Role: Sales Supervisor (Leeds)
- Location: 221 Pontefract Lane, Leeds LS9 0DX
- Salary: 45K Basic + Role Bonus - OTE £60K
The Role:
We’re looking for an experienced, commercially minded Sales Supervisor who leads by example and takes responsibility for getting results. This is a hands-on role combining active selling with the daily supervision of our sales team.
Your immediate priority will be to improve sales performance: responding quickly to enquiries, converting quotations into orders, developing existing accounts and winning back customers who have reduced or stopped buying.
You will bring structure, pace and accountability to the team, ensuring opportunities are followed through and customers receive accurate, professional service. Alongside delivering today’s sales, you will identify opportunities and help build a practical plan for sustainable, profitable growth.
You will be expected to make effective use of our existing CRM, reporting tools and business systems, with a clear focus on productivity, cost control and return on investment.
Key Responsibilities - Deliver Sales & Protect Profitability:
- Personally handle enquiries, prepare accurate quotations, follow up opportunities and close orders.
- Take responsibility for agreed individual and team targets covering sales, gross margin, quotation conversion and customer retention.
- Proactively contact existing, dormant and declining accounts to understand their needs and secure further business.
- Develop new business through targeted prospecting, referrals and customer relationships.
- Apply agreed pricing and discount controls, understanding the impact of commercial decisions on profitability.
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Supervise Daily Sales Activity:
- Set clear daily and weekly priorities, allocate enquiries and ensure every opportunity has an owner and a next action.
- Monitor enquiry response times, outstanding quotations and overdue follow-ups, stepping in where progress is slipping.
- Run short, focused team reviews to agree actions, remove obstacles and check progress.
- Coach colleagues in customer conversations, lead qualification, quoting, objection handling and closing.
- Address missed actions and performance concerns promptly, escalating where necessary.
Use Systems & Information Effectively:
- Ensure the team consistently uses the existing CRM to record customer contact, opportunities, next actions and outcomes.
- Use existing reporting tools to identify sales trends, declining accounts, lost opportunities and areas requiring action.
- Provide concise weekly reporting on results against target, the sales pipeline, expected orders and corrective actions.
- Improve working practices and adoption of existing systems, supporting any proposed additional expenditure with a clear business case.
Support Future Growth:
- Maintain a practical rolling 90-day sales improvement plan, balancing immediate opportunities with longer-term account development.
- Feed customer insight, reasons for lost orders and product opportunities into wider commercial decisions.
- Work with marketing colleagues and external partners on targeted activity, ensuring generated enquiries are followed up and outcomes tracked.
- Work closely with estimating, purchasing, operations and customer service to ensure quotations and delivery commitments are accurate and achievable.
- Maintain company quality and service standards throughout the sales process.
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About You:
- A proven sales background, with clear evidence of achieving targets and improving results.
- Experience supervising a sales team or taking responsibility for the daily performance of others.
- Confident managing the full sales process, from prospecting and qualification through to quotation, follow-up, closing and after-sales.
- Commercially aware, with a sound understanding of gross margin, pricing, discounting and the cost of winning business.
- Organised and persistent, with the discipline to ensure enquiries and quotations are followed through.
- Comfortable using CRM systems, spreadsheets and sales reports to decide what action is needed.
- Able to coach and motivate colleagues while holding them accountable for agreed actions and standards.
- Resourceful and cost-conscious, with a practical approach to improving results using the tools and people available.
- Able to deliver immediate priorities while planning for future growth.
- Experience in B2B and Ecommerce sales within manufacturing, engineering, distribution or a related environment would be advantageous.
What We Offer:
- Competitive salary and benefits - 45k basic + role bonus - OTE £60k.
- A tailored bonus scheme linked to clearly defined sales and profitability measures.
- Internal and external training and development.
- The opportunity to make a direct contribution to business performance.
- Career development opportunities as the business and your responsibilities grow.
Benefits:
- Company pension.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Employee discount.
- Free parking.
- Store discount.
Trainee Plastic Fabricator
- Pay: £12.71-£14.21 per hour
- Hours: Full time
- Location: Leeds
DIY Enthusiasts Wanted!
Do you love DIY? Enjoy carpentry, making things, or working with your hands? If so, you could build a brilliant career as a Trainee Plastics Fabricator with us at Barkston Plastics Engineering.
We’re looking for someone practical, curious, and motivated — someone who enjoys problem‑solving, measuring, cutting, assembling, and creating. If you’ve ever built furniture, renovated a room, crafted something from wood, or tinkered in a workshop, you already have the foundations of what makes a great plastics fabricator.
This entry‑level role offers full training in specialist plastics fabrication techniques, including cutting, bonding, forming, CNC processes, and assembly. You’ll learn how to turn sheet plastics into high‑quality bespoke products used across multiple industries.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Assisting experienced fabricators in cutting, shaping, and assembling plastic components.
- Using hand and power tools (similar to those used in carpentry and DIY projects).
- Learning specialist fabrication techniques such as heat bending and solvent bonding.
- Measuring, marking out, and preparing materials with accuracy.
- Supporting the assembly of finished products following clear instructions and drawings.
- Keeping your workspace organised and safe.
- Developing mechanical and fabrication knowledge through hands‑on training.
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What We’re Looking For:
- No previous plastics experience required — full training provided.
- A genuine interest in DIY, carpentry, making, fixing, or building things.
- Familiarity with hand tools (saws, drills, sanders, clamps, etc.).
- Good attention to detail and pride in producing neat, accurate work.
- Willingness to learn new techniques and follow instructions.
- Basic understanding of workshop safety is helpful but not essential.
Why This Role Is Perfect for DIY Makers:
Plastics fabrication shares many of the same principles as carpentry: measuring, cutting, joining, shaping, and finishing. If you enjoy practical work and want a career where every day is different, this is a fantastic pathway into a skilled trade with long‑term progression.
What We Offer:
- Full, structured training in plastics fabrication.
- Supportive team environment.
- Opportunities to progress into skilled fabricator role.
- A varied workload — no two jobs are the same.
- A stable, rewarding career in a growing industry.
- If you’re hands‑on, enjoy making things, and want to turn your practical skills into a professional trade, we’d love to hear from you.
If you wish to apply, attach your CV and send to HR@barkstonltd.co.uk quoting reference: /TraineeFab.
- Telephone: 0113 519 9537
- Email: hr@barkstonltd.co.uk
- Web: https://barkstonltd.co.uk/contact/
- Indeed Jobs: https://uk.indeed.com/jobs?q=barkston+plastic+engineering&l=Leeds
PLASTIC FABRICATOR
- Pay: £12.71 - £15.72 per hour.
- Hours: Full time.
- Location: Leeds.
Do you have some experience of welding?
Do you want to work in a forward thinking, supportive environment that produces varied goods for clients across the world? Are you hard working, keen to learn and able to use your own initiative? If yes, we may have the right opportunity for you. We are looking for for experienced and junior fabricators to join our team! Becoming a fabricator with Barkston Plastic Engineering Limited will allow you to build a wide range of manufacturing skills within a supportive and successful business.
You will learn and quickly be able to work within the following:
- How to identify and understand the strengths and weaknesses of a variety of materials.
- Plastic welding, Line Bending, Bonding, Manual Tools, annealing ovens, Pillar drills, flame polishers and Diamond Polishing but not limited to.
- How to understand and follow engineering drawings and CAD models for projects from a variety of industries including pharmaceutical, emergency services and the car industry.
- How to fabricate units following a job sheet.
- Quality control and inspection procedures to BSI standards.
- How to use power tools such as routers, Welding Guns, angle grinders safely.
- Recognised manufacturing standards for housekeeping, maintenance etc such as 5s.
- How to identify and manage maintenance needs for a manufacturing unit.
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Pay will depend upon skills and experience that you bring to the role. We are located on a park and ride bus service close to Leeds and work primarily set day shifts (options of 6.00am - 2.30pm Monday to Thursday & 6.00am – 12.00pm Friday / 8.00am - 4.30pm Monday to Thursday / 8.00am - 2.30pm Friday). As an employee you will receive 22 holidays per year plus 8 bank holidays.
Desired skills:
- Welding.
- Ability to follow instructions.
- Attention to detail.
- Communication skills.
- Able to use initiative.
Barkston Plastics Engineering Limited has a long serving workforce and is looking for the next set of skilled staff to develop their careers.
Benefits:
- Additional leave.
- Company pension.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Free parking.
- Life insurance.
- On-site parking.
- Sick pay.
If you wish to apply, attach your CV and send to hr@barkstonltd.co.uk quoting reference: /PlasticFab.
- Email: hr@barkstonltd.co.uk
- Web: https://barkstonltd.co.uk/contact/
- Indeed Jobs: https://uk.indeed.com/jobs?q=barkston+plastic+engineering&l=Leeds
SENIOR CNC ROUTER OPERATOR
- Pay: £18.00 - £20.00 per hour.
- Hours: Full time.
- Location: Leeds.
We’re looking for an experienced Senior CNC Router Operator to join our day shift team. If you’re confident in the running and setting of machines— and enjoy coaching apprentices — this role gives you both technical ownership and leadership responsibility.
The Role:
- Program, set and operate CNC routers to produce high quality components.
- Read job packs and select correct materials, tooling and machining strategies.
- Maintain workflow, monitor progress and update the Production Supervisor.
- Troubleshoot issues and support maintenance to minimise downtime.
- Keep the work area clean, safe and compliant with all standards.
Training & Leadership:
- Train and mentor apprentices and new CNC operators.
- Carry out on the job coaching and competency assessments.
- Support cross training and guide operators through daily tasks.
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About You:
- Strong CNC router experience and confident programming skills.
- A proactive problem solver with excellent attention to detail.
- Supportive, clear communicator who enjoys developing others.
What You’ll Get:
- Competitive hourly rate.
- Day shift hours with an early finish on Fridays.
- A supportive team and opportunities to grow.
Benefits:
- Company pension.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Free parking.
- On-site parking.
Hours:
- Monday – Thursday 08:00am – 16:30pm / Friday 08:00am – 14:00pm.
If you wish to apply, attach your CV and send to hr@barkstonltd.co.uk quoting reference: /SenCNCRout.
- Email: hr@barkstonltd.co.uk
- Web: https://barkstonltd.co.uk/contact/
- Indeed Jobs: https://uk.indeed.com/jobs?q=barkston+plastic+engineering&l=Leeds
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