Impact Recruitment Services Ltd

02/09/2026

PRODUCTION OPERATIVE WANTED 🏭

📍 Flitwick (MK45) Bedfordshire
🕑 Monday-Friday 6:00am-2:30pm, Friday 6:00am-12:00pm (Weekends OFF)
💷 £12.71ph
📄 Temp-to-Perm

✨ Benefits:
✔ Weekly pay
✔ Full training provided
✔ Temp-to-perm opportunity
✔ Clean and tidy working environment
✔ Supportive team

🔨 Duties:
• Accurately assembling and packing products at the end of the production line
• Assembling a variety of packaging products
• End of line finishing and rework
• Monitoring the production machines
• General production duties

✅ Good attention to detail
✅ Able to work with small, intricate products
✅ Reliable and ready to start immediately
✅ Team player

Interested? Call us on 01604 239555.

02/09/2026

COUNTERBALANCE FORKLIFT DRIVER WANTED 🚜

📍 Corby
🕗 Rotating Shifts: Mon–Fri, 6am–2pm / 2pm–10pm
🌙 Night Shift: Sun–Thurs, 10pm–6am
💷 £15.14–£15.62 per hour (All breaks paid)
📄 Temp-to-Perm

✨ Benefits:
✔ All breaks paid
✔ Overtime paid at x1.5 & x2
✔ Training and career progression
✔ Temp-to-perm opportunity
✔ Stable, long-term role

🔨 Duties:
• Operating a Counterbalance Forklift Truck
• Moving materials around the warehouse
• Banding and strapping products
• Supporting other warehouse departments
• Maintaining health & safety standards

✅ Valid Counterbalance FLT licence
✅ Physically fit and comfortable with manual handling
✅ Able to work to deadlines
✅ Team player with a strong work ethic
✅ Reliable and safety-conscious

Interested? Apply here:

We are recruiting a Counterbalance Forklift Driver on an ongoing basis. If you're a motivated individual who's not afraid of physical work, this could be the right opportunity for you. To succeed in this role, you must be a team player with an excellent work ethic.

02/09/2026

PRODUCTION OPERATIVE WANTED 🏭

📍 Kettering (NN15)
🕗 Monday–Friday, 8am–4:30pm
💷 £12.71 per hour
📄 Temp-to-Perm

✨ Benefits:
✔ Weekly pay
✔ Full training provided
✔ Temp-to-perm opportunity
✔ Clean and tidy working environment
✔ Supportive team

🔨 Duties:
• Packing products for dispatch
• Assembling a variety of products
• Tying off loose strings
• Using a metal detector conveyor
• General production duties

✅ Good attention to detail
✅ Able to work with small, intricate products
✅ Reliable and ready to start immediately
✅ Team player

Interested? Apply today by calling 01604 239555.

25/08/2026

What an onsite recruiter actually notices on the shop floor 🧐

Most recruitment agencies only see the vacancy.

An onsite recruiter sees the operation behind it.

When recruitment is embedded into a manufacturing environment, the conversations change. It stops being about filling gaps quickly and starts becoming about understanding why those gaps exist in the first place.

An onsite recruiter notices the patterns that are easy to miss from a distance...

🏃🏻 Shift leaders constantly moving people around to cover the same areas.

📈 Departments with higher turnover than the rest of the site.

🦺 New starters struggling during certain shifts or stages of training.

🕛 Overtime becoming the default solution instead of the exception.

😠 Small frustrations on the shop floor that slowly turn into retention problems.

These details matter because they directly affect output, morale and long-term workforce stability.

The advantage of having recruitment embedded onsite is visibility. Problems are spotted earlier, workforce planning becomes more accurate, and hiring decisions are made with a much clearer understanding of the operation ✅

The strongest manufacturing businesses treat recruitment as part of operational performance, not just an admin task.

How much visibility does your current recruitment model really give you?

20/08/2026

For too long, recruitment in manufacturing has sat on the operational sidelines. A gap appears on the shift, a recruiter gets called, a shortlist arrives, and the cycle repeats.

When you’re juggling last-minute sickness, sudden shift gaps, and seasonal spikes, "reactive hiring" is stressful and hurts your bottom line through missed output and skyrocketing overtime costs.

In the latest August edition of All Things Business, we shared why manufacturers across Northamptonshire are shifting away from standalone recruitment and moving towards embedded, onsite recruitment partnerships.

What happens when Impact Recruitment becomes a core part of your operational planning?

🦺 Total visibility: Being embedded on the shop floor means seeing production schedules, tracking absence trends, and spotting workforce needs before they become business-critical.

🦺 Proactive pipelines: Instead of starting from scratch when a role opens, we build talent pipelines and forecast demand up to 6 months ahead.

🦺 Retention-first strategy: Our onsite recruiters are there every day. We catch engagement dips, support new starters through induction, and resolve issues before they turn into leavers.

The businesses getting the most value out of their workforce are the ones treating recruitment as part of operational success.

👉 Read the full feature in All Things Business (August Edition)

Get in touch with our team today to talk about your business pressures, and we’ll give you a straight answer on how an onsite solution can work for your operation.

14/08/2026

Many businesses try to manage permanent recruitment in-house to save money.

And on the surface, it seems straightforward enough: write a job spec, post it online, sift the applications.

But the hidden costs add up 👀

🫠 Management time spent screening and interviewing unsuitable candidates.
🤨The risk of a bad hire staying in post for months before the problem is addressed.
😑The disruption of starting the process again.

A specialist recruitment partner brings sector knowledge, a pre-qualified candidate database, and the ability to move quickly and accurately.

Working with a recruiter who understands what good looks like, and has relationships with candidates who aren't on the general job boards, typically delivers a faster, better result.

Not every recruiter is the same. Sector expertise matters.

Our team have the experience you need.

12/08/2026

As we head into the busiest trading periods of the year, many operations and warehouse managers are asking the same question: do we have the headcount to keep things moving?

Peak season can arrive quickly.

Whether you're in distribution, manufacturing or logistics, the pressure to fulfil orders, maintain shift coverage and keep productivity levels up doesn't let up.

Starting the conversation with your recruitment partner early means you can build a temporary workforce that's trained, compliant and ready to go without the last-minute scramble.

If you're planning for peak, now is the time to act.

We work with businesses across Northamptonshire to provide scalable staffing solutions that flex with your operation 🦺

10/08/2026

After a difficult first half of the year for logistics operators, there are early signs of relief. Input price pressures and transport surcharges that spiked earlier in 2026, driven largely by fuel volatility linked to Middle East supply disruption, have started to soften as diesel prices ease back from their spring peaks. For distribution and logistics operations across Northamptonshire’s Golden Triangle, that’s a welcome change after months of managing cost increases that were, in many cases, simply passed straight through.

But cost stabilisation doesn’t fix the problem that’s been building underneath it for longer: keeping hold of good logistics supervisors and warehouse talent heading into the Q3/Q4 peak.

Q3 and Q4 preparation is when logistics operations are least able to absorb turnover. New starters need time to learn site-specific processes before volumes ramp up, and supervisors carry institutional knowledge that’s difficult to replace quickly. Businesses that treat retention as an ongoing priority, rather than something to address once someone hands in their notice, go into peak season with far more operational stability.

Where we can help most right now isn’t just filling vacancies as they come up. It’s understanding what’s actually driving turnover in specific warehouse and supervisory roles across Daventry and Northampton sites, and building a resourcing plan around it before peak season pressure sets in. We stay close to the operational reality of a site rather than working from a generic job description, because retention and recruitment are the same conversation in this market – you can’t fix one without understanding the other.

Operators who prioritise retaining experienced logistics supervisors and warehouse staff now will go into peak season with the operational continuity that reactive hiring simply can’t replace once the pressure is already on.

06/08/2026

WAREHOUSE OPERATIVE WANTED 📦

📍 Swan Valley, Northampton (NN4)
🕗 Rotating Shifts (7am–3pm / 2pm–10pm)
💷 £12.71–£25.42 per hour
📄 Temp-to-Perm

✨ Benefits:
✔ Paid breaks
✔ Weekly pay
✔ Overtime available
✔ Free hot & cold drinks & fruit
✔ Subsidised canteen
✔ Staff discount events
✔ Full training provided

🔨 Duties:
• Loading and unloading deliveries
• Moving stock using pallet trucks
• Picking, packing, and dispatch
• Labelling products and updating records
• General warehouse duties

✅ Good attention to detail
✅ Comfortable with manual handling (up to 20kg)
✅ Basic computer skills
✅ Team player with a positive attitude

Apply here:

We are looking to recruit 2 x Warehouse Operatives for our Prestigious client based in Swan Valley, NN4. This is an excellent opportunity to join a global clothing brand at their Northampton distribution centre.

06/08/2026

PRODUCTION PACKER WANTED 📦

📍 Wellingborough
🕑 Monday–Friday, 2pm–10pm
💷 £13.86–£20.79 per hour
📄 Temp-to-Perm

✨ Benefits:
✔ Full training provided
✔ Temp-to-perm opportunity
✔ Overtime available
✔ Long-term career prospects

🔨 Duties:
• Packing finished products
• Operating packing machinery
• Refilling production lines
• Quality checking and completing production records
• Keeping the work area clean and safe

✅ Good attention to detail
✅ Reliable with a positive attitude
✅ Good communication skills
✅ Able to work in a fast-paced environment

Apply here:

Our client is looking for reliable Production Packers to join their team in Wellingborough on a temporary-to-permanent basis. The role involves packing finished products efficiently while ensuring all quality and safety standards are met. This is an excellent opportunity to work for a long-establish...