Careers

Role: Sales Engineer USA

Location: USA (Remote)

Type: Permanent

Reports To: Sales & Marketing Manager – Americas

Do you have a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a physical science discipline with an understanding of optical spectroscopy techniques? Are you currently working in sales, or perhaps looking to move into sales? Are you passionate, driven and looking for an environment that will celebrate your achievements, reward your success, and challenge you to accelerate your sales career to new highs?

If you have answered ‘yes’ to all these questions, then this could be the role for you!

What You’ll Be Doing

As part of the Sales Team, you will play an important role in educating scientists and driving interest for our products. You will work with an experienced sales manager to ensure consistent, profitable growth in sales revenues for defined regions through proactive outbound prospecting and effective management of our existing customer base.

This is a new role which was created to support our expanding spectroscopy business. In this role, you will be responsible for a wide variety of sales-related functions including selling our entire product line with a consultative sales approach.

Key responsibilities will include:​

• Strengthen existing customer relationships and develop new relationships within the Americas spectroscopy research community.
• Sell company products within the assigned territory.
• Discuss with potential customers what spectroscopy solution best fits their research requirements.
• Qualify leads, develop customer interest in our instrumentation and actively follow them through to closure to meet targets.
• Liaise with other teams internally, such as working with research & development for a bespoke order or creating technical content with the marketing team.
• Prepare quotations using CRM and quotation software and update the sales database weekly.
• Forecast sales monthly and timely submission of all required reports.
• Analysis of the optical spectroscopy market in the Americas to identify growth areas, new applications and funding trends.
• Regular meetings with the Americas sales manager to discuss customers and update the customer database (CRM).
• Flexibility to travel nationally and internationally to visit customer sites and attend conferences to promote molecular spectroscopy products and visit headquarters in the UK. Travel is expected to be up to 50% of the time predominantly in the USA.
• Be the expert in this field, partaking in proactive customer interactions to promote the Edinburgh Instrument’s product and spectroscopy solution.

What You’ll Need to Bring

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a physical science discipline. Chemistry, Material Science, Physics would be a distinct advantage.
• Understanding of optical spectroscopy techniques such as photoluminescence or Raman spectroscopy/microscopy is required.
• Enthusiasm, confidence and professionalism with excellent communication and interpersonal skills is an important part of this role.
• Responsiveness and focus, combined with attention to detail are essential.
• Self-motivated, able to work under pressure, with the ability to multitask and meet tight deadlines with proven analytical and numerical skills.
• Ability to work independently with minimum supervision as well as part of a larger team.
• Excellent writing and presentation skills.

What We Offer

This a great opportunity to join an established and growing global business.  As this role is remote you can be based anywhere within the USA but must have a willingness to travel.

You will receive a competitive salary and commission package and subject to an initial qualifying period and certain terms and conditions, a comprehensive range of benefits including 401K plan with match; medical, dental and vision plan; life and disability; vacation and holiday pay.

This role is Salary, FLSA exempt.

Why Us? 

For 50 years, Edinburgh Instruments have been providing customers at leading-edge research institutes, academic and industrial facilities with high-end, high-value scientific instrumentation. Products combine customisation, user-friendliness and high performance and are experiencing higher-than-ever demand worldwide. Edinburgh Instruments pride themselves in providing customers with industry-leading support and the successful candidate will be entrusted to act as an ambassador for our company.

Edinburgh Instruments is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. We can only process applications from candidates who possess a valid USA work permit and/or residency.

To apply email your CV to ussales@edinst.com

Role:  Optical Design Engineer

Location: Livingston

Type: Permanent

Reports To: Program Manager

Do you have a degree in physics, optics or optical engineering? Do you have hands-on experience in optical spectroscopy? Have you been working as an Optical Design Engineer within the medical devices, optical instrumentation, defence electronics or optoelectronics packing and assembly industry?

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

What You’ll Be Doing

Reporting into the Program Manager of the Edinburgh Instruments’ Development Department, the Optical Design Engineer’s primary task is the design and optimisation of a variety of optical components for instrumentation in the field of optical spectroscopy

Key responsibilities will include:

• Optical design and optimisation of instrumentation for optical spectroscopy – using ray tracing software and other modern tools.
• Working together with mechanical and electronic design teams to design prototypes.
• Evaluation of prototypes
• Support to our Operations and Application teams.

What You’ll Need to Bring

• Educated to degree level, preferably an MSc or PhD, in physics, optics, optical engineering or another related discipline.
• Experience of all areas of optical design, knowledge of ray-tracing software, preferably Zemax
• An understanding of optical spectroscopy techniques such as photoluminescence, Raman spectroscopy, FTIR, and Microscopy is required.
• Enthusiasm, confidence, and the ability to communicate with colleagues across mechanical, firmware and software engineering.
• Responsiveness and focus, combined with attention to detail are essential.
• Self-motivated, able to work under pressure, with proven analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently with minimum supervision as well as part of a larger team.

What We Offer

This a great opportunity to join an established and growing global business. In return we offer excellent financial rewards and career development prospects. The Company has a 37.5 hour flexible working week and a comprehensive benefits package.

Why Us? 

For 50 years, Edinburgh Instruments have been providing customers at leading-edge research institutes, academic and industrial facilities with high-end, high-value scientific instrumentation. Products combine customisation, user-friendliness and high performance and are experiencing higher-than-ever demand worldwide. Edinburgh Instruments pride themselves in providing customers with industry-leading support and the successful candidate will be entrusted to act as an ambassador for our company.

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
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

What We Offer

This a great opportunity to join an established and growing global business. In return we offer excellent financial rewards and career development prospects. The Company has a 37.5 hour flexible working week and a comprehensive benefits package.

Why Us? 

For 50 years, Edinburgh Instruments have been providing customers at leading-edge research institutes, academic and industrial facilities with high-end, high-value scientific instrumentation. Products combine customisation, user-friendliness and high performance and are experiencing higher-than-ever demand worldwide. Edinburgh Instruments pride themselves in providing customers with industry-leading support and the successful candidate will be entrusted to act as an ambassador for our company.

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:  Product Engineer
Location: Livingston
Type: Permanent
Reports To:  Operations Group Manager

Have you recently graduated with a degree in Physics or Electrical Engineering and have a good understanding of optics? Do you have previous research experience using optical spectroscopy techniques? Or perhaps experience at a component level, for example building an optical system in a lab? Are you confident, enthusiastic and enjoy customer interaction and international travel?

If you have answered ‘yes’ to these questions, then this could be the role for you.

What You’ll Be Doing

Reporting into the Operations Group Manager, this role covers the most important facets of our customer-facing agenda.  Coupled with rigorous in-house final-testing of our custom spectrometer products to ensure they meet the demanding specifications.

As a member of the Service & Operations Team, the successful candidate will be enthused to act as an ambassador for our company, and conduct installation, training and service support visits to our customer-base. They will also provide technical support, customer feedback and give views on development strategy relating to our growing product range.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Conduct final test, product installation, training and servicing work for fluorescence spectrometer products at our customer location.
• Undertake the repair and servicing of our fluorescence spectrometer products.
• Responsible for final-stage testing of spectrometer products within production area.
• Involved in the continuing development/improvement of luminescence spectrometers and custom designed analytical instrumentation.

What You’ll Need to Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Physics or Electrical Engineering with a good knowledge of optics. A higher degree such as an MSc/PhD in Chemistry, Material Science, Physics would be a distinct advantage.
• Previous research experience using optical spectroscopy techniques such as photoluminescence or Raman spectroscopy/microscopy is a benefit.
• Experience of these spectroscopy techniques at a component level, such as building an optical system in a lab, would be a particular advantage.
• A willingness to travel. This role requires a level of extended international travel which may be up to 14 nights at any one time. The travel expectations are around 7 nights per month (after the initial training period of 6 months).
• Takes ownership of customer problems and issues and work to resolve them.
• Capability to provide simple solutions to technical problems and based on customer requirements.
• Enthusiasm, confidence and professionalism with excellent communication and interpersonal skills is an important part of this role.
• Responsiveness and focus, combined with attention to detail are essential.
• Self-motivated, able to work under pressure, with the ability to multitask and meet tight deadlines with proven analytical and numerical skills.
• Ability to work independently with minimum supervision as well as part of a larger team.
• Excellent technical writing and presentation skills.

What We Offer

This a great opportunity to join an established and growing global business. In return we offer excellent financial rewards and career development prospects. The Company has a 37.5 hour flexible working week and a comprehensive benefits package.

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. The successful candidate will be entrusted to act as an ambassador for our company.

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: Sales & Office Administrator
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 for a Sales & Office Administrator to join our Livingston Headquarters.

What You’ll Be Doing?

Reporting into the Chief Commercial Director – Lab Products you will work closely with other departments across the business, offering a wide range of sales and general office administration support. Key responsibilities will include:

Sales Support:

• Supporting the international sales team by liaising with other onsite departments (finance, quality, service, production, logistics & planning).
• Administration and management of company CRM including data cleansing and following up with sales team to keep pipelines up to date.
• Liaising with customers on delivery date changes and shipment tracking numbers.
• Control of the customer journey – regular customer communication and updates acting as a liaison to end users and distributors from various parts of the business.
• Monitoring new sales enquiries; acting as an initial contact and liaising with appropriate sales person.
• Contract review handover administration. At our contract review meeting responsibility for the order shifts from sales to production, you should administer the process and ensure sufficient information is provided from the sales department.
• Managing the order process – entering relevant order information onto the company’s ERP system to generate order numbers and running a configurator program where necessary
• Organising and minuting regular sales meetings.
• Provide administrative support for vendor paperwork, grant awards and tenders.

General Administration:

• Organising internal company events (e.g., special occasions, dinners, management/team events, itinerary arrangements for overseas visitors including accommodation, catering etc.).
• Administration of company travel (liaising with our corporate travel partner).
• Facilities management of the local company townhouses (2) (used by remote and international staff) – organising cleaning contractors, maintenance & repairs, room booking, utilities etc.

What You’ll Need to Bring

• Ideally experienced in a similar ‘outwardly facing’ role liaising with external and internal stakeholders
• Customer focused and positive, can-do attitude
• Experience with digital sales tools including CRM (such as Salesforce or Act)
• Experience using ERP systems to enter order data
• Well versed in standard office packages such as MS Word and Excel. M365 knowledge an advantage
• Excellent verbal and interpersonal skills, a good communicator
• Independent & self-motivated. Able to work effectively using initiative to prioritise and multi-task as required
• High attention to detail

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 hours between Monday and 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.

If you are interested in applying for this role, please send your cover letter and CV to oak176@oakleighresourcing.co.uk

Role: Technology Delivery Manager
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 Technology Delivery Manager for their Livingston Headquarters.

What You’ll Be Doing?

The successful candidate will be responsible for the administration of our technology and management information systems together with ownership of the technology strategy of our business. The role also involves oversight of the IT infrastructure and strategy across Techcomp’s operations in Europe, Middle East, USA, and Latin America.

Key Responsibilities will include:

• Driving digital strategy
• Accountable for technology strategy including t formulating and implementing a technology roadmap for the business
• Cybersecurity throughout the organisation
• End User Compute (EUC) facilities
• Application management
• Driving the use of M365 applications to improve collaboration across projects and between sites including the use of SharePoint
• Vendor management and control of IT budgets
• Management of a small IT team on site in Livingston
• Provide user training, advice, support, and feedback
• Project manage migrations of business management software such as ERP and CRM
• Ensure all relevant regulations (e.g., software licencing laws) are followed
• Management of the IT and systems infrastructure globally through a matrix
• Driving best practice of IT systems throughout the organisation

What You’ll Need to Bring

• A degree in a relevant subject or appropriate experience
• Hands-on M365 knowledge
• Experience in Systems Administration/Engineering with M365
• Experience in vendor management
• Agile delivery experience
• Customer focused – a good understanding of how decisions benefit end customers and internal stakeholders
• Ability to deliver solutions driven by use case – adept at selecting and implement appropriate technology to a wide variety of problems
• Results orientated, quick learner and multi-tasker and able to successfully manage workload and timescales.
• Excellent verbal and interpersonal skills, a good communicator
• Prepared to travel occasionally

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 hours between Monday and 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.

If you are interested in applying for this role, please send your cover letter and CV to oak176@oakleighresourcing.co.uk