Job Description
Job Specification
- Role: Lead Industrial Design Engineer
- Location: Glasgow, UK
- Salary: Competitive based on experience
- Contract: Permanent appointment
About Synaptec
We are a highly innovative company based in the centre of Glasgow, Scotland. Founded in 2015, our goal is to reduce outages and the operational cost of modern, clean power networks by providing advanced monitoring and control systems based on our patented core technologies. Grid operators and clean power generators use our systems across a range of diverse environments on- and off-shore to instantly know the health and performance of their assets over unprecedented distances. To achieve our goals, we recruit the most talented individuals and develop their abilities to the full.
We are a signatory of the Scottish Business Pledge (https://scottishbusinesspledge.scot/) and are committed to boosting productivity and competitiveness through fairness, equality, and sustainable employment. We aim to take full advantage of diversity of experience and thought and to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation or identification, marital status, or race. We are proud to be an accredited Living Wage Employer and member of the Living Wage Foundation.
We conduct ourselves according to four core values:
- Technical excellence: We are committed to recruiting the most outstanding engineers, physicists and seasoned industry specialists, and investing in their continuous development.
- Openness: We work hard to sustain a culture of openness that underpins honesty, respect, and directness with each other and all stakeholders.
- Responsiveness: We thrive on challenge and seek to deeply understand customers’ problems and drivers and respond with creative, robust solutions.
- Continuous improvement: We constantly evaluate how we can improve, and we firmly believe that only by continuously adapting and improving can we remain at the frontline of our discipline.
Overview of Role
The Lead Industrial Design Engineer will take a senior role within Synaptec’s product engineering division, and will lead significant parts of the development cycle of Synaptec’s novel sensing technologies. The Engineer will be capable of design, simulation, and prototyping of new measurement hardware, the development of calibration and product testing regimes, and the qualification and launch of new commercial products.
The role is focussed on development, ruggedisation and standards compliance of novel instrumentation and measurement techniques for the power and energy industries, utilising both electronic and photonic technologies. The Engineer will be responsible for industrialised electrical and mechanical design of sensor and interrogation system products. Prior experience and confidence in an electrical and mechanical prototyping and design house or laboratory environment will be important.
The post will report on a day-to-day basis to the company’s Head of Sensor Technologies, and will be expected to provide mentorship and leadership to junior team members, updates to the wider team on progress, and detailed reporting on work or investigations undertaken.
This is a full-time post based at the Company’s facilities in central Glasgow. Site visits or short-term working at client or supplier sites are likely to be required.
Essential criteria
The candidate will be able to demonstrate or rapidly develop:
- An excellent postgraduate qualification in electrical, electronic, or mechatronic engineering or equivalent field
- A strong desire to take a lead role in a growing team and engage in driving the commercial success of new technology
- PhD and/or industrial experience with design of electronic systems
- Experience with electronic prototyping, covering both analogue and digital electronics
- Experience with mechanical prototyping, including CAD design and specification of componentry
- Experience in all aspects of hardware product development: specification, prototyping, testing, and qualification
- Familiarity with electronic/power/photonic product packaging and prototyping
- C, Matlab fluency for sensor simulation, testing and data analysis
- Self-motivation and an ability to work autonomously, including the ability to manage own time and workload effectively
- Confidence with team-working in a high-technology environment and mentoring of junior members of the technical team
- Excellent verbal communication skills and attitude, with an ability to discuss technical information in clear and simple terms with colleagues and customers
- Ability to prepare concise, accurate, high-quality documents and presentations, with excellent attention to detail
Differentiating criteria
- Qualification in mechanical engineering
- Familiarity with high voltage or power engineering
- Familiarity with fibre optic components
- Excellent experimental design, execution and evaluation skills
- Capability in FEM analysis; electrical, electromagnetic, stress-strain and thermal modelling and analysis
Benefits
- Ethical private healthcare
- Invention bonus scheme
- Flexible and hybrid working
- Cycle-to-work scheme and secure bicycle parking
- Discounted gym membership
About our location
- Glasgow city centre location with excellent public transport links.
- Glasgow has a famously vibrant arts and culture scene and holds UNESCO Creative City of Music status.
- We are an hour's train ride from the east and west coasts of Scotland, home to some of the most beautiful islands in the world.
- To the north, we're an hour from Loch Lomond and access to the Scottish mountains.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £35,000.00-£45,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
Schedule:
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Glasgow, Glasgow: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Experience:
- hardware product development: 1 year (preferred)
- electronic prototyping: 1 year (required)
- mechanical prototyping: 1 year (required)
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: In person
Reference ID: Lead Industrial Design Engineer/May 2023