Northamptonshire

Technical Manager

Technical Manager (Keyline Civils Specialist)

As a Technical Manager within the Technical Team at Keyline, you will provide specialist technical support to our National and Regional sales teams across multiple infrastructure sectors including housebuilding, highways, commercial, rail, energy, and utilities. Your primary responsibility is to respond to technical enquiries from branches, key account managers, and customers, translating complex technical requirements into practical product solutions. You’ll work closely with the Head of Technical and fellow Technical Manager to process enquiries efficiently, ensuring our sales colleagues have the expert knowledge they need to support customer conversations and identify commercial opportunities.

A significant part of your role involves working on infrastructure projects through our optioneering process. When customers present projects to Keyline, you’ll be contacted to assist by understanding their brief and specification requirements, conducting research to identify products that meet design criteria, and presenting multiple options with impartial technical advice. You’ll produce outline designs, options reports, and material alternatives summaries that help contractors and consultants make informed decisions. This engineered solutions approach positions Keyline as more than a merchant – you’ll ensure solutions are affordable, buildable, and meet design specifications whilst identifying opportunities for value engineering and carbon savings.

Innovation and supplier engagement are core to the Technical Manager role. You’ll actively work with manufacturers and suppliers to identify innovative products and materials, developing relationships that bring new solutions to market. This includes evaluating new suppliers, assessing product performance and carbon credentials, coordinating technical trials, and managing supplier partnerships across our extensive supply chain. You’ll be expected to stay current with industry developments, understand emerging technologies, and proactively present innovative alternatives to both internal teams and external customers. Your supplier relationships will be critical in ensuring Keyline maintains its position as the UK’s leading civils merchant.

Training and knowledge development represent a key pillar of your work. You’ll create sector-specific product guides, deliver internal training sessions to sales teams, and develop technical resources that elevate product knowledge across the business. This includes conducting CPD sessions, organising supplier training events, arranging site visits and factory tours, and producing technical communications. You’ll also engage with external industry groups and working bodies to help develop design guidance and contribute to industry best practice. Your ability to translate technical expertise into accessible training materials will directly impact our colleagues’ confidence and capability.

The role requires regular engagement with Tier 1 and Tier 2 contractors to promote innovative products and build Keyline’s technical reputation in the infrastructure market. You’ll attend project meetings, provide on-site technical support, engage with consultants and designers at the specification stage, and position the Technical Team as a collaborative partner rather than just a supplier. This contractor engagement drives early involvement in projects, creates faster lines of communication, and provides early visibility of technical challenges. Your success will be measured by your ability to convert technical expertise into commercial opportunities, support sales growth across multiple sectors, and strengthen Keyline’s reputation as a technically-led civils merchant.

The position is based at our head office in Northampton, though the nature of the role requires significant flexibility in working location. You’ll be expected to work from branches, national offices, and from home as required to support the business effectively. Regular travel across the UK is essential, both by car and train, to attend customer sites, supplier facilities, training sessions, and contractor meetings. The role will require overnight stays on occasion, within reason, to fulfil project and engagement commitments. A full UK driving licence is therefore essential.

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Data Analyst

13 Month FTC 

Hybrid Role- With one day per week in our Head Office in Duston, Northampton 

Do you work in a Data Analyst position and are looking for a new challenge? We may have the perfect position for you!

As an International Freight Data Analyst you will secure ongoing data integrity and support current visualisations. You will also scope and manage continuing and future projects to further data-led decisions within the international freight team.

What you’ll do:

Data Collection: Gather, verify, and ensure data is fit for purpose; identify new data sources and automation opportunities to support standard team measures.

Data Cleaning: Detect and resolve data errors, inconsistencies, and gaps; transform data for analysis.

Data Analysis: Produce monthly KPI dashboards for internal/external stakeholders and iteratively improve dashboards to reveal trends and insights.

Data Interpretation: Translate data into actionable insights for the International Freight team, supporting process review, spend analysis, and forecasting; produce the monthly executive summary.

Data Automation: Develop automated data feeds (API/EDI) and use BigQuery to enhance data accuracy and streamline reporting.

Data Presentation: Present findings clearly to internal stakeholders; manage IFS communication channels including Google Sites and newsletters.

What you’ll need to have:

  • Have or working towards a Data qualification such as a Data technician

  • Experience working with Google sheets and looker studio. 

  • SQL and Python knowledge would be preferred but not essential

  • The ability to manage complex data sets and to build visualisations and present analysis

  • Ability to work to deadlines and present at various levels within the business

  • If you’ve previously worked within Freight then that would be a benefit 

What’s in it for you?

You’ll be supported by some of the best training and development in the industry. Our impressive internal succession programme means, whatever it is you do with us,  it will be easy for you to learn, grow and develop across the Travis Perkins Group. We’ll also equip you with a benefits package that grows as you grow with the company:

 * Competitive performance related bonus

 * Save-as-you-earn scheme

 * Buy-as-you-earn scheme

 * Contributory pension scheme

 * Colleague discount 

A bit about us

As the largest distributor of building materials in the UK, Travis Perkins has been helping to build Britain for over 200 years.

With over 5 businesses, 16,000 colleagues and more than 1,200 branches, stores and sites around the UK we believe we have the best people and the best place to work. Everyone works hard together to deliver results, but most importantly, have some fun along the way! 

TP/SF/3

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Branch Sales Manager

Branch Sales Manager – Keyline, Northampton, NN3 6TE (Lead, Motivate, Inspire)

Who We Are

Keyline is proud to be part of Travis Perkins plc. Helping to build Britain for over 200 years. Keyline Civils Specialist is one of the businesses that form Travis Perkins plc, making it one of the largest suppliers of building materials to the UK’s building and construction industry.

Operating from branches, stores and sites around the UK, Travis Perkins plc pride themselves on having the best colleagues and being the best place to work. Every business in the Group does all that they can to deliver best-in-class products and service to each and every customer from their expert local teams. 

The Group businesses serve a full range of building material customers – from small trade and DIY customers to large developers, house builders and national rail, road and infrastructure projects.

About Keyline: https://www.keyline.co.uk/content/breaking-new-ground

What You’ll Be Doing

As Branch Sales Manager, you’ll be all about making connections, hitting sales targets, and building killer customer relationships. You’ll team up with clients (and sometimes the branch) to craft business plans that keep things moving. You’ll be a whiz with pricing, reports, and CRM tools to stay on top of it all. Your goal? Hit those sales and profit targets while offering a standout deal to every customer. When issues pop up, whether it’s pricing, payments, or service, you’ll jump in and solve them fast. You won’t manage the team (that’s up to the Branch Manager), but you’ll make sure everyone’s working together to get things done!

What’s In It For You?

Joining the UK’s largest builders’ merchant means endless growth opportunities. You’ll be part of a supportive team where your skills truly matter. With over 500 branches nationwide, there’s always room to learn, progress, and make a real impact.

We offer:

  • Competitive salary with performance-based bonuses
  • Save-as-you-earn & Buy-as-you-earn schemes for smart financial growth
  • Generous pension scheme
  • Exclusive discounts across various businesses (including 20% off at Toolstation)
  • Wellbeing support to help you feel your best
  • MyPerks discounts at top retailers, restaurants, and more!


Working hours: Monday to Friday, 7:30 am – 5:00 pm  Enjoy your weekends off!

What You’ll Be Responsible For

  • Sales Strategy Development: Collaborating with the Branch Manager and Sales Team to develop and execute a sales strategy that grows existing customers and attracts new ones.
  • Team Engagement: Engaging the branch team to ensure everyone is aligned and actively contributes to the sales plan.
  • Product Knowledge & Profitability: Using your product knowledge to offer the best solutions, drive profitability, and suggest alternatives when needed.
  • Market Awareness: Monitoring local competition and working with the external sales team to create customer strategies that add value and boost sales.
  • Business Plan Review: Reviewing business plans for your customers and supporting plans for others within the team.
  • Sales Promotions & Supplier Collaboration: Driving branch and regional sales promotions while collaborating with suppliers to maximise sales opportunities.
  • Safety Leadership: Leading safety initiatives and ensuring the branch maintains a strong safety culture.

Who You Are

You’ll need to be:

  • Experienced & Motivated Full UK Driving Licence with 2+ years of front-line sales experience and a proven track record in developing customer relationships.
  • Customer-Focused & Collaborative Strong communication, negotiation, and relationship-building skills, with the ability to work well within a team and influence others.
  • Strategic & Insightful Able to think strategically, plan ahead, and use data to generate insights and make recommendations.
  • Passionate & Resilient A self-motivator with a passion for sales, exceptional customer service, and the resilience to succeed.
  • Market-Savvy Knowledgeable about the local market, competition, and relevant product offerings, with a focus on delivering results.

How to Apply

Ready to be part of something big? Apply now and join a company that values its people. We can’t wait to hear from you!

We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to building a diverse team. No matter your background, we believe in giving everyone the chance to succeed.

If you’re offered the role, it will be a conditional offer, subject to a few background checks. These include a criminal record check (basic DBS), adverse financial check, media search & occupational history review. We do this to ensure we’re keeping both our business and customers safe, and we appreciate your understanding.

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Security Manager

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Security Manager

We are seeking an experienced Security & Loss Prevention Lead to oversee, manage and provide subject matter expertise across all security and loss-prevention activities within the designated area of responsibility. This role is responsible for implementing the Group Security Strategy; proactively and reactively assessing, managing and mitigating security-related risks using an enterprise security risk management approach; and developing cost-effective solutions to address threats, vulnerabilities and losses. The successful candidate will ensure all security investigations are thorough, exhaustive and appropriately escalated, while maintaining regular, effective communication with key stakeholders including Senior Leadership, Managing Directors, Regional and Branch Managers, and Security teams across all Merchant Brands. Acting as the primary subject matter expert for physical security, the role will also drive continuous improvement in security standards, processes and enterprise security risk management across the business.

Principal Accountabilities 

  • Identify and mitigate security risks by conducting independent assessments, understanding control environments, and implementing frameworks and solutions to protect people, property and assets.

  • Support Security Investigators on high-risk site visits, including planning and managing investigations, allocating resources, gathering data, conducting interviews, and producing formal reports.

  • Maintain strong engagement with stakeholders by building effective relationships, providing valuable input into decision-making, meeting regularly with Regional Directors and teams, and delivering training, updates, dashboards and reports.

  • Develop team members through coaching, mentoring, on-the-job training and identifying development opportunities, while promoting continual improvement and best practice.

  • Drive value and cost-effectiveness by ensuring spend aligns with anticipated loss, applying civil recovery where appropriate, and identifying innovative, efficient ways of working.

  • Manage a field security team of 4, develop strategies aligned to the current risk landscape, and support the creation and implementation of company security policies.

  • Monitor, review and report on all areas of security risk, ensuring follow-up on incidents, conducting equipment surveys on high-risk sites and providing relevant data to senior leadership.

  • Act as the primary point of contact for security concerns in Corporate Offices and Distribution Centres, delivering timely communication, professional training and expert recommendations on security matters.

  • Operate effectively in real time with strong prioritisation skills to ensure operational targets and reporting deadlines are consistently met.

What’s in it for you?

Not Sure you Qualify? We’re driving to become a truly inclusive employer, where everyone in our Group feels safe, welcome and confident to be their authentic selves – you be you, it makes us, us, as we say. If you’re interested in this opportunity but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might be just the right candidate for this or other roles with us.

You’ll be supported by some fantastic training and development and have the opportunity to learn, grow and develop across the Travis Perkins Group. 

We’ll also equip you with a benefits package that grows as you grow with the company:

  • Competitive bonus

  • Save-as-you-earn scheme

  • Buy-as-you-earn scheme

  • Contributory pension scheme

  • Life assurance

  • Colleague discount across a variety of Group businesses

A bit about us

As the largest distributor of building materials in the UK, Travis Perkins has been helping to build Britain for over 200 years.

With over 5 businesses, 16,000 colleagues and more than 1,200 branches, stores and sites around the UK we believe we have the best people and the best place to work. Everyone works hard together to deliver results, but most importantly, have some fun along the way!

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HSE Rehire Compliance Advisor

12month FTC 
A full UK driving licence is an essential requirement. 
This is a national role with regular travel throughout the whole of the UK, including overnight stays 

You will be the expert for rehire supplier compliance within the Travis Perkins Group , playing a key role in safeguarding the quality and integrity of our supply chain. You will be responsible for ensuring that all approved suppliers supporting our Hire business meet essential legislative requirements and operate as safe, reliable and trustworthy partners.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Act as the main Subject Matter Expert (SME) for rehire supplier compliance, providing expert guidance on relevant H&S and hire-specific legislation (e.g., LOLER, PUWER) to internal stakeholders, including the Hire Category and Stay Safe teams.

  • Plan, schedule, and conduct a regular programme of comprehensive on-site supplier audits across the entire UK, managing all associated travel and logistics effectively.

  • Risk profile the rehire supplier base utilising a combination of the online supplier questionnaire and on site audits

  • Drive supplier development and continuous improvement by supporting suppliers in implementing effective corrective actions, providing clear guidance, and promoting industry best practice.

  • Develop close links with the Travis Perkins Stay Safe team in order to stay up-to-date with respect to H&S legislation, requirements and best practise.

  • Identify common areas where there are opportunities for improvement, and then work with suppliers and stakeholders to offer improvement initiatives (for example, supplier engagement sessions)

What you’ll need to have:

  • Proven experience in a field-based auditing role, specifically conducting on-site H&S, environmental, or quality audits.

  • A strong working understanding of product safety legislation alongside H&S legislation, especially as applicable to the hire of equipment and machinery 

  • Experience in supply chain management especially the risk assessment of suppliers.

  • Demonstrable experience of managing a complex, national travel schedule.

  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to communicate with and influence a diverse range of stakeholders 

  • Strong time management, planning, and organisational skills to manage a demanding audit schedule.

What’s in it for you?

Not Sure you Qualify? We’re driving to become a truly inclusive employer, where everyone in our Group feels safe, welcome and confident to be their authentic selves – you be you, it makes us, us, as we say. If you’re interested in this opportunity but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might be just the right candidate for this or other roles with us.

You’ll be supported by some fantastic training and development and have the opportunity to learn, grow and develop across the Travis Perkins Group. 

We’ll also equip you with a benefits package that grows as you grow with the company:

  • A car through EBS 

  • Competitive bonus

  • Save-as-you-earn scheme

  • Buy-as-you-earn scheme

  • Contributory pension scheme

  • Life assurance

  • Colleague discount across a variety of Group businesses

A bit about us

As the largest distributor of building materials in the UK, Travis Perkins has been helping to build Britain for over 200 years.

With over 5 businesses, 16,000 colleagues and more than 1,200 branches, stores and sites around the UK we believe we have the best people and the best place to work. Everyone works hard together to deliver results, but most importantly, have some fun along the way!

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Lead Platform Engineer

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Lead Platform Engineer

What will you do? 

Travis Perkins have recently completed a data centre exit programme which has migrated all of our operational services into AWS as our primary cloud provider. We’re now embarking on an optimisation and modernisation phase which will look to transform these traditional services to take better advantage of cloud native technologies.

An opportunity has arisen for a Lead Platform Engineer within our Tech & Data function who will be responsible for designing, building, maintaining and running cloud based infrastructure for both traditional and cloud native platforms. Using cloud technologies and automation tooling you will define, follow and contribute to good design practices, standards, documentation and approaches to create and run scalable, secure & reusable platforms to meet business requirements, predominantly in AWS.

The ideal candidate for this role will have previous experience of transforming traditional enterprise workloads to take advantage of more modern platform approaches such as container orchestration using Kubernetes and cloud native technologies. 

This role is Hybrid working, so travel to our Travis Perkins head office based in Northampton is required twice a week!

Some accountabilities of the role: 

  • Responsible for the design, development and adoption of automated, scalable and secure cloud platforms and CI/CD pipelines for the strategic delivery of technology solutions. Coauthor proven design patterns for solving common business problems. (Delivery of solutions)

  • The engineer will lead the support and maintenance of any infrastructure or platform components to ensure they are operating within supported version and configuration envelopes in order to provide the safest and most secure environment possible. (Patching and security compliance)

  • Responsible for co-authoring and maintaining a catalogue of tools, standards, patterns and documents that support our use of our public cloud platforms and overseeing adherence by other platform engineers. Provide architectural assistance to maintain the highest standards of delivery across the team. (Documentation and standards)

  • Serve as an escalation point to resolve the more complex technical issues and queries for Cloud platforms and automation tooling, and assist with architectural challenges. (Support and escalation)

  • Using the latest tooling design and implementing logging, monitoring, alerting, backup and DR solutions to be used in conjunction with deployed platforms from development all the way through to production to ensure an agreed level of service can be maintained. (Non functional requirements)

  • Mentor, coach and lead training for other members of the team such as platform and support engineers to help build their skills and confidence. Provide technical guidance and ensure that quality, standards and best practices are adhered to. (Mentoring and knowledge sharing) 

  • Continuously assess and optimise the performance, security, and cost-effectiveness of the platform infrastructure. Lead with decommissioning plans where systems / platforms are no longer required. Provision the most cost effective cloud platforms only when required and scaling as appropriate (commercial awareness)

  • Proactively develop skills as required to support the fast-changing technology landscape and stay up to date with these technologies to help determine if they may be fit for purpose for consumption within the business (training, development & innovation)

What you’ll need to have/be:

  • GCSE’s + related A level / BTEC standard or L3 Apprenticeship

  • Any industry specific qualifications or certificates

  • 5+ years software development, operations infrastructure support or platform engineering experience

  • Extensive experience with CI/CD and/or GitOps toolsets, building automated pipelines and platforms in cloud as well as infrastructure deploy, build exposure.

  • Cloud Technology awareness – ideally AWS & GCP

  • Agile, Scrum, iterative software development processes

  • Extensive skills using multiple automation tools including Ansible, Terraform, AWS, GCP, Gitlab

  • Designing, Deploying and supporting infrastructure using IAC

  • Good knowledge of both infrastructure and developer practices.

  • A good knowledge of pipelines and Continuous Integration

  • Good Knowledge of designing,  and deploying platform and infrastructure environments

  • Knowledge of containers and serveless and microservices

  • Knowledge of networking principles

  • Knowledge of security practices

  • Good leadership skills 

What’s in it for you?

Not Sure you Qualify? We’re driving to become a truly inclusive employer, where everyone in our Group feels safe, welcome and confident to be their authentic selves – you be you, it makes us, us, as we say. If you’re interested in this opportunity but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might be just the right candidate for this or other roles with us.

You’ll be supported by some fantastic training and development and have the opportunity to learn, grow and develop across the Travis Perkins Group. 

We’ll also equip you with a benefits package that grows as you grow with the company:

  • Competitive bonus

  • Save-as-you-earn scheme

  • Buy-as-you-earn scheme

  • Contributory pension scheme

  • Colleague discount across a variety of Group businesses

A bit about us

As the largest distributor of building materials in the UK, Travis Perkins has been helping to build Britain for over 200 years.

With over 5 businesses, 16,000 colleagues and more than 1,200 branches, stores and sites around the UK we believe we have the best people and the best place to work. Everyone works hard together to deliver results, but most importantly, have some fun along the way!

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Warehouse Operative (Monday to Friday)

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Join our friendly and hard-working family at CCF. Enjoy working for the industry-leading brand with great benefits and opportunities for career progression.
The role
The role is varied with no two days being the same. One minute you will be unloading supplier deliveries, the next picking orders or maybe serving customers on our trade counter.
What we are looking for?
When it comes to your existing skills and experience, personality is the first thing we look for. You will be provided with all the training and support needed. What we want is someone who can warmly connect with customers, is quick to learn and used to working accurately at pace.
Rewards
A competitive salary, generous holiday allowance, company pension scheme, discounts across the Travis Perkins Group (including Toolstation), company share save schemes and discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking to theme parks and cinemas.
About us
Despite our size, we have the values of a family run business and the mindset and ambition of a forward-thinking Company. We offer our employees access to extensive career opportunities across our 5 eading businesses operating nationwide within the TP Group. If, like us, you put customers at the heart of everything you do, you can expect to be rewarded with a full benefits package and a salary that grows with you as you grow in our business.
We’re driving to become a truly inclusive employer. We want everyone to be at their best and it’s our ambition that everyone within our Group feels safe, welcome and confident to be their authentic selves. 
You be you, it makes us, us.
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