Product Development Engineer

We are excited to announce a new permanent opportunity for a Product Development Engineer located in Severn Beach, Bristol. In this role, you will play a critical part in supporting the Product Development team by investigating intricate product challenges, validating innovative design solutions, and enhancing our products and processes through thorough testing and development.

Key Responsibilities:

Product Engineering Issues on Released Platforms: Provide technical assistance and support to ensure:

• Selective engineering problems relating to design and or issues identified by customers are investigated in a thorough manner.
• Identification of root causes. Follow the PT problem solving methodology or 8D RCA investigation tools where necessary.
• Collation of evidence and reporting is concise and traceable.
• Use appropriate and or initiate new build documentation to support the assembly and test plans.
• Capable of interrogating BOM’s, ECO’s and DP’s effectively.

Product Improvements and Product Correction Validation: Provide technical assistance and support on product improvements and product corrections being implemented to ensure:

• From information provided by the design team, implement improvements to current released products including, control systems, plumbing, pneumatics and mechanical elements.
• Test documentation is developed to ensure product improvements are fully tested to ensure performance is appropriate and will meet customer expectations.
• Provide expert advice and guidance to production engineering and test department following any product improvement validation activities or outcomes from the product development team.
• Support corrective action requests, typically FRN (fault reports) and DP’s Deviation permits.
• Provide feedback to the design team as to the suitability and robustness of solutions, with particular attention to DFM, DFA and DFS is required.
• Products are manufactured and tested to the standards as set out in our documentation.
• Support the Manufacturing engineering team to keep documentation (SOP, Instructions) up to date.

Quality – Ensure quality is at the forefront of all your activities and ensure;

• Monitor, report and optimise product quality
• Upon assignment, Quality Notifications and customer feedback/faults on commissioning relating to product improvements, react in a timely and efficient manner.

Education / Qualifications:

• HND or higher (Mechanical, Electrical & Electronic disciplines).

Professional Skills/ Abilities:

• Substantial experience in electro-mechanical systems production engineering environment - preferably small batch, high technology system integration, ideally with machining/fabs.
• Experience in a fast-paced operations environment.
• Commercial awareness.
• Knowledge of Design validation methodologies, such as Design for Manufacture, Design for Assembly and Design for Service.
• Problem-solving skills.
• Recent and practical experience of mechanical and electrical assembly.

At Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology, we provide tools for the engineering of micro- and nano-structures, with customers using our process solutions to research and produce materials and semiconductors vital for everything from medical devices and diagnostics, to electric cars and quantum computers.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary
• 25 days annual leave + half-day Fridays
• Private healthcare
• Share incentive plan
• Pension scheme
• Flexible benefits tailored to your needs
• Structured career development opportunities
• A collaborative environment with excellent work-life balance

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