Senior Technical Engineer - Manufacturing & Servicing
New Yesterday
Location - Malvern - 1 day a week home working
Role benefits - Competitive Salary + 25 days holiday+ Bonus + Pension and more
Partners in Discovery. Together, we achieve more.
About the role
Are you passionate about delivering products to operations that are not only innovative but also easy to manufacture and support? As our Senior Technical Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring our new products are optimised for production and service from the outset. You'll lead design reviews, embed best practices like DfM and DfS, and work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth transitions into Operations minimising sustaining overhead and maximising product quality and efficiency.
What you will bring to the role:
- Drive Effective Design Reviews:
Facilitate structured design reviews across the entire product lifecycle, ensuring cross-functional stakeholder input and resolving manufacturing and serviceability issues early in development
- Lead Product Industrialisation Activities:
Manage the smooth transition of new products into Operations, ensuring design intent aligns with manufacturing, assembly, testing, and service capabilities
- Champion Design for X (DfX) Methodologies:
Lead DfM, DfA, DfT, DfQ, and DfS activities throughout development, and establish practical guidelines and standards to embed these principles in NVI projects
- Provide Expert Manufacturing & Service Guidance:
Advise product teams on manufacturing methods, assembly/test processes, and service considerations, while proactively recommending design improvements to enhance manufacturability, serviceability, and quality.
- Supplier & Operations Collaboration:
Work closely with suppliers to optimise system and subassembly designs for quality, cost, and manufacturability, and support internal manufacturing teams during nursery cell builds and pilot production phases
- Knowledge Transfer & Continuous Improvement:
Develop training materials, deliver workshops, and ensure effective knowledge sharing to upskill Operations teams in DfX best practices and manufacturing readiness.
- You hold a degree in Mechanical, Electronics or Manufacturing Engineering, or have equivalent experience
- You bring 7+ years of experience in manufacturing engineering or related fields
- You're experienced in DfM, DfA, DfS, and other design optimisation methodologies
- You have a strong understanding of manufacturing processes, assembly techniques, and service operations
- You've successfully transitioned products from development to production
- You're confident leading design reviews and implementing improvements.
- You're skilled in value engineering techniques
- You're a great communicator and collaborator, able to work across multiple teams and projects
- Be a part of an ambitious, fast-growing, international company with a friendly and inclusive culture.
- Drive growth within a leading global organisation whose purpose is to work with our customers, to make the world a better place
- Be a key member of our team in our amazing offices
- Gym discounts
- Volunteering days and much more
About us - Malvern Panalytical, Micromeritics and SciAps.
Together we are a powerful and highly complementary combination of market leading technologies.
We are the toolmakers for the world's most innovative companies, academic institutions, and government laboratories. We are their partners in discovery.
Malvern Panalytical instruments analyze the chemical, physical and structural nature of materials, from proteins to polymers and semiconductors to minerals. Our leading technologies measure particle size, shape, concentration and zeta potential, biomolecular interactions and stability, elemental concentrations and crystallographic structure.
Micromeritics manufactures systems for the characterization of particles, powders, and porous materials for a wide- range of end markets including catalysts, chemicals, building materials, clean-tech and battery. Our leading technologies measure surface area, porosity, density, adsorption and particle activity.
SciAps specializes in portable X-ray fluorescence (XRF), laser-based (LIBS) and near-infrared (NIR) analyzers to measure any element in any environment. SciAps is the Center of Excellence for our handheld instruments.
We have a global footprint with R&D and manufacturing sites in North America, Europe, and Asia.
We are more than 2,500 employees in a customer-focused organization with sales and service offices in 20 countries, all committed to delivering expert and responsive customer support.
Part of Spectris plc, a publicly traded FTSE 250 company, Spectris combines precision with purpose, delivering progress for a more sustainable world. Precision is at the heart of what we do - our leading, high-tech instruments and software equip our customers to solve some of their greatest challenges to make the world cleaner, healthier and more productive.
Malvern Panalytical, Micromeritics & SciAps
Your Partners in Discovery
Malvern Panalytical, Micromeritics and SciAps, part of the Spectris Group, are committed to a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can thrive and achieve a fulfilling career. Changing the world isn't something you can do on your own, or with a single way of thinking; it takes a wide collection of experiences, stories, knowledge, and expertise. We encourage applications from underrepresented individuals and people with diverse backgrounds. Although we always select the most qualified applicant for each role and make all decisions without regard to race, sex, age, or any other protected class, we are an inclusive, equal opportunity organization that prizes diversity. Your unique perspective is important to us. #J-18808-Ljbffr
- Location:
- Malvern, England, United Kingdom
- Salary:
- £100,000 - £125,000
- Category:
- Engineering