Build your career at RHF Fans
CAREERS WITH RHF
Find the route that fits you
You do not need to have your whole career mapped out before joining RHF.
Some people begin through an apprenticeship. Others join us directly and learn from experienced colleagues. As your skills and confidence grow, you can take on more responsibility, learn different parts of the business or develop specialist expertise.
We are interested in people who are willing to learn, take pride in their work and bring a strong work ethic.
Every fan we make starts as sheet steel and leaves our Irlam factory as a finished product built to each customer’s unique requirements.
That takes practical skill, technical thinking and commercial know-how. Discover the different ways you can join our team, learn new skills and build your career with us.
Where could you fit?
CAREER ROUTES
-
Practical careers
Turn drawings and materials into finished industrial equipment.
Opportunities across our factory include fabrication, welding, fitting and assembly, painting and finishing, testing and quality.
-
Technical careers
Help specify, maintain and improve the products we make.
Technical opportunities can include product development, service and maintenance, quality assurance and continuous improvement.
-
Commercial careers
Help customers find the right solution and support each order from enquiry to delivery.
Commercial opportunities can include purchasers, sales administration, estimating and account management.
-
Contracts and coordination
Keep customer orders moving through the business.
Contracts and coordination roles help plan production, manage timescales, keep customers and colleagues informed, arrange haulage and export documents, and close completed jobs.
Earn, learn and get involved
APPRENTICESHIPS
Our apprentices learn on the job at RHF while completing formal training with Train’d Up.
You will not be kept in one corner of the factory. You will work alongside different experienced people as the jobs coming through RHF change, helping you understand how a fan is manufactured from start to finish.
Our current apprenticeship routes include:
- Welding and fabrication
- Fitting and service
We plan to expand our apprenticeship opportunities as the business and its training needs develop.
YOUR CAREER DOES NOT HAVE TO FOLLOW ONE STRAIGHT PATH
Where you start at RHF does not have to determine where you finish.
You might join in an office-based role and discover an interest in production, service or technical work. You could start on the shop floor and later move into quality, coordination, estimating, sales or another part of the business.
Development can mean moving into a more senior position, transferring to a different part of RHF or becoming a specialist in a particular area. As you learn how the whole business works, you can explore different roles and find the type of work that best suits your strengths and interests.
For example, someone in an administration or trainee role could move into coordination, estimating, account management, business development or technical sales. Similar opportunities to learn, move and progress exist across the factory and wider business.
Opportunities depend on your skills, performance, the needs of the business and the roles available.
DEVELOP PRACTICAL SKILLS AND TAKE ON MORE
We invest in additional training that helps our people work safely, build confidence and take on new responsibilities across the business.
- In-house crane training and competency sign-off
- Forklift truck training
- First-aid training
- Face-fit mask training
- Banksman training
-
WORKING ON THE SHOP FLOOR
See a product come together from start to finish
Every RHF fan is built to a customer’s requirements here in Irlam, Manchester.
Our fabricators cut and form the steel. Welders join the parts. Fitters bring the motor, impeller and casing together. The fan is then painted, finished, checked and tested before leaving the factory.
You will work alongside people with different skills and see how every department contributes to the finished product.
-
Service and quality
Make products more reliable and support customers when it matters.
Coordinate engineers, site visits and repairs
Investigate warranty and recurring quality issues
Develop planned maintenance and condition monitoring
Support ISO 9001 audits and factory quality
-
Contracts
Keep every order moving from purchase order to completed job.
Build the production plan across departments
Balance deadlines with factory capacity and downtime
Keep customers, managers and colleagues informed
Arrange export paperwork and invoicing
-
Sales
HELP CUSTOMERS FIND THE RIGHT SOLUTION AND BUILD LASTING RELATIONSHIPS
Respond to enquiries and understand what each customer needs
Develop product knowledge and support technical fan selections
Prepare costing, quotations and structured follow-up
Build strong customer relationships and develop new opportunities
-
ClaireI've worked at RHF for 11 years, first as Service Manager helping clients resolve quality and site issues, and for the last four years I've also taken on our ISO 9001 Quality system. What's kept me here is the people — the staff make it a genuinely welcoming place, always ready to help each other out. RHF is also a business that's supportive of its people and open to new ways of working, which makes it a great place to build a long-term career.
Service Manager
-
Mark"I've been part of the Contracts and Accounts team at RHF for 16 years now. I genuinely enjoy my job and the people I work alongside, and being local makes it even better. Throughout my time here, the directors have always supported me — not just professionally, but personally too — and that's made a real difference to how I feel about working here."
Sales Director
-
ZachI have worked allover the buisness and learned so much
Floor Manager
YOUR NEXT STEP
INTERESTED IN BUILDING YOUR CAREER WITH RHF FANS?
To ask about current opportunities or register your interest in working with us, email the RHF team at sales@rhf-fans.co.uk.
If you have questions about the apprenticeship training and learning programme, you can also contact our training provider, Train’d Up, at enquiries@traindup.org.
