Senior Research Engineer - Ansty, United Kingdom - Consilium Recruit

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3 weeks ago

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Description
The MTC (Manufacturing Technology Centre) is a major success story. One of the UK's most advanced Research & Technology Organisations, championing world leading manufacturing and engineering innovation.


Created in 2011, it represents one of the largest public sector investments in UK manufacturing and has since grown to a team of over 800 spread several facilities covering not only R&D, but also Training, Advanced Manufacturing Management and Factory Designacross multiple businesses and sectors.


Working in partnership with Consilium Recruit from launch, we seek career driven and agile talent from industry, academia, and other leading organisations to work in this truly unique centre of excellence.


Benefits - beyond salary, the MTC provides one of the most extensive and progressive benefits packages available, designed to inspire, develop and reward employees to the full including:

  • Fully flexible working including compressed hours, remote working, part-time hours, flexible start and finish times. And career breaks. Tell us what works for you and don't let anything stop you from applying
  • Enhanced Holiday leave with accumulated days plus option to buy & sell
  • Private Health Insurance from Vitality Health
  • Life Insurance
  • Generous Pension Scheme
  • Income Protection in the event of longterm illness or incapacity to work
  • Salary Sacrifice (tax efficient Bike 2 Work plus Car Lease Scheme including competitive onsite EV charging)
  • Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Paternity support
  • Professional subscriptions paid plus access to Leadership Academy
  • Long service recognition plus contribution awards
  • Envious working environment with free parking, excellent public transport links, employee discounts and onsite canteen, plus more

The Role


The Robotics Senior Research Engineer role is a wide ranging role primarily focused on the independent technical delivery of projects and leadership in the development of project related activities across the MTC, working across multiple technology departmentsand industrial sectors.


Duties and responsibilities include:


To lead project technical deliverables, taking ownership to ensure work meets or exceeds agreed customer requirements, and is delivered within agreed budgets and timescales.

Where delegated, to act as Technical Governance lead for project deliverables.

To undertake innovative Engineering research work focused primarily on technology/manufacturing readiness levels (TRL/MRL) 3+, and able to demonstrate industrial project delivery.

To support Senior Managers with a proactive approach in the identification, technical specification, and delivery of new and novel technology capability into the MTC, customers, or industrial member's premises.

The SRE role will require involvement in all aspects of the project delivery, taking overall ownership and ensuring compliance with all relevant standards, technical support of commissioning, management of project budget and deliverables.

The SRE role will involve line management of a small team, including responsibilities such as development conversations with the engineers, supporting the Resource Management function in project work allocation and managing team performance to ensure alignmentwith department targets.


The Person
A degree calibre engineer, in a related discipline: Computer-science, Robotics Engineering, scientist or mathematician.
Confident to advise external customers and create concept designs of automation solutions, right through to commissioning robotics/automation cells and equipment on site (FAT/SAT, CE marking of equipment or awareness);
Expert knowledge of automation and robotics systems and understanding of commercially available and developing technologies relating to: safety systems, robot programming, kinematics, dynamics, motion / pathway planning, closed-loop control system, computervision;
Design and development of robotic and automation technologies, and can demonstrate expertise in automation product development;
Knowledgeable or experienced of human/robot collaboration and co-botics, and/or tele-operation technologies and capabilities;
Must have experience in the delivery of research projects.
Ideally, experienced in industry and can clearly articulate knowledge of the manufacturing sector and deep understanding of manufacturing systems and technologies;
Desired, interest in robotics for sustainability.
Ideally working towards professional registration, Chartered professional qualification is desirable;
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