Challenging jobs in Wakefield

Browse 191 live challenging jobs in Wakefield, with a typical salary around £48,500. New roles are added daily — click any listing to view the full details and apply directly on CV-Library.

Live challenging jobs
25
Salary range
£1,200 – £81,000
Typical salary
£48,500
Most common
Permanent

Head of Regional Field Sales

📍 Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom💰 Salary not shown🏢 Quickline Communications

Comfortable setting clear expectations, constructively challenging underperformance and holding people accountable. Highly organised, resilient and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-moving…

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Registered Nurse

📍 LS11, Holbeck, City and Borough of Leeds💰 £21.14/hour🏢 Exemplar Health Care

You'll also be. a great role model – able to coach, teach and support your colleagues. someone with a calm nature who can deal with, and defuse, challenging situations. an advocate of best practice in…

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Fractional COO / Operations Director

📍 LS19, Rawdon, City and Borough of Leeds💰 £800 - £1200/day🏢 Genesis Labels

Confidence working closely with business owners and constructively challenging existing ways of working. Experience gained within larger organisations may be relevant, but you will need to demonstrate…

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Senior Architectural Technologist

📍 Leeds💰 £45000 - £55000/annum🏢 Conrad Consulting Ltd

Having achieved the prestigious Investors in People Gold Award and actively working towards AJ100 status, the practice continues to strengthen its reputation across a diverse range of commercial secto…

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Management Accountant

📍 Wakefield, West Yorkshire💰 £45000 - £52000/annum plus benefits🏢 Optimum Recruitment Group Limited

Confidence working with non-finance stakeholders and challenging assumptions. Good understanding of P&L, Balance Sheet and cash-flow relationships. Strong systems aptitude and an interest in improving…

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Quality Manager

📍 LS10, Leeds ICD, City and Borough of Leeds💰 £50000/annum🏢 Thrive Personnel

Confident challenging and resolving quality issues. Good understanding of relevant manufacturing standards and compliance requirements. What the Role Offers. Salary: Circa £50,000 per annum. Location:…

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Finance Business Partner

📍 Leeds💰 £50000 - £60000/annum Bonus, Hybrid, Pension🏢 Axon Moore

Challenging assumptions and providing commercially focused financial insight to help improve business performance. Supporting the development and monitoring of KPIs and performance metrics across the…

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HR Manager

📍 Bradford💰 £45000 - £47000/annum🏢 Unity personnel

Comfortable challenging when required. Hands on approach. Measures of Success. Improved consistency in the management of employee issues. Stronger probation and performance-management processes. Impro…

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Financial Administrator

📍 Leeds City Centre💰 £25000 - £28000/annum🏢 Talent-UK Ltd

This is an interesting and challenging role that would suit a confident, resilient and professional individual who enjoys using their initiative and someone who has a positive & organised working styl…

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Lead Employee Relations Specilaist

📍 Bradford, West Yorkshire💰 £42000/annum🏢 Anchor

Reporting to a People Services Delivery Partner you will be a senior member of the People Services Delivery team, providing expert guidance on complex people matters, employment law and organisational…

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Architect

📍 Leeds💰 £40000/annum🏢 Conrad Consulting Ltd

This programme is expected to provide a secure workload for the next two years, offering the opportunity to gain valuable experience on technically challenging projects with significant social impact.…

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Site Engineer

📍 Wakefield, West Yorkshire💰 £50000 - £55000/annum Car & Package 🏢 Setting Out Solutions Group Ltd

This is a site-based role suited to an Engineer with a strong Civil Engineering background who is comfortable working across technically challenging heavy civils projects. Your responsibilities will i…

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Senior Estimator

📍 Leeds, West Yorkshire💰 £75000 - £87000/annum package🏢 Gold Group

Obtaining, reviewing and challenging supplier and subcontractor quotations. Identifying commercial risks, opportunities and potential value engineering solutions. Working collaboratively with bid, ope…

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FP&A Manager

📍 Leeds, West Yorkshire💰 £68000 - £75000/annum🏢 Hamilton Woods

This role is particularly suited to someone who enjoys looking ahead, challenging assumptions and helping shape business decisions, rather than focusing predominantly on historical management reportin…

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OHL Engineer

📍 Leeds, West Yorkshire💰 £70000 - £90000/annum🏢 Advance TRS

You should be confident taking ownership of complex engineering packages, communicating with clients and stakeholders, reviewing technical work and providing practical solutions to challenging design…

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Key Account Manager

📍 Leeds, West Yorkshire💰 £28000/annum🏢 Huntress - Leeds

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to handle challenging conversations and turn difficult customer situations around. Strong organisational skills and exceptional atten…

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Estimator

📍 Leeds💰 £30000 - £50000/annum🏢 Humres

The business delivers technically challenging projects across land remediation, enabling works, bulk earthworks, contaminated land, soil and groundwater treatment, ground stabilisation, drainage, grou…

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Key Account Relationship Manager

📍 Leeds💰 £30000 - £32000/annum🏢 First Response Group

Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with confidence handling client enquiries, complaints, and challenging conversations professionally. Commercially minded with the ability to identify…

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Principal Mechanical Engineer

📍 Leeds, West Yorkshire💰 £60000 - £75000/annum🏢 Aldwych Consulting

The role offers exposure to a broad range of technically challenging environments, including. Data centres and critical facilities. Live plant upgrades. Data halls and close-control environments. Fina…

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Performance and Assurance Lead

📍 Leeds, West Yorkshire💰 £500 - £600/day Outside IR35🏢 Advance TRS

Be comfortable challenging existing processes and ways of working. Take a practical and proportionate approach to governance and assurance, avoiding unnecessary complexity. Demonstrate resilience when…

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Mechanical Maintenance Engineer

📍 Mirfield💰 £45000 - £49000/annum🏢 Aqumen Recruitment

If you're an experienced Mechanical Maintenance Engineer who enjoys being hands-on, tackling challenging breakdowns and making a genuine difference to production performance, this could be the ideal n…

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Ward Manager

📍 Leeds, West Yorkshire💰 £47000 - £52000/annum🏢 Search Consultancy Ltd

Managing challenging situations and responding effectively to changing service requirements. Supporting and mentoring student nurses and less experienced colleagues. Promoting continuous professional…

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Principal Design Engineer

📍 Leeds, West Yorkshire💰 £68000 - £80000/annum🏢 Calibre Search

You'll work directly with construction and geotechnical teams during constructability and value engineering reviews, helping determine how challenging pieces of infrastructure are going to be designed…

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Serious Injury Fee Earner

📍 Wakefield, West Yorkshire💰 £35000 - £55000/annum DOE🏢 Sue Ross Recruitment Ltd

Robust - able to deal with changing circumstances and challenging situations whilst still achieving objectives. Your KPI's and Objectives will be discussed and agreed with you on a one-to-one basis. Y…

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Repairs Surveyor

📍 Bradford💰 £43459 - £44709/annum null🏢 Niyaa People Ltd

Scrutinising contractor costs and challenging unnecessary or excessive expenditure. Ensuring repair works provide value for money and are appropriate to the identified defect. Managing relationships w…

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