Position: Full Stack PHP Developer in Laravel
Location: Role to be office based in Boundary Park, Deeside with travel between sites as and when required.
Summary
* Monday to Friday 8am – 5pm
* Office based with local travel between sites as required
* 33 days holiday per year
About the Company
Ifor Williams Trailers Ltd is Britain's leading trailer manufacturer, operating at five advanced manufacturing sites across North Wales. The company was established in 1958 and to date has manufactured over half a million. The wide product range includes Livestock, Horsebox, General Duty, Tipper, Plant, Flatbed, Box Van trailers, Car Transporters, and pick-up Canopies. The customer base is equally diverse, ranging from the agricultural community to the plant and commercial industry and the leisure sector. The company's philosophy is to design and manufacture trailers of the highest quality that combine the latest technology with strength, durability, ease of maintenance and value for money.
About the Role
As Ifor Williams Trailers look to further enhance their market presence, we are recruiting a Full Stack PHP Developer who will join the business and work on developing web systems for each of our five Advanced Manufacturing Sites in North Wales. Your main focus will be to ensure that all Ifor Williams Trailers PHP systems are delivering against the business requirements. You will be responsible for working with 3rd party contractors, the internal IT team and key internal stakeholders to co-ordinate and deliver development improvements to unlock operational efficiencies and objectives. Working individually and as part of a wider development team, you will take ownership of the programming development tasks and be expected to accurately test your work and feedback to key stakeholders before going live with your developments. This is an exciting and varied role that will mean you will get involved with all areas of within the business. You must be prepared to use your PHP development knowledge and experience and apply it practically to solve real world operational challenges. This is an exciting time to join Ifor Williams Trailers, develop your career and make a real impact in a dynamic and forward-thinking organisation.
Responsibilities
* Responsible for understanding project briefs from key stakeholders, converting them into a programme of development activity, ensuring that all programming changes are fit for purpose and that all testing and implementation is completed within agreed timescales.
* Work closely with system experts within the business and 3rd party programming experts to work rapidly and efficiently, whilst mitigating any system downtime or system error risk.
* Ensure all PHP developments integrate seamlessly with IWT's systems and prioritise effective RESTful API and SQL integration for reliable cross-platform data flow.
* Work on PHP developments with the user in mind, ensuring intuitive and easy to understand interfaces and flows are developed.
* Accurately document all tasks issued, progress made against tasks and feedback your progress to the business on a regular basis.
* Make recommendations in terms of how programming or PHP infrastructure could be improved, always maintaining the stability of any codebase that you have introduced.
* Understanding of application security best practices (OWASP, authentication, authorisation, data protection).
Qualifications
* 5 years plus of Full Stack PHP programming experience, ideally working in an environment or in a business where key stakeholder briefs need to be converted into workstreams.
* Good knowledge and experience programming in PHP, MySQL and MSSQL.
* You must have experience in TALL Stack, a full-stack development solution used for building powerful, modern, and reactive Laravel applications. The TALL stack consists of four essential parts: Tailwind CSS, Alpine.js, Laravel, and Livewire.
* Excellent knowledge and experience of Laravel, but also able to navigate different and more historic code frameworks.
Required Skills
* A flexible and enthusiastic team player with a passion for understanding real world business challenges and problem solving through programming development.
* Willing to understand systems, explore older code bases, learn from mentors, and rigorously test and system impacts before programming deployment.
* Demonstrates a sense of urgency and a desire to deliver against agreed targets.
* Good interpersonal skills with an ability to communicate clearly across the organisation at all levels.
Pay range and compensation package
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Equal Opportunity Statement
We are committed to diversity and inclusivity in our hiring practices.
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