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Ensuring our business runs smoothly and delivers our customers a great service.

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Support Services at FMUK

Our support teams ensure our business runs smoothly, so we give our customers great service. We cover a huge range of roles. This means, as FMUK continues to grow, you’ll find a wide variety of career opportunities. With the scope to specialise in one area, or broaden your skills across a range of different teams.

You’ll be encouraged to make decisions, think for yourself and continually develop your skills. So, if you have a can-do attitude, the flexibility to adapt to changing priorities and an enthusiasm for learning new skills, we’ll give you every opportunity to achieve your full potential.

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Our Support Services teams

Clerical and Administration

Clerical and Administration

We’re the team behind FMUK’s day-to-day operations. Keeping the business running by supporting everyone, from our commercial and logistics teams to projects and reception. Join us and you could be greeting visitors as the face of our business. You might be in one of our warehouses, checking stock, getting paperwork right and sending out the right parts to the right customers at the right time. Or you may be working with our engineering teams, keeping them up-to-date with any changes to customer requirements. Whatever your role, it’s about giving the best customer service to everyone – clients, colleagues and visitors.

Commercial

Commercial

Our business depends on winning and retaining commercially viable business. That’s where this team comes in. It’s our role to identify potential new clients, develop bids and quotations and win new business. It’s all about being commercially-aware and customer-focused. Being able to build positive, long-standing customer relationships. Negotiating and agreeing commercial contracts. And making sure every contract is profitable by analysing, revenue, pricing and costs. So, join this team and you’ll play a major role in securing a successful future for our business.

Finance

Finance

Join our Finance team in Burnley and you’ll play a key role in making sure that our daily, weekly, monthly and annual finances are accurate and up-to-date. It’s vital work, ensuring that everything from purchasing and invoicing to our payroll and tax returns are managed effectively. You might be liaising with Futaba’s Japanese HQ, providing management information to support the day-to-day running of the business. Or you could be making sure our people get paid, or overseeing contracts. Whatever your role, you’ll help to keep us financially successful.

Health & Safety

Health & Safety

Health and safety are vital to our business. Join us and you’ll be helping to reduce costs, improve productivity and make all our sites healthier and safer places to work. We’re involved in everything from monitoring risks and hazards to carrying out safety inspections and creating relevant policies and controls. Advising and training our people in all aspects of health and safety, to ensuring we stay compliant with relevant legislation. First aid to fire marshalling. Whatever your role, you’ll play a key role in keeping our people healthy, safe and happy at work.

Human Resources

Human Resources

Working closely with the business and our employees, we make sure that FMUK is a great place to work. Because, ultimately, that makes us better for our customers. This means being true business partners and strategic advisors. How? By working closely with managers to develop policies and procedures that create a fair, consistent and supportive workplace. It’s about ensuring that all our people have opportunities to learn, develop and grow their careers. It’s about creating a culture where everyone feels welcomed, supported and engaged. And it’s about nurturing and rewarding talented people, so they achieve their full potential.

Planning

Planning

Our reputation is built on meeting our customers’ needs every time. And the Planning team plays a vital role in this, planning production, resources and materials to ensure we deliver. It’s about analysing and understanding customer requirements and planning effectively to meet them. This involves planning production and scheduling deliveries of the right materials. It involves reducing waste in terms of people’s time, as well as materials, by managing internal and external resources effectively. And it involves constantly monitoring performance and making adjustments to meet customer needs.

Purchasing and Stores

Purchasing and Stores

Understanding business needs, controlling costs and making sure we have the parts and materials when we need them. That’s the role of this team. Join us and you’ll help to ensure that the business has everything it needs, when it needs it, at the right cost. We find the best suppliers for the parts and consumables the business needs, negotiate the best price and manage these crucial relationships. At the same time, we keep an eye on stock levels and the use of consumables, so we can schedule deliveries, while keeping waste to a minimum.

Quality and Laboratory

Quality and Laboratory

Delivering a quality product to our customers every time is what sets Futaba apart. As one of our Quality Engineers, you’ll work closely with our customers, creating relevant quality documentation and agreeing control measures and test schedules. While our Systems Engineers promote a quality culture and develop the relevant quality systems that ensure we’re always meeting our customers’ needs. Our Quality Coordinators play a major role in promoting a quality culture and ensuring we have the relevant systems we need to continually monitor the quality of our work and our products. And our Quality Checkers are at the heart of this, continuously checking product quality so we meet our customers’ needs. Together, the team make sure that we always meet our customers’ expectations and deliver on their needs.

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Investing in your development

We want to give you every opportunity to develop the career you want at FMUK. That’s why we have a clear development pathway, so whatever level you’re at, you know exactly what you need to achieve in order to move to the next level, if that’s what you want.

In our support services teams, you’ll enjoy the chance to build your career in your chosen team or develop a broader, more varied career. We offer plenty of opportunities for you to gain experience across different teams. So, you’ll have all the support you need to build the successful future you want.

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Meet some of the team

Andrew Shoreman, Learning and Development Business Partner

Andrew Shoreman, Learning and Development Business Partner

What I particularly love about working here is the variety that I have within my role. FMUK is fast paced and constantly evolving. So there’s always something new to get my head around and I feel like I’m constantly being challenged. The environment is friendly and fun to work in, with great people and a relaxed atmosphere across the business. And I’ve found that the company is progressive and always looking at ways to improve. So your ideas, thoughts and input can, and will, be heard - regardless of your role.

Elias Petzold Ebai, QA & NPI Manager

Elias Petzold Ebai, QA & NPI Manager

Since I joined Futaba over 15 years ago, I’ve gained experience in most areas of the company, which has helped me grow both personally and professionally. I really enjoy the capacity to successfully complete a wide range of responsibilities. Each day brings something fresh and exciting in either the processes or the people. It’s a supportive organisation that recognises that people are its most valuable asset. I’m treated with respect, my contributions are recognised and people tend to band together to accomplish a shared objective. Futaba also supported me with a work visa and gave me the resources to pursue my Master of Science degree.

Latest vacancies

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