R&D Engineer

Main duties

• Participating in defining a relevant voice of customer to identify pertinent and impactful developments, working with the marketing, sales, and production teams.


• Leveraging personal, existing internal knowledge, and external resources to effectively progress ideas and projects


• Conceiving, developing and perfecting new products and processes


• Developing existing products and processes


• Performing laboratory and pilot-scale trials to confirm hypotheses and address any initial complications


• Organizing and driving scaled up/production trials for products and processes under development, to perfect manufacturing procedures


• Contributing to the production of written manufacturing procedures in relation to new products and ensure successful production through monitoring and assistance.


• Leveraging laboratory equipment to enhance understanding of the material properties of our products


• Ensuring compliance with health, safety and environmental procedures within the scope of their mission, with the help of management


• Contributing to the taking out of patents, and publication of academic literature


• Providing technical support to internal stakeholders


• Running technical missions at the clients' facilities when required.


• Maintaining our understanding of our critical competitors’ features, to drive our competitiveness.

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for a self-driven, teamwork-oriented individual that is passionate about innovation. Key attributes include:

• A drive for results - being able to achieve and exceed project goals successfully, making the right decisions, being bottom-line oriented, while steadfastly pushing themself and others for results.


• Project management skills - knows how to implement the principles, techniques, and tools used in planning, control, monitoring, and review of projects. Ability to manage a portfolio of projects with interdependencies, mobilising the necessary resources for the project purpose.


• Efficient communicator – clear and concise report writing and presentation. Agility to adjust the materials to fit the audience, strongly getting the message across.


• Teamwork – will be a part of a varied technical team, the candidate must be confident and capable when working with others


• Independence – the candidate must be able to effectively progress self-driven idea generation (literature/market review) and scoping projects


• Curiosity and a keen interest in learning – required to quickly become well-versed in our products and processes, in addition to effectively adapting to shifting market needs and new markets

Essential

Education: A master’s degree in engineering or science, or equivalent extensive experience

Professional experience: at least 3 years required

Salary - up to £44,000 depending on experience.