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Role:  Raman Development Engineer

Location: Livingston, UK

Type: Permanent

 Edinburgh Instruments (EI) is an international market leader in high-end, high-value scientific instrumentation. Part of the Hong Kong headquartered global Techcomp Instrument Group, we operate within the Techcomp Europe (TEU) division, which consists of a group of scientific instrument manufacturing businesses with production sites across six countries in Europe and with a comprehensive commercial network with sales offices and distribution partners across the globe.

We are immensely proud of our heritage; for 50 years we have been supplying customers at leading-edge research institutes, academic and industrial facilities around the world. Our products combine customisation, user-friendliness, and high performance, and are experiencing higher-than-ever demand worldwide.

Edinburgh Instruments are looking to recruit a Raman Development Engineer to join our Livingston Headquarters.

What You’ll Be Doing?

 The Raman Development Engineer supports the Project Manager and conducts development tasks for new Raman products, bespoke customer requests and sustainability and product improvements. Responsibilities also include supporting the Project Manager in the generation and maintenance of technical documentation. The Raman Development Engineer works in a team with mechanical, optical, electrical and software engineers and will communicate to other teams such as marketing, applications, sales, operations, and production, as required. The ability to present ideas and information accurately in a clear and concise manner is important.

Key Responsibilities will include:

• Aid new product developments in Raman spectroscopy.
• Support bespoke development projects in accordance with directions set by the Project Manager.
• Support sustainability and product improvement developments in accordance with directions set by the Project Manager.
• Conduct development tasks, alignment, optimisation, and validation of instruments. This will include using standard instrumentation, adapting systems to enable customer applications, and providing input and direction for proposed product improvements, including new software features.
• Work closely with the Project Manager to share knowledge and ensure projects remain on track.
• Support other teams, such as Production, Operations, Applications, Sales and Marketing, if required.
• Create and maintain technical documentation such as manuals and specification data sheets
• Assist with technical papers, data sheets, application notes, devising experimental lab work to produce technical documentation.
• Assist with the approval and communication of new products and product changes, to take account of the impacts on stakeholders (internal and external).
• Any other duties as may be reasonably required from time to time by your line manager.

What You’ll Need to Bring

• Master’s degree or higher in relevant scientific discipline and experience of spectroscopy instrumentation.

We’d Also Love to See

• Knowledge and experience of Product Design methodologies.
• Experience of advanced spectroscopy techniques.
• Experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams including, but not limited to, mechanical, electrical, software and optical engineers.

Why Us?

This a great opportunity to join an established and growing global business. In return we offer excellent financial rewards and career development prospects. You will work 37.5 flexible working pattern, that allows an early finish on a Friday. After an initial qualifying period and subject to the Company’s terms and conditions of employment, Edinburgh Instruments offers a comprehensive range of benefits including performance-related bonus scheme, death in service, permanent health insurance, private medical insurance, pension scheme, paid holidays, subsidised gym membership, cycle to work and employee discount scheme.

As an equal opportunities employer, Edinburgh Instruments is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply.

Role: Fluorescence Development Engineer

Location: Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland. Hybrid working.
Salary: £DOE, includes benefits, bonus and pension
Contract: Full time, Permanent

Edinburgh Instruments (EI) is an international market leader in high-end, high-value scientific instrumentation. Part of the Hong Kong headquartered global Techcomp Instrument Group, we operate within the Techcomp Europe (TEU) division, which consists of a group of scientific instrument manufacturing businesses with production sites across six countries in Europe and with a comprehensive commercial network with sales offices and distribution partners across the globe.

We are immensely proud of our heritage; for over 50 years we have been supplying customers at leading-edge research institutes, academic and industrial facilities around the world. Our products combine customisation, user-friendliness, and high performance, and are experiencing higher-than-ever demand worldwide.

Edinburgh Instruments are looking to recruit a Fluorescence Development Engineer to join our Livingston Headquarters.

What You’ll Be Doing?

The Fluorescence Development Engineer supports the Project Manager and conducts development tasks for new Fluorescence products, bespoke customer requests and sustainability and product improvements. Responsibilities also include supporting the Project Manager in the generation and maintenance of technical documentation. The Fluorescence Development Engineer works in a team with mechanical, optical, electrical and software engineers and will communicate to other teams such as marketing, applications, sales, operations, and production, as required. The ability to present ideas and information accurately in a clear and concise manner is important.

Key Responsibilities will include:

• Aid new product developments in Fluorescence spectroscopy.
• Support bespoke development projects in accordance with directions set by the Project Manager.
• Support sustainability and product improvement developments in accordance with directions set by the Project Manager.
• Conduct development tasks, alignment, optimisation, and validation of instruments. This will include using standard instrumentation, adapting systems to enable customer applications, and providing input and direction for proposed product improvements, including new software features.
• Work closely with the Project Manager to share knowledge and ensure projects remain on track.
• Support other teams, such as Production, Operations, Applications, Sales and Marketing, if required.
• Create and maintain technical documentation such as manuals and specification data sheets
• Assist with technical papers, data sheets, application notes, devising experimental lab work to produce technical documentation.
• Assist with the approval and communication of new products and product changes, to take account of the impacts on stakeholders (internal and external).
• Any other duties as may be reasonably required from time to time by your line manager.

What You’ll Need to Bring

• Master’s degree or higher in relevant scientific discipline and experience of spectroscopy instrumentation.

We’d Also Love to See

• Knowledge and experience of Product Design methodologies.
• Experience of advanced spectroscopy techniques.
• Experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams including, but not limited to, mechanical, electrical, software and optical engineers.

Why Us?

This a great opportunity to join an established and growing global business. In return we offer excellent financial rewards and career development prospects. You will work 37.5 flexible working pattern, that allows an early finish on a Friday. After an initial qualifying period and subject to the Company’s terms and conditions of employment, Edinburgh Instruments offers a comprehensive range of benefits including performance-related bonus scheme, death in service, permanent health insurance, private medical insurance, pension scheme, paid holidays, subsidised gym membership, cycle to work and employee discount scheme.

As an equal opportunities employer, Edinburgh Instruments is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply.

Role: Senior Electrical Technician – Froilabo

Location: Livingston, UK

Type: Permanent

Part of the Techcomp Europe family, Froilabo develops and manufactures temperature-controlled equipment for sample preparation and preservation in laboratory and industrial applications, including ultra-low-temperature freezers, ovens, and incubators.

With sites in France and Romania and a shared R&D hub at Edinburgh Instruments in Scotland, Froilabo are looking to create a strong engineering team to build the next generation of environmentally-friendly freezers.

To this end, Froilabo are looking to recruit a Senior Electrical Technician to join our Livingston R&D centre.

What You’ll Be Doing

The Senior Electrical Technician will support the manufacturing team in the operation and R&D team in design and obtain performance data and working to resolve problems such as equipment issues and malfunctions with bias towards electrical installations, circuits, and power distribution systems.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Carry out build, modification and testing of electrical circuits and power distribution units.
• Support wider team with electrical installations, including peer review designs and buddy checking completed works.
• Carry out pre-operation checks on the test pieces and PPAP sample.
• Work with team on continuous improvement activities.
• Generate and follow work instructions.
• Follow company safety standards and report safety issues.

What You’ll Need to Bring

• HNC level in Electrical/Electronic/Mechanical Engineering or similar.
• Experience of lab or industrial environments including safety procedures.
• Experience of electrical installations and build of power distribution units.
• Experience of completing mechanical and/or electrical works on equipment or systems in line with engineering documentation.
• Mechanical and electrical fitting skills.
• Competent user of MS Office packages.
• Ability to read diagrams and schematics (ideally electrical and P&ID).

We’d Also Love to See

• Experience of operating automated software and PLC system.
• Practical working knowledge of sensors, actuators, instrumentation, wiring and control systems.
• Experience of working in a product development or research environment.
• Industrial wiring, e.g., contactors, breakers, 3-hase etc.
• Analogue’s electronics, e.g., resistors, inductors, capacitors, band pass filters etc.
• Design of electrical circuits (and P&ID) and power distribution systems.

Why Us?

This a great opportunity to join an established and growing global business. In return we offer excellent financial rewards and career development prospects. You will work 37.5 flexible working pattern, that allows an early finish on a Friday. After an initial qualifying period and subject to the Company’s terms and conditions of employment, Edinburgh Instruments offers a comprehensive range of benefits including performance-related bonus scheme, death in service, permanent health insurance, private medical insurance, pension scheme, paid holidays and subsidised gym membership.

As an equal opportunities employer, Edinburgh Instruments is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply.

Location: Homebased. North M25 corridor; M1 corridor to Leicestershire

Contract: Full time, Permanent

Precisa is part of the Techcomp Europe Group and operates from our newly refurbished facility near Edinburgh, Scotland.

Formed in 1982, Precisa is the exclusive distributor for the United Kingdom and Ireland for all Precisa Gravimetric products.

At the core of our UK business operation, is the co-operation with our sister Company Precisa Gravimetrics AG, located in Zurich, Switzerland.  Precisa AG have been manufacturing balances since 1935 with renowned Swiss quality and precision and are globally acknowledged as one of the leading balance manufacturing Companies.

Through the support of our Swiss Company, we sell, support and service all Precisa balances from our UK HQ.  To reduce product leadtime and delivery costs, we stock a wide range of balances in Scotland to enable quick and prompt delivery to customer sites around the UK & Ireland.  In addition to the support of Precisa balance sales, our engineers are also able to access to our Swiss R&D and Customer Service Centre for technical support and updates.

We are looking to recruit a Field Service Engineer that will be homebased but within commutable distance of the North M25 corridor & M1 corridor to Leicestershire.

What You’ll Be doing

 Reporting to the Chief Commercial Officer, the Field Service Engineer will provide UKAS and ISO calibration services for non-automated weighing equipment up to 400kg in the UK.

Key Responsibilities will include:

• Travel to customer sites to service, calibrate and the repair of balances of all makes and models to a wide range of industries.
• Plan and organise field work based on monthly schedule.
• Complete accurate service reports, UKAS certificates, and other necessary documents
• Technical knowledge and expertise related to mechanical and electronic equipment preferably in a laboratory environment.
• Report regularly to Service team with regards to work scheduling, progress of work and necessary actions/follow-ups required.
• Promote Service capability and support service business growth and expansion.
• Ad hoc duties as assigned.

What You’ll Need to Bring

• Technical requirements (BTEC, HNC) in Electronic, mechanical or scientific field or equivalent.
• Prior experience of working in laboratory environment.
• Experience and knowledge about GLP & GMP practices and environments.
• Knowledge or previous work experience of calibration of weighing equipment would be beneficial.

Why Us?

This a great opportunity to join an established and growing global business. In return we offer excellent financial rewards and career development prospects. After an initial qualifying period and subject to the Company’s terms and conditions of employment, Edinburgh Instruments offers a comprehensive range of benefits including performance-related bonus scheme, pension scheme, paid holidays, employee discount scheme, cycle to work, subsidised gym membership and group life, permanent health & private medical insurance.

As an equal opportunities employer, Edinburgh Instruments is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply.

Role: Electronics Design Engineer

Location: Livingston, UK

Type: Permanent

Edinburgh Instruments (EI) is an international market leader in high-end, high-value scientific instrumentation. Part of the Hong Kong headquartered global Techcomp Instrument Group, we operate within the Techcomp Europe (TEU) division, which consists of a group of scientific instrument manufacturing businesses with production sites across six countries in Europe and with a comprehensive commercial network with sales offices and distribution partners across the globe.We are immensely proud of our heritage; for 50 years we have been supplying customers at leading-edge research institutes, academic and industrial facilities around the world. Our products combine customisation, user-friendliness, and high performance, and are experiencing higher-than-ever demand worldwide.

Edinburgh Instruments are looking to recruit an Electronics Design Engineer to join our Livingston Headquarters.

What You’ll Be Doing?

The Electronics Design Engineer supports the Project Manager / Program Manager and conducts electronic engineering tasks for new product development, bespoke customer developments and sustainability and product improvement developments.

Key Responsibilities will include:

• Undertake the design and development of specified projects / products or sub-systems.
• Produce, maintain, record and ensure safe keeping of computerised design documentation.
• Ensuring the performance and safety of products meet the specified requirements and standards.
• Ensure that projects / developments undertaken comply with international standards, to undertake tests as required and complete the necessary records to meet European requirements for self-certification of Company products (CE mark).
• Provide technical support to other divisions, production or sales teams as required.
• Advise in the specification of electronic aspects of custom designed systems.
• Remain abreast of state-of-the-art electronics technology and products.
• Provide technical support to Production when required (Test/Inspection.)
• Undertake off-site visits for design, consultancy, installation, warranty or maintenance of electronic products, as required.
• Undertake any other duties as required.

What You’ll Need to Bring

• Electrical Engineering degree with experience in a design and manufacturing environment.
• Knowledge of manufacturing techniques, with design for manufacture, and design for assembly skills.
• Experience of designing component parts and assemblies.
• Engineering configuration management.
• Good team player
• Written and verbal communication skills

Why Us?

This a great opportunity to join an established and growing global business. In return we offer excellent financial rewards and career development prospects. You will work 37.5 flexible working pattern, that allows an early finish on a Friday. After an initial qualifying period and subject to the Company’s terms and conditions of employment, Edinburgh Instruments offers a comprehensive range of benefits including performance-related bonus scheme, death in service, permanent health insurance, private medical insurance, pension scheme, paid holidays and subsidised gym membership.

As an equal opportunities employer, Edinburgh Instruments is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply.

Role: Software Development Engineer

Location: Livingston, UK

Type: Permanent

Reports To: Software Team Leader

Do you have a degree in software engineering or a related engineering/science discipline? Are you experienced in Microsoft Windows programming with demonstrable UI design skills? Are you passionate about scientific instruments? Do you have experience or are you interested to gain experience in the field of optical spectroscopy instrumentation? Are you looking for a new challenge and opportunity for growth?

If you have answered “yes” to any of these questions, then this could be the role for you!

What You’ll Be Doing?

Reporting into the Software Team Leader, the Software Development Engineer’s will be responsible for the design, development, testing, documentation, and maintenance of system software for our newly developed products.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Contribute to the software development of our new products, including graphical user interface, hardware control, data analysis, data base management and software testing.
• Ensuring that all activities comply with Company quality procedures.
• To propose, implement and demonstrate solutions to problems which may not, given the research & development environment, have clearly defined requirements.
• Keep up to date with current technology and advise the Company on issues that may affect performance and success.

What You’ll Need to Bring

• Have a degree in software engineering or a related engineering/science discipline with relevant software development experience.
• Microsoft windows programming experience – specifically in C# (WPF), database management (SQL and SQLite) and entity framework (EF)
• A thorough understanding of object-oriented design methods and patterns
• Demonstrable UI design skills
• Experience of using Source Code Management and Bug tracking tools in a team environment

Other desirable skills include:

• Knowledge of other programming languages such as C++ and Java
• Familiar to agile software development principles and patterns
• Instrumentation – scientific/medical, imaging, hardware interfacing, data acquisition, USB devices, sensors and optical detectors, motor control, etc.
• Graphics – Data visualisation, charting, 3D

Why Us?

Edinburgh Instruments (EI) is an international market leader in high-end, high-value scientific instrumentation. Part of the Hong Kong headquartered global Techcomp Instrument Group, we operate within the Techcomp Europe (TEU) division, which consists of a group of scientific instrument manufacturing businesses with production sites across six countries in Europe and with a comprehensive commercial network with sales offices and distribution partners across the globe.

We are immensely proud of our heritage; for 50 years we have been supplying customers at leading-edge research institutes, academic and industrial facilities around the world. Our products combine customisation, user-friendliness, and high performance, and are experiencing higher-than-ever demand worldwide.

This a great opportunity to join an established and growing global business. In return we offer excellent financial rewards and career development prospects. You will work 37.5 flexible working pattern, that allows an early finish on a Friday. After an initial qualifying period and subject to the Company’s terms and conditions of employment, Edinburgh Instruments offers a comprehensive range of benefits including performance-related bonus scheme, death in service, permanent health insurance, private medical insurance, pension scheme, paid holidays and subsidised gym membership.

As an equal opportunities employer, Edinburgh Instruments is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply.

Role: Electrical Engineer at Froilabo

Location: Livingston, UK

Type: Permanent

Part of the Techcomp Europe family, Froilabo develops and manufactures temperature-controlled equipment for sample preparation and preservation in laboratory and industrial applications, including ultra-low-temperature freezers, ovens, and incubators.

With sites in France and Romania and a shared R&D hub at Edinburgh Instruments in Scotland, Froilabo are looking to create a strong engineering team to build the next generation of environmentally-friendly freezers.

To this end, Froilabo are looking to recruit an Electrical Engineer to join our Livingston R&D centre.

What You’ll Be Doing?

The Electrical Engineer designs, tests, and develops electrical systems for refrigeration products, encompassing component selection, distribution of AC/DC power, signal and control wiring, creation of system cable harnesses and wiring diagrams, ensuring product electrical safety and electromagnetic compatibility, and supporting overall product reliability.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Primary engineer for electrical system design: Select components, design system electrical layout and wiring, share in developing unit control systems, ensure the safety and reliability of the electrical subsystem supports the overall system’s safety and reliability.
• Ensure electrical design fulfills relevant regulatory requirements and standards and exceeds them where appropriate.
• Document system wiring and cable harnesses for transfer to production. Ensure product manufacturing and service needs are considered and incorporated during design. Develop test methods for production where appropriate in conjunction with the Production Engineers.

What You’ll Need to Bring

• Relevant experience in electrical engineering design and development, with demonstrated competence in system wiring design and accompanying documentation. Any suitable combination of practical experience and education will be considered, with an emphasis on experience.
• Knowledge of control systems, including relay logic and fail-safe design principles. Demonstrated competence in designing systems to be safe, robust, and reliable, as well as putting in place appropriate testing to prove the same.
• Knowledge of relevant regulations and standards, including electrical safety and EMC, and their implications for design and test; able to identify and apply relevant requirements for markets outside the UK and European Union.

We’d Also Love to See

• Industrial equipment design experience preferred; otherwise, experience with design of systems containing mains-powered rotating equipment, heating elements, etc., preference for products in series production rather than bespoke installations.
• PLC programming experience a plus. Opportunity for growth in this area based on Engineer’s career development interests.
• ATEX or Medical Device design experience a plus.

Why Us?

This a great opportunity to join an established and growing global business. In return we offer excellent financial rewards and career development prospects. You will work 37.5 flexible working pattern, that allows an early finish on a Friday. After an initial qualifying period and subject to the Company’s terms and conditions of employment, Edinburgh Instruments offers a comprehensive range of benefits including performance-related bonus scheme, death in service, permanent health insurance, private medical insurance, pension scheme, paid holidays and subsidised gym membership.

As an equal opportunities employer, Edinburgh Instruments is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply.