Innova Search is proudly representing an esteemed market leader within the electronics and mechanical sector. The business is widely known for its cutting-edge research and development across a wide-array of products. The business provides innovative products to a range of sectors (scientific, automotive, defence, industrial manufacturing), adhering to strict industry standards.The business provides a unique opportunity to work across a multitude of projects, at varying stages of the roadmap, with a strong focus on sustainability and innovation.The Role:
This role will deliver innovative software solutions to support both new and existing products, ensuring they remain market-leading and meet the expectations of the company’s global customers, brand values, and standards. You will collaborate with the Innovation Manager and software design engineer to execute the product development plan, ensuring adherence to Design Language Guidelines and compliance with relevant EU Directives. The Lead Software Design Engineer plays a critical role in delivering the company's NPD plan on schedule while also contributing to the growth and effectiveness of the Innovation Team.
Responsibilities:
Ensure new products consistently align with brand values by adhering to established design guidelines
Identify and advocate for the adoption of emerging technologies and processes to maintain market-leading products. Inspire and encourage innovative thinking and creative design solutions within the Innovation team
Establish rigorous testing protocols to ensure all new products are thoroughly tested, surpassing design limits to guarantee durability in real-world conditions
Provide training, tools, fixtures, test rigs, BOMs, processes, build manuals, quality plans, etc., to facilitate the smooth transition of new products into mainstream production
Offer support and guidance to the Software Design Engineer in fulfilling their responsibilities within the P2P documentation, ensuring timely delivery
Foster and encourage continuous improvement in working methods
Focus Areas:
Design with manufacturability in mind
Prioritise reliability in design
Consider operator or environmental misuse during the design process
Apply user-centered design principles (informed by user research and rapid prototyping) to create intuitive products that ideally eliminate the need for an operator's manual
Focus on ease of fault diagnosis and serviceability during design
Ensure technical project documentation is thorough, supporting product compliance with the product development life cycle across design, development, unit testing/TDD/Mocking, and agile methodologies, while adhering to the latest EU directives such as EMC, RoHS, WEEE
Personal Attributes:
Adaptable and motivated, able to embrace and react to evolving demands
Trustworthy, sincere, and authentic
Strong interpersonal abilities
Collaborative team contributor
Steady under pressure and composed
Committed and diligent
Upholds high standards of integrity and professionalism
Experience Required:
The ideal candidate possesses a strong background in software disciplines, preferably with experience in the manufacturing sector
A minimum of HND qualification in software, science, or mathematics is required
Proficiency in C#, JavaScript, Node.js, and Next.js is essential
Strong knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming principles
Familiarity with WPF, MVVM, AWS, JSON, HTML, and web technologies
Expertise in .NET, LINQ, SQL Server, SQLite, GitHub, Visual Studio
If you feel you have the relevant experience for this position, please click “apply” now.
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