Project Officer (Enablement Support Team Member)
| Posting date: | 12 February 2026 |
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| Salary: | £23.08 to £30.88 per hour |
| Additional salary information: | PAYE or Umbrella |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 March 2026 |
| Location: | Chester, Cheshire, CH4 0DR |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Carbon60 |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | BBBH174505_1770896242 |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Project Officer to join a dynamic Operations Support Team within a high‑performance manufacturing environment based in Broughton. This role is ideal for someone with strong organisational abilities, technical awareness, and a passion for continuous improvement. The successful candidate will play a key part in enabling smooth operational flow and supporting production teams in delivering to exacting standards.
This is a contract position running until February 2027 working full time hours of 35 hours per week.
As a Project Officer, you will support the operational performance of the production environment through a range of responsibilities, including:
- Acting as a link between engineering, design, and operations to resolve production‑related blockers.
- Managing and maintaining consumables and tooling to ensure availability and readiness.
- Liaising with Facilities and Services teams to ensure compliance with Service Level Agreements and delivery requirements.
- Providing a key interface between Operations and the Tool Control Centre, including calibration process coordination.
- Supporting Capex projects and wider facility improvement activities.
- Identifying and implementing continuous improvement opportunities aligned with lean manufacturing principles.
- Supporting the safety function with compliance across health, safety, and environmental standards.
- Conducting financial analysis, reporting, and cost control activities.
- Maintaining and supporting lean systems and processes.
- Upholding 5C/housekeeping standards.
- Contributing to visual management systems and process improvement projects.
The ideal candidate will demonstrate:
- General knowledge of assembly tools and production techniques (ideally within a complex manufacturing environment).
- Experience working with tooling, calibration, and procedural documentation.
- A strong ability to investigate issues, identify root causes, and drive continuous improvement.
- Practical IT competence with common PC packages (essential) and experience with SAP (desirable).
- Understanding of lean systems and manufacturing methodologies.
- Familiarity with TCMI (desirable).
If you are interested in this position and would like to know more, please apply with an updated CV and one of our consultants will be in touch.
Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.