R&D Engineer: Decontamination & New Product Development

Ecolab; Andover; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Life Assurance 4x salary

Company pension + flex benefits

Private healthcare

Bonus scheme

Share scheme (15% company contribution

Job summary

Bioquell, a brand of Ecolab, based at Andover, Hampshire, UK, is expanding its multidisciplinary R&D team. The role focuses on new product development, test planning, and production support within a dedicated prototype workshop and test facilities.

You will run mechanical and process tests, generate reports, and help drive DFMEA and root-cause investigations for customer issues, contributing to a broad range of pharmaceutical and healthcare applications.

Qualifications

• Apprenticeship or similar in an engineering discipline (ideally mechanical).
• Hands-on experience in product approval testing is essential.
• Experience designing and building test rigs is important.
• Appreciation of instrumenting equipment for testing.
• Ability to analyse test results is important.
• Design of experiments and writing test plans and reporting results essential.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills are a must.
• Knowledge of the C family of programming languages, Siemens S7-1200 PLC logic and Arduino advantageous but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Work on new product development and development of existing products.
• Generate product approval test plans.
• Perform product mechanical and process testing.
• Create test reports and provide management updates.
• Contribute to DFMEA feedback and investigations of customer issues.
• Provide production support with a mechanical workshop resource when needed.

Skills

Engineering apprenticeship

Test planning

Test rig design

Test result analysis

Communication skills

C/PLC basics

Test reporting

Instrumentation for testing

Education

Apprenticeship or similar in engineering

Tools

Siemens S7-1200

Arduino

Job description

Bioquell, a brand of Ecolab, based at Andover, Hampshire, UK, is expanding its multidisciplinary R&D team. The role focuses on new product development, test planning, and production support within a dedicated prototype workshop and test facilities.

You will run mechanical and process tests, generate reports, and help drive DFMEA and root-cause investigations for customer issues, contributing to a broad range of pharmaceutical and healthcare applications.