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Role: Optical Product Engineer

Location: USA (home-based with travel)

Type: Permanent

Edinburgh Instruments are looking to recruit an Optical Product and Applications Engineer to support our expanding spectroscopy business. The role is home-based with significant travel throughout North America (mainly) and Latin America.  In this role, you will be responsible for providing service and support to our customers and technical sales support to our Americas sales team. This is primarily a technical role for those with good knowledge of optical spectroscopy who are seeking to apply it to a commercial setting.

Key Responsibilities

• Visit customer sites for spectrometer installations, training, service and maintenance.
• Provide service, technical, and applications support to existing end-users both remotely and on customer site
• Provide instrument demos, product training, applications training to end-users, potential customers and distributors through seminars, webinars and conference attendance.
• Strengthen existing customer relationships and develop new relationships within the Americas spectroscopy research community to build research collaborations.
• Support the rest of the Americas sales team with technical and application expertise.
• Discuss with potential customers what spectroscopy solution best fits their research requirements to help close orders
• Regular meetings with the Americas sales manager to discuss customers and update the customer database (CRM).
• Write application notes, technical documentation and create presentations/webinars.
• Analysis of the optical spectroscopy market in the Americas to identify growth areas, new applications and funding trends
• Liaise with other teams internally, such as working with research & development for a bespoke order or creating technical content with the marketing team.
• Flexibility to travel nationally and internationally to install instruments, visit customer sites for service/support, attend exhibitions and conferences, and support sales teams and distributors and visit headquarters in the UK. Travel is expected to be around 40% of the time predominantly in North America.
• Be the expert in this field, partaking in proactive customer interactions to promote the Edinburgh Instrument’s product and spectroscopy solutions.

Person Specification

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree in a physical science discipline. 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.
• Experience of these spectroscopy techniques at a component level, such as building an optical system in a lab, would be a particular advantage.

PROFESSIONAL & PERSONAL SKILLS

• 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.

Additional Details About the Role

Hours: Salary, FLSA exempt

Benefits: 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; 401K plan with match; medical, dental and vision plan; life and disability; vacation and holiday pay

Salary: A competitive salary package is available to the right candidate.

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.

About Edinburgh Instruments

For 50 years Edinburgh Instruments has been providing customers at leading-edge research institutes, academic and industrial facilities with the best fluorescence spectroscopy products in the world.  Our products combine customisation, user-friendliness and high performance and are experiencing higher-than-ever demand in this growing worldwide marketplace.

To apply via email please send your CV to jobs@edinst.com using Job Ref: USA Operations Job Advert.

Role: Sales Engineer

Location: USA (Remote)

Type: Permanent

Reports To: Sales & Marketing Manager – Americas

This new role at Edinburgh Instruments has been 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

• 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 solutions.

Person Specification

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a physical science discipline. Chemistry, Material Science, Physics would be a distinct advantage.
• Proven sales experience, understanding of the academic sales process and pipeline management.
• Understanding of optical spectroscopy techniques such as photoluminescence or Raman spectroscopy/microscopy is required.

PROFESSIONAL & PERSONAL SKILLS

• 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 writing and presentation skills.

Additional Details About the Role

Hours: Salary, FLSA exempt

Benefits: 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; 401K plan with match; medical, dental and vision plan; life and disability; vacation and holiday pay

Salary: A competitive salary package is available to the right candidate.

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.

Why Edinburgh Instruments?

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.

To apply email your CV to ussales@edinst.com

Company: Techcomp Research & Engineering Centre
Job Title: Electronics Design Engineer
Reports to: Senior Electronics Design Engineer
Location: Livingston, Scotland

 Job Purpose & key responsibilities:

We are seeking an enthusiastic, self-motivated, Electronics Design Engineer to join our expanding R&D team within Techcomp, Scotland, UK. In this role you will contribute to the development and testing of scientific instrumentation and laboratory products. The role will require the ability to fit in well as part of a team, whilst also being capable of working independently.

• Component selection, schematic capture, and PCB layout.
• Assembly and testing of prototype PCBs, wiring harnesses and devices.
• Writing technical documentation.

Qualifications & Experience:

Essential:

• Degree or higher in an electronics engineering discipline (Candidate without formal qualifications who can demonstrate relevant experience will also be considered).
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience of working in R&D environments within the electronics engineering industry.
• Experienced in component selection, schematic capture, and PCB layout.
• Excellent practical skills; soldering, wire crimping, and assembly of prototype electronics.
• Experience of working closely with firmware engineers to develop electronic systems.

Desirable:

• Exposure to full product lifecycle activities; NPD, NPI, sustaining and maintenance engineering.
• Experience of writing C language-based firmware code (highly desirable).
• Experienced in using Python or other script-based languages (highly desirable).
• Previous experience of using Altium and SVN.
• Exposure to working in a multidisciplinary technical team.

Personal attributes:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including writing of technical documents.
• Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously, independently and as part of a team.
• Detail oriented with the ability to work through complex issues with a methodical approach to solving technical problems.
• Keen to learn with a desire to develop your own knowledge and experience.

Remuneration

Salary – The range for this post is £DOE plus bonus and competitive benefits package.

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Company: Techcomp Research & Engineering Centre
Job Title: Software & Firmware Engineer
Reports to: Product Development Manager
Location: Livingston, Scotland

Job Purpose & key responsibilities:

We are seeking an enthusiastic, self-motivated, experienced Software & Firmware Engineer to join our expanding R&D team within Techcomp, Scotland, UK. In this role you will contribute to the development and testing of scientific instrumentation and laboratory products. The role will require the ability to fit in well as part of a team, whilst also being capable of working independently.

The key responsibilities for this role include:

• Capturing specifications, then subsequently developing code, testing, debugging and releasing accordingly.
• Writing supporting documentation detailing code architecture, function and purpose.
• Collaboration with Electronics Design Engineers to ensure harmony of hardware and associated coding.

The role will primarily be focussed on embedded firmware (with an expectation to work on relevant software programming as required), and will provide the successful candidate with the opportunity to drive, and be responsible for the coding on designated projects.

Technologies involved:

A range of scientific technologies are used within the Techcomp Group products, these include; analytical instruments using Fluorescence/UV-Vis Spectroscopy, Gas Chromatography and Mass Spectroscopy, Metrology, Refrigeration, Lasers and various other specialist areas.

Qualifications & Experience:

Essential:

• Degree or higher in a Computer Science / Software Engineering / Electronics Engineering discipline (Candidate without formal qualifications, or with relevant science/engineering degrees who can demonstrate relevant experience will also be considered).
• Proven experience of commercial or industrial software / firmware product development to high quality standards (Minimum 3 years’ experience).
• Experience in all areas of software / firmware development – from gathering requirements and writing specifications to testing and debugging.
• Experience of writing firmware in C, within RTOS and bare metal environments.
• Knowledgeable and experienced in the use of ARM processors (STM32F series highly desirable).
• Using communications interfaces including SPI, I²C, USB and Ethernet to connect to hardware devices such as controllers, sensors and cameras
• Controlling and monitoring hardware devices including digital I/Os, ADCs, DACs, stepper motors, and temperature sensors.
• Experience of interfacing with external RAM and Flash.
• Able to read and understand the technical detail of electronic schematic diagrams, and component data sheets.
• Experience of using Source Code Management (SVN desirable) and Bug tracking tools (JIRA desirable).
• Able to work independently and as part of a team.

Desirable:

• Experienced using IAR Embedded Workbench
• Experience of C# / C++ / Python / Assembler programming languages.
• User Interface (UI) design skills using emWin.
• Broad Microsoft Windows and Linux programming.
• Good understanding of Object Oriented Design methods and patterns, including Unified Modelling Language (UML).
• Experience of data processing coding development such as; data visualisation, charting and graphics
• Knowledge in acquisition, processing, analysis and interpretation of spectroscopic data from analytical scientific instrumentation.
• Experience of working in multidiscipline technical R&D environments, collaborating with engineering or scientific colleagues.

Personal attributes:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including writing of technical documents.
• Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Detail oriented with the ability to work through complex issues with a methodical approach to solving technical problems.
• Occasional travel (including international) may be required.

Remuneration

Salary – The range for this post is £DOE plus bonus, pension and PHI.

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As part of our product development strategy we are looking for Software Engineers to join our teams designing and developing software for our expanding range of Spectrometer products at our Livingston base.

Our software products cover a broad range of functionality, ranging from data acquisition and hardware control to graphical visualisation, data processing and numerical analysis, and data management.

You should be

• A self-starter with several years of experience in commercial or industrial software product development for the Microsoft Windows platform
• Degree qualified in software engineering or a related engineering/science discipline with relevant software development experience.
• Highly fluent in technical English
• Lives within or willing to relocate to reasonable commuting distance of Livingston
• Valid UK work permit and/or EU residency qualification.

Technical Skills Required

• Broad Microsoft Windows programming experience – currently we use Delphi, C++ and C# languages
• Experience in all areas of software development – from gathering requirements and writing specs to testing/debugging and documentation
• 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

Any additional experience in at least one of the following areas is welcomed

• Instrumentation – Scientific/Medical, hardware interfacing, data acquisition, USB devices, sensors, motor control, etc.
• Graphics – Data visualisation, charting, 3D
• Mathematical programming – Algorithms, statistics, etc.

Benefits

• Edinburgh Instruments operates flexible working hours within a 37.5 hour working week, including an early finish on Fridays.
• Employment paid sickness, death in service & permanent health insurance
• Private medical insurance
• Pension scheme
• Paid holidays with flexible statutory holidays and a Christmas shutdown
• Performance related bonus scheme
• Subsidised gym membership

Company:           Techcomp Research & Engineering Centre
Job Title:             Software Development Engineer
Reports to:         Software Team Leader
Location:             Livingston, Scotland

Job Purpose & key responsibilities:

We are seeking enthusiastic, self-motivated, Software Engineers to join our expanding R&D team within Techcomp, Scotland, UK. In this role you will contribute to the development and testing of software for scientific instrumentation and laboratory products. The role will require the ability to fit in well as part of a team, whilst also being capable of working independently. Key activities of the role include:

• The design, development, testing and debugging of new and existing software.
• Working with technical colleagues to understand end user requirements, problems and issues, and subsequently develop targeted software solutions to fulfil them.
• Engages in the software development process, including writing and maintaining documentation.

Qualifications & Experience:

Essential:

• Degree or higher in a software engineering discipline (Candidate without formal qualifications who can demonstrate relevant experience will also be considered).
• Experienced in a range of programming languages and tools including;
  • C#, .NET, Entity Framework, SQLServer, WCF, WPF and Windows services
  • TeamCity, Subversion, Git
  • DevExpress UI tools
• Commercial software development experience, working to software coding, review and testing standards and best practice.
• Experience of writing software documentation including requirements, testing, installation and user documentation.

Desirable:

• Experienced in some or all of; Xamarin, Android, Web technologies and services, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Typescript, and Hardware interfacing techniques.
• Experience of mathematical and graphical data programming including algorithms, statistics, graphs, charting and 3D Data visualisation.
• Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team.

Personal attributes:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including writing of technical documents.
• Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously, independently and as part of a team.
• Detail oriented with the ability to work through complex issues with a methodical approach to solving technical problems.
• Keen to learn with a desire to develop your own knowledge and experience.

Remuneration

Salary – The range for this post is £DOE plus pension and benefits package.

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Title: Sales Manager – EEMEA region (within our General Laboratory Products Group)
Based: Livingston, Scotland
Salary dependent on experience

This is a brand-new role and exciting career opportunity for a Sales Manager or highly commercial lab expert seeking a transition into Sales.  Our client is a division of Techcomp Europe, which consists of a group of SME scientific instrument manufacturing businesses with production sites across Europe.  Our UK HQ is based at our campus site in Livingston, Scotland where we have recently invested in our SME facilities. Our Laboratory Products Group, with commercial operations based in Livingston, is responsible for the sales and support of Techcomp Instruments’ general laboratory products into the Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (“the region”).

We are seeking a dynamic, proactive and self-motivated Sales Manager with good technical knowledge and a level of understanding of analytical & life science environments & equipment. Ideally our Sales Manager will have a scientific degree, however if you have experience of the industry and a good understanding of General laboratory environments and their applications rather than a formal qualification, we’d still like to hear from you. It’s really important that you will be able to converse with customers about their requirements, speak from a position of knowledge about our products, and that you feel ‘at home’ in the lab environment.  You may currently be working in a lab with the desire to move into Sales, where you can put your technical knowledge to commercial use.  The role will require the ability to fit in well as part of a team; operate effectively in a multi-cultural and diverse environment. You should also be capable of working independently, as a large part of your time will be operating across your region.

Reporting directly to the General Manager, responsibilities will include:

• Recruitment of new distribution partners
• Management of existing distribution partners in specific territories.
• Assistance and co-ordination of activities and information with HQ based marketing and product management team to share ideas and market intelligence.
• Support and communicate regularly with peers in the manufacturing operations in France, China and Switzerland
• Generate a sales pipeline and management of the Techcomp CRM database to provide visibility of opportunities and communications
• Provide support for tenders and opportunities with dealers in their markets

It is expected that our new Sales Manager will spend at least 50% of their time travelling to customers sites across “the region”.  Whilst there are restrictions on global travel at the present time, we are operating a mix of remote & office working, supported by technology to ensure we continue to meet our growth targets and customer engagement. This is very much a self-directed role where you will be expected to grow our sales pipeline and generate new sales from initial opportunity.  With appropriate training you’ll carry out product demonstrations and providing practical support to end-users. You’ll enjoy visiting customer sites and be naturally curious about their set up.

For more information, please call our exclusively retained Consultant Elaine Rippon of Oakleigh Resourcing on 01477 534491; view the full job spec on www.oakleighresourcing.co.uk.  To apply email your CV to  oak147@oakleighresourcing.co.uk  No agencies please.