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Fractional CTO

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Role:  Fractional CTO – Industrial Automation

Location:  Nottingham, East Midlands

Working Arrangement:  1–2 Days/Week – Hybrid

Salary:  £350 – £600 per day

Shape the technical leadership of a high-growth engineering venture.

We’re working with a cutting-edge UK company developing complex, high-value industrial hardware. Their product bridges mechanical, software, and robotic disciplines – so they’re seeking a Fractional CTO to help guide their multidisciplinary R&D and engineering teams as the business scales.

This is a leadership/facilitation role – not a technical deep dive.

The ideal person will be able to empower the senior technical team, ensure cohesion across engineering and product streams, and help shape the roadmap. Experience leading robotics or mechatronic R&D teams, especially in capital equipment, would be a major plus, although an engineering leader from deep-tech, industrial machinery or automotive backgrounds may be considered (both mechnical and software engineering must have come under your remit in previous roles).

Key requirements:

  • Experience leading software/mechanical/robotics engineering teams
  • Background in complex R&D programmes for capital-intensive products
  • Strong communicator and facilitator of high-performing technical teams
  • Available to be onsite in the UK East Midlands c.50% of the time

This is an ideal opportunity for a technical leader who prefers working through influence, context, and structure – rather than architecture reviews or deep technical intervention.  Your role will be to guide the team and ensure projects are delivered using a combination of your people, stakeholder management and technical expertise.  You’ll play a key supporting role to the founder, essentially sitting between him and the technical teams, freeing him up to take the business forwards whilst you take ownership over the delivery of both commercial customer solutions and R&D projects.

On offer is a day rate of between £350 – £600 per day – though the remuneration will be flexible depending on the exact nature of the engagement.

Please apply or get in touch to discuss further.

We welcome diverse applicants and are dedicated to treating all applicants with dignity and respect, regardless of background.

Ref:  3372124

Fractional VP of Sales

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Role:  Fractional VP of Sales – Robotics / Automation

Location:  Remote – UK or EU

Salary:  £400 – £900 per day plus agreed bonuses/uplifts

Build a high-performing commercial function for a next-generation industrial tech business.
This fast-growing scale-up is bringing advanced automation systems to global markets, with a product offering that sits at the intersection of innovation and capital intensity. Average deal sizes exceed £500k, and they’re now looking for a commercially astute leader to shape their sales strategy and function from the ground up.

You’ll be leading a team including a US Business Development Director, a marketer and a technical solutions team that support the sales process, so a background in driving multi-stage, highly-technical sales processes involving high CapEx products and services is essential.

You’ll bring:

  • Experience selling high-value industrial, automation or Robotics solutions
  • A strong track record of building partnerships, channels, and strategic alliances
  • A ‘closer’ mindset to get deals over the line
  • Experience working alongside technical solutions engineers or pre-sales teams
  • Comfort working across global markets and within scale-up/early commercial teams

The commitment:

  • Fractional role (1–2 days/week)
  • Remote, with flexibility to engage with a UK-based team
  • Initial 6–12 month focus on go-to-market execution, team design, and partner strategy

If you’re a hands-on sales strategist who enjoys bringing structure to technical scale-ups, this is a chance to define the commercial foundations of an ambitious business with world-class engineering at its core.

On offer is a daily rate of between £400 – £900 per day plus agreed bonuses/uplifts.  However, your specific financial package will be flexible depending on what you bring to the table, so if you fit the bill above get in touch.

We welcome diverse applicants and are dedicated to treating all applicants with dignity and respect, regardless of background.

Ref:  3373121

Non-Executive Director

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Role:  Non-Executive Director (Engineering/Capital Equipment)

Location: Nottingham, East Midlands

Working Arrangement:   2–3 Days/Month – Onsite

Salary:  £800 – £1500 per day

A rare opportunity to influence the trajectory of a high-growth, disruptive capital equipment engineering scale-up.

We’re working with a venture-backed advanced engineering business poised for international expansion. They’ve developed unique IP in the high-value capital equipment space and are now seeking a Non-Executive Director with experience scaling disruptive, mechanical engineering-led businesses and helping to drive international growth.

Your background:

You’ve steered disruptive mechanical engineering start-ups /scale-ups through funding rounds, established operational KPIs, guided exec teams through corporate development, and supported growth into international markets (specifically the USA).

You will have proven experience within Low volume, high-value manufacturing, ideally within industrial automation, aerospace/automotive or robotics.

You bring both strategic perspective and practical insight, ideally gained in environments involving complex hardware, robotics, automation, or advanced manufacturing systems.

You’ll be well travelled and able to draw on wide-ranging experience within sales, operations and corporate strategy.  Whilst you don’t need to be an engineering expert, you will need to understand the challenges a high-value capital equipment scale-up faces when it comes to building operational capability, reducing founder dependency and developing sales strategy (through partnerships, for example).

This role offers:

  • Board-level influence in a genuinely groundbreaking business with a founder who already has a strategy but needs a sounding board/mentor
  • 2–3 days per month commitment (onsite in the East Midlands) – with potential to increase days if there’s a need
  • A chance to have impact in a business with incredibly high-potential and highly committed and engaged team

If you fit the bill above and are looking for an NED or NxC position helping an ambitious, technical founder move from R&D to commercialisation, please apply or contact us directly

We welcome diverse applicants and are dedicated to treating all applicants with dignity and respect, regardless of background.

Solutions Delivery Manager

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Title: Solutions Delivery Manager

Location:  Leicester

Working Policy: 3 Days per week in office

Salary: Up to £75k plus benefits (including industry-specific ones)

Are you an outcomes-obsessed, solutions-mad Delivery Manager with great business acumen, who knows how to wrangle any team you’re put in front of?

Are you just as happy talking to external stakeholders as you are with a flock of BAs or gaggle of Software Engineers?

Then look no further, this is your next role!

Working in a medium-sized company, that’s all about automobiles, you’ll be a senior member of the tech department: using your technical background daily, actively contributing towards a positive culture, heading up a team of BAs and, occasionally, software Engineers, and working closely and collaboratively with various teams within the business to drive forward delivery, business objectives, and technology solutions.

You’ll do some high-level solutions design, be heavily involved in 3rd party integrations, be a point of escalation for any blockers, and will be customer-facing: being an advocate for the client to internal and external customers.

This is a brilliant role that’ll bring together all your technical, delivery, and business experience to bear in an energetic, interesting, and modern department, where all your work will be much needed and visible to the company- you’ll not be a tiny cog in a huge machine. You’ll actively contribute to the company’s technical strategy in a variety of ways, from software integrations to delivery management.

As you can imagine, a physical presence in the business is needed in this position, to enable you to build really strong relationships with the people around you, so a minimum of 3 days per week in the office is a requirement.

If this role sounds like you, apply now or drop me a line to find out more!

We welcome diverse applicants and are dedicated to treating all applicants with dignity and respect, regardless of background.

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Geotechnical Engineering Manager

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Role: Geotechnical Engineering Manager

Location: Derbyshire

Working Arrangement:  4 days a week in the office, 1 day on site

Salary: Up to £60k (negotiable on experience), plus company car

Sticks and stones won’t break him, project management and rocks will make me! Hopefully, that brought a smile to your face, and you are tempted to read on for more details on the role.

This is a great opportunity for a Geotechnical engineer to make a move into a management role, or you may already be a manager who is looking for your next opportunity to join a rapidly growing organisation. As a manager, you will be responsible for a small team of three and will be able to guide and develop them through their career.

This role offers the opportunity to be involved in a broad variety of tasks, so you will be able to multitask and prioritise your workload according to the business’s demands. Communication skills are key as you will be dealing with stakeholders, site technicians, and customers.

What am I looking for:

  • You will have experience in managing project performance and have a track record of increasing value through change as well as mitigating risk.
  • Experience in managing a team as well as workloads of the team.
  • You will be able to review the geotechnical results in order to ensure that the performance specification, as well as frequencies, are achieved on all projects.
  • It is essential that you have experience with geotechnical projects
  • Experience of attending client meetings

If you have a CSCS card, however, if this has expired, it’s not a biggie as they are able to put you through the accreditation process for this. You will be required to travel to the site once a week, in your lovely company car; the rest of the time, you will be required to be on-site in order to guide and develop the team.

If you want more information on this role, please get in touch.

We welcome diverse applicants and are dedicated to treating all applicants with dignity and respect, regardless of background.

Ref:  3209396

IT Development Manager

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Role: IT Development Manager C# .Net SQL

Location: Mansfield

Working Arrangement:  For the first few months, 5 days per week in the office, and at least 2 days in the office thereafter.

Salary: Around £45k

If you’re a C# .Net Developer with managerial experience, especially if you’ve managed offshore teams before, then this role could be right up your street.

I am working with a well-established company in Mansfield who are looking for someone to join them to be a hands-on developer and manage a small team, consisting of an in-house developer and a small off-shore team of Indian developers.

Working in a lively office, you’ll be surrounded by down-to-earth people who love what they do and have a good laugh doing it!

You’ll have a number of projects to get stuck into, including building a new ERP system: getting involved in a hands-on capacity, and overseeing the teams and their progress.

You’ll be in an Agile environment, using C#, ASP.Net, and SQL Server mainly, with desktop development forming the main part of your workload, but they are introducing some web development into the fold, so experience using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript would be useful.

They are open to new tech being introduced, and in your capacity as a leader there, you’re free to bring in anything you feel will aid the team in their endeavours, such as Azure for example.

For the first few months, whilst you get settled in and learn the ropes, you’ll be going into the office 5 days per week, and that can drop down to 2 days per week thereafter. If you want to go in full time though, nobody will stop you!

If this sounds like what you’ve been looking for, then apply today or drop me a line to find out more!

We welcome diverse applicants and are dedicated to treating all applicants with dignity and respect, regardless of background.

Ref:  2969376

Head of Customer Support

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Role: Head of Customer Support

Location: Derbyshire

Working Arrangement:  Hybrid after probation

Salary: Up to £75K

Are customers at the forefront of your mind in a role? Managing a team that offers excellence to your bag? If so, please read on.

You will take responsibility for leading and managing all the customer support functions with the group; this currently consists of a 20-plus team. Developing and implementing strategies will be at the core of what you do, ensuring that the team are continuously improving processes to enhance the customers’ experience. You will be able to look at reasons why certain tickets arise and put processes in place to ensure that tickets are reduced by implementing procedures for customers. Not only this you will be the escalation point for any issues that may arise.

You will be a forward-thinking individual identifying issues before they even occur and creating this mindset within the teams. You will be overseeing and ensuring that all SLA’s and KPI’s are monitored and measured to ensure that the team’s performance is on target. Experience in managing a team is essential. Collaboration will be your middle name as you will be liaising with cross functional teams in order to address any customer issues and prioritise any feature requests.

Experience required:

  • Prior experience in a leadership role overseeing customer support or service functions
  • A solid understanding of customer support best practices
  • Ability to analyse data and identify trends and insights
  • Experience working with CRM systems
  • A great track record of driving customer satisfaction, retention and loyalty

If this sounds like the role for you, please get in touch.

We welcome diverse applicants and are dedicated to treating all applicants with dignity and respect, regardless of background.

Ref:  3026290

Chief Technical Officer

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Role:  Chief Technical Officer (CTO)

Location:  Lincolnshire

Working Arrangements: Twice per week in the office

Salary: Up to £90K plus benefits

Are you looking for a meaningful, rewarding application for all your knowledge, skills, and experience of people leadership and technical prowess?

Would you like to work in a genuinely entrepreneurial and supportive environment where all the work you do will be meaningful and drive the company forward?

Then look no further, your next role awaits!

Working with a lovely, charitable company based in Lincolnshire, I am looking for a talented and experienced CTO to join them.

In this role, you’ll be driving their technical strategy: showing them how they can grow from a technical perspective, implementing development practices and standards, mentoring a small team, and representing tech to the wider organisation.

Their people and culture are the most important things to them, priding themselves on having a super working environment that allows people to flourish, grow, and contribute.

It’s important that you are an ambitious person who relishes a challenge, that you want to push yourself and others around you on to great things, and are the kind of person who can lead with an air of gravitas that garners respect from people around you and work collaboratively and diplomatically with others- no big egos will do well here!

Tech-wise, they are using PHP, JavaScript, React, etc. it’s not necessary for you to have experience with this tech stack, specifically, rather you should have a well-rounded knowledge and appreciation of technology from a hands-on career in tech, and able to pick up a good understanding of new tech in order to talk shop with the devs. They need to get their product offering up to date before they can push on to improve it further, so a good technical grounding is imperative to be successful here.

If this sounds like your dream role, apply now, or drop me a line to find out more!

We welcome diverse applicants and are dedicated to treating all applicants with dignity and respect, regardless of background.

Ref:  3026133

Operations Technology Manager

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Role:  Operations Technology Manager

Location:  Nottingham

Working Model:  Hybrid working 2 days in the office

Salary:  Circa £75k + 10% Bonus

Lead. Secure. Innovate. Bridge the Gap.
I am recruiting for a respected software house that employs around 100 staff and has ambitious plans to grow by at least 20% this year. My client is looking for an Operations Technology Manager to play a crucial role in security, compliance, DevOps, and system reliability.

This is the perfect opportunity for someone who has ‘been there, done that’ in tech— particularly in DevOps and Azure—but is now looking for a leadership-focused role, bridging the gap between technical teams and business operations.
You will be directly reporting to the Managing Director, leading a small but high-performing team to ensure robust security, high system availability, and operational efficiency.
What You Will Be Doing:

  • Security & Compliance – Take charge of ISO management, security policies, and best practices to keep systems compliant and secure.
  • System Performance & Reliability – Ensure the resilience and efficiency of our Azure infrastructure, focusing on SQL performance and system uptime.
  • SQL & DevOps Oversight – Lead a DevOps team of five, alongside two security and compliance specialists and a SQL expert to maintain database health and integration efficiency.
  • Leadership & Process Improvement – Drive security, DevOps, and reliability strategies, ensuring alignment between technical teams and business goals.

What We Are Looking For:

  • Technical background, ideally in DevOps, but now focused on leadership and strategy.
  • Previous experience with Azure and modern DevOps practices.
  • Strong understanding of ISO management, security policies, and compliance.
  • A people person who can motivate and manage technical teams.
  • Excellent problem-solving, communication, and organisational skills.
  • Passionate about process improvement, efficiency, and business growth.

What’s in It for You?

  • Circa £75K salary
  • 10% financial bonus & 10% employer pension contribution
  • 35-hour working week
  • Hybrid working – two days a week in the Nottingham office
  • Regular team events and a collaborative, forward-thinking environment

Ready to step up and lead? Apply now and be the driving force behind my client’s tech evolution!

We welcome diverse applicants and are dedicated to treating all applicants with dignity and respect, regardless of background.

Ref:  3015199

Data Delivery Manager

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Role: Data Delivery Manager

Location: Ideally Midlands based

Working Arrangements:  Primarily remote with travel to client sites

Salary: Up to £75k depending on experience

Is working with data what you dream of? Do you have experience in leading high-value complex data projects? If so, read on this may be the role for you.

You will be joining a small but growing team in which you will have the ability to lead and manage multiple projects, dealing with a variety of stakeholders. Attention to detail and strong communication skills are a must for this role. Alongside this, you will understand the importance of managing risks and see the outcomes of a project, not just the outputs.

You will be able to take full responsibility for managing the projects, not only ensuring that they are delivered with the desired outcomes but also ensuring that they are on time and within budget. You will be the go-to person, building a relationship with the clients ensuring that you build rapport and trust to ensure a long-term relationship. A clear head and calm manner are essential!

Not only this, but you will also be able to express the project in a way that all stakeholders understand. You will be able to mitigate risks and highlight any potential risks with the migration. You will take full responsibility for managing the budget for the project. You will be able to manage multiple clients at once and ensure their needs are met.

As I mentioned, experience with data is key for this project, you will have had experience with data integration projects. Any experience with data integration platforms is a bonus, as well as working with data BI projects. An understanding of implementing projects in line with the Data Protection Act is an even bigger bonus!!

Whilst you will be primarily working remotely, there is an expectation that you will travel to clients’ sites, in order to build and develop the relationship. They are a great bunch of people to work for who are committed to the data field. On top of this, you will get private healthcare, and the option to purchase holidays and quarterly socials.

We welcome diverse applicants and are dedicated to treating all applicants with dignity and respect, regardless of background.

Ref:  2997376

Staff Engineer  – Climate Tech

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Role:  Staff Engineer  – Climate Tech

Location:  Fully Remote but you have to be based in the East Coast, USA, or Mainland Europe

Salary:  Up to £150k with generous benefits + equity

*PLEASE NOTE: Python/FastAPI + React/Typescript expertise is essential*

Wow.

That’s how we felt after the briefing call with the Head of Engineering.  Why? Because this opportunity really does have everything.

Work with a purpose that is changing the world for the better? Check.

Backed by serious investment whilst also doubling revenue YoY? Check.

Remote work, with super-talented colleagues spread across the globe? Check.

Great pay, benefits and culture?  Check, check, check!

This *ridiculously* cool climate-tech company is at the start-up/scale-up inflection point.

They’re moving past the days where problems were solved with unstructured grit, where intuition and random brilliance were the order of the day.  They’re now looking for sanity and scalability, and you’ll play a leading role in this transformation.

Their team develops a unique product that helps organisations proactively monitor and manage one of the major (and up until now, less-addressed) effects of climate change.  It is a devastating problem that is wreaking havoc across the world, but with the products you’ll be developing you’ll directly be contributing to a safer and more stable world.

With a new round of investment and new customers signing up for their groundbreaking product, they are on the cusp of a major recruitment drive, but none of their roles are more important than this Chief Software Engineer role.

Currently, they have a talented team of software engineers with a front-end bias, and little in the way of deep Python software development experience.  With these roles, they want to help balance this, by hiring a super-capable Chief Software Engineer with expert-level proficiency in full-stack, cloud-driven (GCP, Azure or AWS) development in React, Angular or Typescript along with Python/FastAPI (this is vital).

You must also have a genuine interest in the sustainability movement and working for a company that is mission-driven as you’ll be working with super-passionate people who care deeply about our planet.

You’ll have no formal line management responsibilities in this role but will lead/coach the team and drive the adoption of industry-leading technology and standards across the engineering team.  You’ll be a flexible and sensitive technical leader, able to win over colleagues who are working through this cultural and technical transition using your excellent relationship-building, leadership and collaboration skills.

The role will be remote based with occasional travel into London and/or Amsterdam, and you can be based anywhere in the US, mainland Europe or on the East Coast of the US (but able to be flexible to GMT/CET working patterns).

On offer is a salary of up to £150k with generous benefits + equity.

Please apply to find out if you might be suitable (all our applicants are screened by an experienced, human recruiter and not AI)

We welcome diverse applicants and are dedicated to treating all applicants with dignity and respect, regardless of background.

Ref:  2648474

Senior Client Manager

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Role: Senior Client Manager

Location: Derby

Working Arrangement: Hybrid – 2 days a week (4-day working week)

Salary: Up to £50k

4 days a week in the office, everyone’s dream? Well read on as this could make your dreams come true!!!!  Not only is it a 4-day working week, but you get the chance to work with a really cool team, who are a friendly, vibrant bunch!!!

Anyway, what is the role, as a Senior Client Manager you will take the lead and ensure that all other Client Managers have a balanced and efficient workflow. You will be looking for the leadership role as you will be taking responsibility for the training and development of team members as well as conducting reviews of their management accounts.

About you, you will ideally be ACA or ACCA qualified and have prior experience in a client management role. Communication skills will be key in this role as you will be dealing with all levels across the business, both internally and externally.

What skills am I looking for:

  • Sound knowledge of accounting principles, tax and VAT compliance
  • Proficiency in cloud accounting software
  • Experience in a client management or similar role
  • Experience of leading a team

If this 4 day a week sounds like the dream for you, as well as the role! Please get in touch.

We welcome diverse applicants and are dedicated to treating all applicants with dignity and respect, regardless of background.

IT Manager

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Role:  IT Manager

Location:  Nottingham

Working Model:  Office Based

Salary: Up to £55k, Negotiable – Based on Experience

Are you looking for that fully hands-on role in which you will be able to get involved in all aspects of tech?  Are you an IT Manager who likes to be involved in running projects and overseeing the company’s infrastructure?

If so, read on as this may be the role for you.

You will ideally have worked in an SME and be used to undertaking a variety of work within your role. You will work closely with the stakeholders and be able to identify and suggest requirements that may be needed within the business.

You won’t be expected to work directly with the infrastructure, however, an understanding of how it works is advantageous as you will be dealing with the external service provider. You will be involved in a variety of different projects and will deliver these from start to finish.

You will have a small team that you will be responsible for, including a developer, so if coding is a hobby, you may have the opportunity to put this into practice if you wish. They are currently going through an implementation, so if you have exposure to working with an ERP system, it’s a bonus. As is experience with SQL.

If this sounds like this could be you, apply today or contact Jules at Rebel Recruiters for more information.

We welcome diverse applicants and are dedicated to treating all applicants with dignity and respect, regardless of background.

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Senior Customs Manager

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Role:  Senior Customs Manager

Location:  Derbyshire, Birmingham or Northamptonshire

Working Model:  Hybrid – 3 Days/week in one of three offices

Salary:  Up to £70k + Excellent Benefits

You really know your stuff when it comes to Customs and Excise regulations.

You’ve worked as a Customs Manager for years, educating and training colleagues and ensuring your busy logistics operation stays compliant, and policies and procedures are implemented and followed.

But you’re now looking for a chance to kick on.  In your current place, it’s a case of dead-mans-shoes; you can’t move up or progress until someone else moves on.

Not here.  This is one of the UK’s fastest-growing companies and with the business predicted to double in size pretty soon, there’ll be loads of opportunity for you to impress and move up in the business.

This business has been going through a period of rapid expansion over several years, and there’s no sign of slowing down.  But that means there’s always a lot going on, so people who work here need to be proactive and make things happen.

So in this role, you’ll need to be a strong character, able to negotiate and influence effectively whilst building relationships at all levels.

You’ll manage a small team, so you also need to be an effective leader; someone who can lead by example in a fast-moving, entrepreneurial culture.

You will work with colleagues across various teams and at all levels to ensure everything is customs-compliant. You’ll be an expert in all export/import-related matters and will know how to balance compliance with ensuring disruption to operations is kept to a minimum.

On offer is a base salary up to £70k + £10k car allowance, 28 days holiday and several other excellent benefits.

The role is hybrid-based, with three days working in one of their offices in Derbyshire, Birmingham, or Northamptonshire. It will also involve some travel.

This role is exclusive to us so please apply for immediate consideration or give us a call to find out more (google Rebel Recruiters for our number!).

We welcome diverse applicants and are dedicated to treating all applicants with dignity and respect, regardless of background.