Linac is a leader in training and development. We are one of the Europe’s most forward thinking and fastest growing training consultancies.

We employ talented people from within the UK, Ireland, continental Europe and the Middle East, where our business operates.

A career with Linac is extremely rewarding - handling the professional development and growth of leaders and managers - and essentially influencing their lives and improving their capability - is something most people dream of but never achieve. At Linac, you’ll do this every day.If you are a talented individual who strives to develop business, build and manage customer relationships, develop individuals, teams and organisations and contribute to our wining team, you'll be valued and rewarded.  

Joining Linac will provide you with a challenging and rewarding career in a stimulating and commercial environment. If you are a high achiever and prepared to work hard will you thrive. In return, you will benefit from a supportive and friendly work environment with team working at its core, and receive the commitment to a long lasting and rewarding career.

Management Trainer - Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

As a Linac Trainer you will be responsible for analysing, designing, delivering and evaluating results based leadership and management development programmes across Linac's prestigious client base. In addition you will be expected to manage the client relationship and respective programmes. You will be a proven trainer with in-depth knowledge and experince of designing and delivering learner-led highly participative development programmes.

We are looking for:

To succeed in this exciting role, you must have:
• Experience of designing and delivering training programmes
• A proven track-record of achieving results from learning
• Demonstrable experience as a Manager Level trainer
• The ability to work on multiple programmes and to tight deadlines
• Exceptional learner-led design and delivery capability
• First-class communication and client management skills
• An analytical and highly organised approach
• IT literate
 
If you are interested in this position, please apply via email at andrew.terry@linac.co.uk, attaching your CV.

Linac is a dynamic learning and development solutions provider. The company encourages intense creativity and its diverse and talented people drive innovation. The technology side of the business has been developing Training and Learning Management Systems for the past eight years – and is now entering a phase of rapid expansion, developing products for all areas of training and learning management, resource management and HR. Clients include Unilever, Diageo, Speedy Hire, London Borough of Newham, Brandon Hire, TAC,  Aventis Pharma, NESTA, O2, Carlsberg, GlaxoSmithKline, ATOS Origin, Zurich International, and Jumeriah International. At Linac collaboration, exploration, learning and entrepreneurial autonomy are nurtured. A friendly sociable working environment can be expected.   

Role
The current recruitment drive means that various positions are currently available, and there is flexibility with specific skill bases, so candidates with skills crossing the various roles will certainly be considered. Your role will be concerned with liaising with clients, and managing a team of software developers and web designers, the core responsibilities are as follows:

• Maintain and develop relationships with current clients and future prospects
• Project management / team coordination
• Account management
• Managing multiple simultaneous software development projects
• Setting deadlines and key deliverables
• Briefing the designers and programmers
• Keeping track of progress and ensuring deadlines are met
• Maintaining quality control
•  Managing the business analysis and requirements capture process
• Assist the developers with establishing the scope of work, estimates, and resource plans

Experience
• You should have excellent interpersonal skills, and ideally would have experience working in a similar role within technology, or another analytical field
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Able to coordinate with technical leads, provide input on specific projects, and assist in collaboration on group standards

Role Development
Linac (being predominantly a training provider) considers career progression and personal development to be an absolute priority. Successful candidates can expect  - at minimum - support for self study, and full support (including exam fees) for relevant qualifications. On Successful application development plans will be compiled and agreed upon.

Benefits
Friendly, sociable working environment, town centre office location, company pension scheme, healthcare, dental plan, personal development plan.

Linac is a dynamic learning and development solutions provider. The company encourages intense creativity and its diverse and talented people drive innovation. The technology side of the business has been developing Training and Learning Management Systems for the past eight years – and is now entering a phase of rapid expansion, developing products for all areas of training and learning management, resource management and HR. Clients include Unilever, Diageo, Speedy Hire, London Borough of Newham, Brandon Hire, TAC,  Aventis Pharma, NESTA, O2, Carlsberg, GlaxoSmithKline, ATOS Origin, Zurich International, and Jumeriah International. At Linac collaboration, exploration, learning and entrepreneurial autonomy are nurtured. A friendly sociable working environment can be expected.

Role
The current recruitment drive means that various positions are currently available, and there is flexibility with specific skill bases, so candidates with skills crossing the various roles will certainly be considered.
For this position the following will comprise the main duties and responsibilities :
• Development of web based solutions with ASP.NET 2.0  - C# (CSharp) and SQL
• System architecture and database design
• Systems analysis, functional specification
• Management of source control, build and continuous integration across development, test and live environments
• Project management and team coordination
Our current systems are built around exciting technologies including continuous integration, code generation and the latest Microsoft development tools. You will be involved with maintaining and developing these systems as well as plenty of ‘File, New...’ development. You will be expected to research and keep abreast of new technologies to keep Linac at the cutting-edge of software development.

Qualifications / Experience
First and foremost – our main selection criteria is programming skill and technical ability. Extensive programming experience (especially working as part of a team) is crucial. The ideal candidate will have 3-5 years working in software development, 2 or more in the following

• Object oriented design and architecture
• Web development with ASP.NET (preferably 2.0)
• C# (CSharp)
• Regular Expressions
• HTML, XHTML and CSS and web standards
• JavaScript
• Relational database design and management with SQL Server
• XML and XSLT

Experience working with the following would be beneficial
• Agile software development methodologies
• Code generation systems (specifically CodeSmith)
• Continuous integration systems (specifically CruiseControl)
• Project management, including accurate estimation of timescales
• Client relationship management
• Systems administration and maintenance
• Source control solutions such as Team Foundation Server, SVN, Tortoise
• Graphic Design Packages such as Photoshop, Fireworks, Illustrator

If you feel that you are a technically excellent software engineer but are lacking experience in one or more of the specified areas and are willing to develop your skills in the required areas, we would be very happy to consider your application.

Role Development
Linac (being predominantly a training provider) considers career progression and personal development to be an absolute priority. Successful candidates can expect  - at minimum - on the job training, support for self study, and full support (including exam fees) for relevant Microsoft qualifications such as MCTS and MCPD. On Successful application development plans will be compiled and agreed upon.

Benefits
Friendly, sociable working environment, town centre office location, company pension scheme, high specification multi-core, multi-monitor workstations, cutting edge development tools, personal development plan, healthcare, dental plan, generous holiday allowances, team leading responsibilities, flexible working hours.

Office Administrator - Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

*PR/Office Administrator/Secretary
*£6.50 - £8.00 ph (depending on Experience)
*8.30 am - 5.30pm Monday to Friday
*13 Week Temporary to Permanent
*Tewkesbury until April then Cheltenham thereafter
*Central Cheltenham town location

Introduction
Linac Limited is one of the UK’s leading training consultancies. Linac offers a range of training and development solutions to its prestigious multi-national blue chip client base.
Linac is seeking a suitable applicant for the position of Office Administrator. You will work as part of a busy team in a fast paced office environment and would be expected to support Linac’s full time office based staff and its field based consultants.
The role will require you to be agile, self-managing and resourceful. Energy, determination and passion are critical attributes.
Responsibilities will include
• Answering inbound telephone calls, emails and dealing with enquires appropriately
• Meeting and greeting clients and visitors
• Liaising with clients over the telephone
• Keying in client updates and information on an in-house database
• Managing all of the office administration requirements – office supplies, overall organisation
• Filing, faxing, printing, post etc
• Working with WORD and EXCEL and Outlook predominantly creating spread sheets, letters and reports, mail merges etc
Person requirements

We seek a proven office administrator who possesses excellent communication skills and is articulate, well presented and who has lots of initiative and is able to work as part of a small and friendly team. You will be helpful and polite with a ‘Can Do’ attitude. Multi tasking will be second nature to you and you will have excellent organisational and typing skills.

Applying For This Position
Please contact Andrew Terry at andrew.terry@linac.co.uk and attach your CV explaining why you consider yourself suitable for the role.

As a graduate multimedia designer at Linac you will be a highly creative and technically capable person who will thrive in a busy environment. The ability to create media solutions that utilise latest multimedia technology is essential. A can-do attitude is key and you will love turning your hand to a range of simultaneous projects and assignments. Linac is seeking an individual who can bring a creative edge to the business.

Role Summary

As part of the on-going expansion of Linac technology business, Linac requires a skilled multimedia designer to work as part of a small dynamic team. You will be actively involved in creating multimedia design solutions for all aspects of Linac’s business from interactive systems, simulations and animations, 3D graphics, virtual environments, web site design and aesthetics, digital videos. You will possess solid programming and scripting skills using industry standards and software. You will also possess an understanding of the ethical, political, economic, cultural and creative debates surrounding new media technology.

Who we are

Linac is a dynamic blended learning solutions provider. The company encourages intense creativity and its diverse and talented people drive innovation. The technology side of the business has been developing for the past five years – and is now entering a very exciting phase, developing products for all areas of HR, training and learning management. At Linac, collaboration, exploration, learning and entrepreneurial autonomy are nurtured. The future will see Linac continue to expand its range of blended solutions, forge new exciting relationships, break into new markets and develop new innovative technology solutions. 

Role Duties & Responsibilities

• Multimedia and interactive analysis and design

• Creative 3D modelling and animation

• Creative digital video

• Managing new media projects

• Web design

• New media scripting

• Digital imaging and media

Qualifications / Experience

• BSc (Hons) Interactive Multimedia Design or BSc (Hons) Digital Media and Multimedia Technology Applications

• First and foremost the main selection criteria is, sound technical ability and knowledge i.e. programming and scripting ability and natural creativity.

• Project work examples will be required as part of the assessment process

• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills as well as the ability to work as part of a team are required

• Energy, determination and enthusiasm are all essential

What is on offer?

Successful candidates can expect to work in a forward thinking and supportive environment and receive remuneration and benefits in line with their contribution.If you are interested in this position, please apply via email at andrew.terry@linac.co.uk, attaching your CV.