Jobs

Continental Sports Ltd is a third-generation, family owned manufacturing business located in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire where we operate from our 100,000 square feet factory, warehouse and office space.

We manufacture, supply, install and maintain equipment for sports halls, physical education, gymnastics, trampolining (including trampoline parks) and changing rooms.

We currently have vacancies for:

Position	Brief	Detailed job specification
Fabrication Team Leader	We are looking for a hands-in Team Leader to supervise, motivate and train a team in our engineering fabrication department. Allocating and managing our resource and priorising fabrication to ensure production deadlines are met, this role will suit a fabricator welder with great organisational skills who can lead a team.
Technical Sales Executive	Our products are sold mainly to project specifiers such as architects and Main Contractors who are designing and constructing new sports and leisure facilitie. We demonstrate best value to our customers by providing appropriate and accurate technicial information which ensures our equipment is designed to suit the needs of the end user and can be accomodated within the building. We have an opportunity for a Technical Sales Executive to join our team - ideal for someone with attention to detail, an interest in technical matters and engineering, and who wishes to develop skills in techical drawing, provision of technical information, quotation building and technical project sales.
Field Service Engineer / Maintenance Technician	Our Maintenance Division is looking to recruit a number of Field Service Engineers to grow our team following recent major contract wins. Visiting schools, colleges, universities and leisure centres to undertake preventative and reactive maintenance on a range of sports and PE equipment your valuable skills ensure the equipment is safe for use by children and adults.
Fabrication Engineer	Our Operations Team is looking for experienced fabrication engineers / welders to join our production team. If you would like to make trampolines, gymnastics equipment, sports hall equipment and a whole host of standard and bespoke steel products and have a minimum of Level 2 NVQ Diploma in Fabrication and Welding Engineering, then this role would be ideal for you.
Maintenance Manager	Our equipment maintenance team undertake planned preventative maintenance and reactive maintenance on sports, gymnastics and physical education equipment under contract across the UK. We have an exciting opening for a motivated, organised person to manage the team of technicians.
Sales Administrator	We are looking for a person to join our team to provide administrative support to our sales team.
Stores Purchasing Assistant	Our Purchasing Team are looking for a purchasing assistant to join them to purchase materials, deal with purchasing adminstration and to kit up from stores for projects undertaken by our installation teams
Installation Engineer / Fitter	Due to increased growth in our projects fitting out sports facilities in the UK we are looking for Installation Engineers / Fitters. Working mainly on new build sports facility projects installing all manner of sports and physical education equipment mainly across the UK this role would suit experienced shop fitters / HVAC installers / technical site based installers.
Planning coordinator	As a result of significant growth in our installations operations we are looking for a well-organised and methodical Planning Coordinator to improve our project planning process. Acting as the glue between sales, drawing office, manufacturing, logistics and installations you will coordinate the planning of our projects to ensure everything that needs to be made is ready on time, it is delivered to the correct site in time for installation, and that the site is ready and expecting our installation engineers when they arrive. You will be key in ensuring we operate efficiently and will reduce wasted time and resources from abortive visits to sites.

Our team of some 85 people cover a wide range of skills and roles including:

Sales and marketing
Administration
Finance
Production planning
Installation management
Drawing office
Joinery
Sewing
Engineering (welding and machine shop)
Powder coating
Installation and maintenance technicians
Upholstery and mat making
Trampoline manufacturing technicians
General assembly
Dispatch, warehouse and stores
Canteen
Cleaning

A career at Continental can be long and rewarding - we have 35 employees each with more than 25 years service and members of our team reach 45 years service regularly.

We list any specific roles we are seeking to fill on our website above, but we also welcome speculative applications for roles. Please email your CV and covering letter to jobs@contisports.co.uk