Workshop Technician

Consilium Recruit; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a diligent technician/engineer to support R&D activities in their Loughborough headquarters. This role involves test and trial support across various engineering contexts, including electronics and materials testing. You will contribute to product development and new introductions by preparing test samples and ensuring the workshop environment is safe and efficient. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in a multi-disciplinary engineering setting, showcasing strong data handling skills and the ability to adapt to dynamic challenges. If you thrive in innovative environments and enjoy collaborative problem-solving, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in R&D workshop laboratory environment.
• Proven track record of mental agility and adaptability.

Responsibilities

• Support R&D infrastructure for product development and testing.
• Ensure laboratory/workshop operates safely and cleanly.

Skills

Test setup experience

Data analysis

Instrumentation setup and calibration

Machining

Microscopy polishing

Complex system handling

Adaptability

Mental agility

Education

Technical qualification in engineering

Tools

Excel

Job description

Working in the Loughborough H.Q., you will be responsible for test/trial support in all areas of R&D, ranging from small signal electronics, to exploring fundamental properties of the materials and technologies in use, to power systems behaviour, to experiments involving gas laws and properties, etc.

Supporting the R&D infrastructure for product development and new product introductions, you will be required to have knowledge of operating workshop machine tools to prepare test samples including but not limited to machining and microscopy polishing of thermoplastic composite samples. You will be required to support the ongoing engineering review and investigation of materials including testing and analysis for the composite material aspects of the Aqualiner product, electronic control systems, etc.

You must ensure that the laboratory/workshop is operating in a clean and safe manner and the engineering team have the appropriate support to deliver their required tasks.

The Person

You will ideally be a time served diligent technician/engineer and have had significant experience in an R&D workshop laboratory environment supporting either test or research and development activities within a wide engineering context and have a proven track record of mental agility and adaptability. You will be conversant with working in a new production introduction setting focusing on innovative and practical solutions to the engineering challenges that R&D present.

You will have testing and test set up experience in a R&D (not QA) environment context including instrumentation setup and calibration, sample preparation, result data capture and logging. Experience in high magnification macro photography would be an advantage and the successful applicant must have the ability to collect, store and manage a significant volume of test data to allow other team members easy retrieval of the data as required.

You will be well versed working on complex systems and possess previous experience of working in a multi-disciplinary engineering environment and able to develop and build solutions in a collaborative and highly hands on manner. Strong capability in handling and analysing sets of data using tools such as Excel are critical for the position.