with minimal supervision.
• The confidence, flexibility and risk management skills to develop new approaches and solutions

Desirable

• Aerospace power distribution experience
• Technical proposal writing
• Dealing with Outsource suppliers and subcontractors
• Awareness of aerospace wiring practice.
• Power distribution, switching and control
• Knowledge of Solid state power switching systems

For further information please contact Janica Phelan or apply through this website.

An exciting opportunity with a Global Engineering Company in the Gloucestershire area requiring a talented Lead Test Equipment Design Engineer. You will be responsible for specifying, developing, and supplying Test Equipment solutions for Avionics product programmes. You will be expected to lead a small team of engineers and direct their day to day activities.

Responsibilities:

* Liaise with project, manufacturing, test equipment, in-service personnel and other stakeholders to capture original and/or changed requirements.
* Develop the schedule and costs for the hardware solution.
* Take the lead in designing and developing test equipment hardware to production standards, complying with all current regulatory and safety requirements.
* Develop flexible design solutions which are appropriate and scalable to end user requirements.
* Outsource elements of the work where appropriate, generating Statements of Work (SOW) and ensuring compliance with Export controls.
* Provide technical liaison with suppliers throughout the outsource process,
* Organise and run technical design reviews for internal and outsourced activities.
* Support the integration and commissioning of the hardware with test software and units-under-test.
* Conduct verification and validation of the delivered test equipment.
* Generate a documentation suite for the equipment from original requirements through to formal release procedures.

Requirements:

* Degree in Engineering or equivalent level of knowledge and experience
* Experience of developing hardware for high integrity electronics/computing equipment.
* Experience of taking the lead in design and development activities with some exposure to leadership of a small team of engineers.
* Good understanding of test philosophies and types of testing employed in the development and release of high integrity products.
* Ability to deliver solutions on-time, to budget and required quality.
* Ability to communicate at all levels and present information concisely.
* Good understanding of regulatory and safety requirements for test systems.

Desired Characteristics:

* Experience of technically leading test equipment design, development, and hardware/software integration for Avionics products.
* Solid competence in the use Microsoft Office and Project applications.
* Knowledge of PC based test architecture (for example PCI, PXI and VXI).
* Flexible approach to problem solving.
* Ability to manage change and obsolescence issues.
* Experience of fault tree analysis and automated test diagnostics would be useful

Benefits Include:

• Exciting Projects
• Real World Challenges
• Pension Scheme
• Good Opportunities for Career Development, Regular Reviews and Career Planning.
• Good Location and Working Environment.
• Relocation Package Available.
• Free On-Site Parking

Successful applicants will be required to undergo UK MOD security clearance prior to appointment.