Product Development Engineer

Oxford Instruments Plc; Marsh Common; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

25 days annual leave + half-day Fridaz

Private healthcare

Share incentive plan

Pension scheme

Flexible benefits tailored to your nee

Structured career development oppor.

Collaborative environment with work‑l‑

Job summary

Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology is hiring for a Product Engineering role focused on released platforms. You will investigate customer-reported issues, identify root causes, and document findings thoroughly.

You will implement improvements from design teams, develop validation tests, and advise production and test departments to ensure robust solutions. Responsibilities include supporting corrective actions, validating DFx approaches (DFM, DFA, DFS), and ensuring products meet documented

Qualifications

• HND or higher in mechanical, electrical and electronic disciplines.
• Experience in electro-mechanical systems production engineering, preferably small batch/high tech.
• Knowledge of design validation methods (DFM/DFA/DFS) and problem solving.
• Recent, practical experience of mechanical and electrical assembly.

Responsibilities

• Investigate customer-reported design or issue problems thoroughly and identify root causes.
• Apply PT problem solving methods or 8D RCA when needed and report concisely.
• Collate evidence and maintain traceable reports and build documentation as needed.
• Interrogate BOMs, ECOs and DP deviation permits as required.
• Support product improvements and corrections with testing documentation and validation.
• Provide expert guidance to production engineering and test departments.
• Support corrective actions, FRNs and deviation permits; feedback to design teams on DFM/DFA/DFS.
• Ensure products are manufactured and tested to documented standards and keep SOPs up to date.

Skills

Problem-solving skills

Commercial awareness

Design validation methodologies

Mechanical and electrical assembly

Education

HND or higher in Mechanical, Electrical & Electronic disciplines

Job description

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.

Qualifications and experience

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

Benefits

• 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