Job Description
Sustainment Engineering Lead (Electronics)
Wotton under Edge
up to £70,000 depending on experience
Renishaw’s Machine Tool Products leads the market in delivering innovative, high accuracy measurement solutions to CNC machining processes around the world.
Our patented touch trigger probe technology was first employed to measure intricate components for Concorde engines; today (and many iterations later) our products are the benchmark in high precision engineering for manufacturing hundreds of everyday items like mobile phones and laptops through to car and aircraft parts. There’s a good chance our probes were involved in the production of the device you are reading this on.
A position has arisen for a Sustainment Engineering Lead with an electronics background, to take responsibility for a range of Current Products. The role owns product reliability, test strategy, cost of quality, and obsolescence management while working closely with manufacturing, procurement, product management & Renishaw subsidiaries.
Core Responsibilities
1. Product Ownership — Act as the primary electronics owner for the Machine Tool Current Products line, accountable for product performance, reliability, and ongoing engineering changes.
2. Customer Return Investigations — Oversee technical investigations into customer returns and field failures; define root cause, corrective actions, and preventive measures; ensure timely communication with service and customers.
3. Continuous Improvement Upgrades — Identify, scope, and deliver electronics upgrades that improve product performance and manufacturability.
4. Production Test Specifications — review and agree production test strategies, test specifications, and required test coverage for PCBs and product assemblies
5. Cost of Quality Improvements — Drive initiatives to reduce warranty costs, scrap, rework, and field service interventions through design changes and product test improvements
6. Component Obsolescence and Shortage Management — Monitor component lifecycle and supply risk; develop and execute design implementation strategies for obsolescence mitigation, last-time buys, and approved alternates.
7. New to Current Product Handover — Review and agree handover of new products into the current products portfolio; ensure documentation, test coverage, and serviceability meet operational requirements.
8. Team Leadership and Development — Lead, mentor, and grow a small team of electronics engineers & technicians and allocate resources appropriately
9. Cross Functional Collaboration — Act as the electronics interface to product and technology owners, procurement, quality, manufacturing, and product management.
10. Documentation and Compliance — Ensure design documentation, and Engineering change are maintained and meet the relevant regulatory standards.
Requirements
11. Electronics degree (BEng/BSc/Meng) or HND/HNC with demonstrated practical experience.
12. Relevant experience in electronics design and technical leadership
13. Familiarity with ERP systems
14. Familiarity with Change Management processes
15. Experience managing component obsolescence, shortages and second source verification.
16. Strong problem-solving skills,
17. Clear technical communication skills
18. The ability to work independently and prioritise under competing demands
Benefits
When you join Renishaw, we're committing to your future career. That's because we believe in developing our people's skills and promoting them internally. We also offer a benefits package that's highly desirable; including a 9% non-contributory pension, discretionary annual bonus, *subsidised onsite restaurants and *coffee shops, free parking, *car sharing scheme and *24 hour fitness centres. ( not available at all sites).
We also want to promote a healthy work-life balance as much as possible, so we have introduced a hybrid working policy which allows for a combination of home and office based working depending on the nature of your role. We also offer a variable working programme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, Life Assurance policy of 12 times annual salary, Cycle to Work scheme, enhanced maternity pay subject to qualifying criteria, Health Cash Plan, the option to join BUPA Renishaw Health Trust and an Employee Assistance Programme for employees and family.
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Employment Type:
Permanent
Time Type:
Full time
Requisition Number:
R9077 Sustainment Engineering Lead (Electronics) (Open)