Autonomous Vehicle Build Technician

Mars Recruitment; Reading; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Mars Recruitment is assisting a stealth robotics company in Reading to recruit an Electro-Mechanical Build Technician who will build sub-assemblies and test autonomous underwater or unmanned vehicles, shaping prototypes with the hardware team.

Candidates should have an engineering qualification and hands-on experience with electro-mechanical assembly, PCB work, and reading drawings; security clearance (SC) may be required; role offers £40,000-£45,000 per year plus benefits.

Qualifications

• Engineering qualification (apprenticeship, BTEC, HNC/HND) required.
• Experience in high-tech electro-mechanical assembly with early-stage prototypes.
• Desirable: experience with autonomous vehicles.
• Ability to read engineering drawings and fault-find at component level.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Familiarity with modern manufacturing techniques.

Responsibilities

• Build sub-assemblies for autonomous vehicles and perform testing.
• Collaborate with design and hardware teams to improve prototypes.
• Help develop and organize the lab/workshop space for scaling.

Skills

Engineering qualification

Electro-mechanical assembly

Autonomous vehicles experience

PCB assembly & soldering

Read engineering drawings

Fault-finding and testing

Wire harnessing

Strong communication skills

Modern manufacturing techniques

Education

Engineering qualification (apprenticeship/BTEC/HNC/HND)

Job description

Autonomous Vehicle Build Technician | Reading | £40,000pa - £45,000pa plus benefits:

A once in a lifetime opportunity has arisen for an Electro-Mechanical Build Technician who is passionate about building and testing robotics based autonomous vehicles. My client is a stealth robotics company based in the Reading area and they are seeing rapid scale-up, product development and investment. This amazing business is developing next generation underwater robotic vehicles which has massive potential across a range of different industry sectors, including defence, security, environmental and SeaLife monitoring.

The successful Electro-Mechanical Build Technician will play a key role in sub-assembly build, testing, and working closely with their design and hardware teams on how their prototypes can be improved. This role will also be instrumental in developing their lab and workshop space over the coming years. You will truly be able to influence and help shape this amazing device over the coming years.

If you're passionate about robotics within the maritime industry and the autonomous vehicle and unmanned vehicle industry, you honestly need to make contact with us, this one is not to be missed. Candidates must be British Citizens or have lived in the UK for a minimum of 5 years, due to needing SC clearance.

Preferred Experience:

• An engineering qualification, either apprenticeship, BTEC, HNC/HND level
• Experience of working within a high tech electro-mechanical assembly role, ideally with early-stage prototypes
• Experience of working with autonomous vehicles is highly desirable
• Knowledge of complex mechanisms, PCB assembly, soldering, fault-finding and the tools used to component level, and wire harnessing.
• Ability to read engineering drawings.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Familiarity with modern manufacturing techniques and processes.

If you're passionate about both robotics, in particular autonomous underwater or submersible vehicle and unmanned vehicle industry, and you love building and testing within this space, please get in touch ASAP.

MARS Recruitment is an equal opportunities employer and positively welcomes applications from suitably qualified applicants regardless of race, colour, sex, marital status, national origin, religion, age, disability, or any other protected status. Suitable candidates for the role will be contacted within 3 working days, unfortunately if you haven't heard back in this time your application has been unsuccessful at this time

MARS Recruitment is a specialist Engineering & IT recruiter working in partnership with companies across the UK and offers services of both an Employment Business (for Temporary/Contract roles) and an Employment Agency (for Permanent roles)