Development Engineer – Chemistry. All Experience Levels – 17817 Ref: 17817

Does this sound like you?

+ Are you looking for an exciting, varied role where you can learn from entrepreneurial colleagues on a mission to innovate?
+ Are you enthusiastic about working in a small supportive team where decisions are made rapidly and you can influence those decisions and make your mark delivering and developing products?
+ Would you be comfortable in front of customers, from scoping projects to delivery, commissioning, and ongoing support of finished systems?
+ Do you have an inquisitive mind and a quest to keep learning and improving?

If so, we'd love to hear from you.

You might be trying to finish your PhD, picking up the kids from childcare or watching Breaking Bad. Either way, if you have a Chemistry Degree, can solve a problem, and like interacting with people, you might be the ideal person for our A-team.

This opportunity is open to all experience levels – you may be just starting your career or have a wealth of experience.

Role Info:

Development Engineer – Chemistry
Harwell Oxford, Didcot OX11
Up to £65,000 Negotiable / Dependant on Experience
Values: Continuous Improvement, Teamwork, Building a Valuable Business, Developing as People, Having Fun!
Your Experience: Open to all experience levels – Graduate to experienced

Who we are:

We are a fresh, dynamic, fast-growing company that's bringing a revolutionary analytical instrument to market – the IRmadillo spectrometer. With over 10 years of experience, it’s not hard to believe that in the last two years, we have doubled our revenue year-on-year.

We're constantly improving our product offering and the way that we work. We are rapidly expanding our global customer base and are looking for someone who will fit into our agile team culture.

The Development Engineer Opportunity:

This is an exciting and varied role split across all facets of the business: customer support, application development, product design and improving our manufacturing processes.

We practise agile management methods and apply lean 6-sigma techniques. You’ll be working across all aspects of the business within a multidisciplinary team, including our in-house manufacturing facility. You will also be working directly with our international customers to support the product.

This position is based at our Headquarters on the Harwell Campus, Oxfordshire, England.

Some international travel will be required for customer visits and conferences.

Based on your talents, here are some examples of the types of teamwork you'd be involved in:

+ Proving out new applications for the IRmadillo FTIR spectrometer
+ Coordinating the delivery of successful customer projects
+ Developing and improving manufacturing processes
+ Testing hardware and software, both for manufacturing and development

About you:

This role is open to all experience levels – you may be just starting your career or have a wealth of experience. Either way, we want to speak with you!

+ Have a Degree or Equivalent in Chemistry
+ Understand what makes good customer service
+ Good at picking up the phone and talking to actual humans to get an issue sorted
+ Happy to work outside your comfort zone and take on new ways of working and challenges
+ Practically minded and live for the challenge of sorting out a problem
+ Like to make things happen and get stuff done
+ Like to play on a team, rather than be the lone wolf – we do all our work collaboratively

This role is open to all ages

Interested? Apply here with a cover letter explaining what you’re looking for in a job and why you’d be a great fit for the Hiring Manager to review directly.

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