R&D Lab & Workshop Technician (Electronics)

We have an opportunity for a Lab and Workshop Technician to join our thriving global client based in Cambourne, Cambridgeshire. The role is a full-time position working 37.5 hours per week (Monday – Friday) initially for 1 year with a possible extension. Our client’s Technology Solutions division is evolving. They are moving to a Product Operating Model, a new way of working that empowers product teams to take full ownership and accountability for delivering customer and business value in ways our customers love and that work for the business. Join them as they build the team that will develop and deliver our future generations of the Vence Collar, a product rich in technological challenges across multiple disciplines, with an advanced system architecture and connectivity. You will experience the success of your work in customers' hands, with short delivery cycles and quick customer feedback. Their product and platform teams are cross-functional and durable, bringing together all the skills required to deliver impactful outcomes. Each team includes a Product Manager, Technology Lead, Product Designer, Delivery Lead, engineers and developers, and solutions must be valuable, viable, usable and feasible. Leadership of the product team is shared between the Product Manager and the Technology Lead, ensuring balanced guidance that bridges product vision and technical execution. The role is to contribute to the hands-on work of R&D laboratory, workshop and stores area for a product team working on the development of a new connected Agritech product. You will be working with additional R&D technician and lab manager and a team of Product Designers, Mechanical Engineers and Electronic Engineers, you will have a major role in building and and maintaining our setups and test equipment as well as creating test jigs, 3D printing, assembling prototypes (PCBs, sensors and mechanical assemblies), and reporting results using a broad range of modelmaking equipment, latest measurement and mechanical test equipment and prototype PCBA assembly equipment.The role is part of a multi-site programme, working alongside teams located in California, USA and in Israel.