Future Platform Team: Innovation Engineer
Job Description
Job title: Future Platform Team: Innovation Engineer
Company: Atlas Copco
Job description: Our solutions are a key part of most industries – electronics, medical research, renewable energy, food production, infrastructure and many more. Working with us means working with the latest technologies and groundbreaking, sustainable innovations.Join us on our journey for a better tomorrow.The Future Platform Team’s mission is to identify, critically assess, and recommend novel and innovative technologies for integration into present and forthcoming smart joining systems. Working in close collaboration with product experts, suppliers, research organisations, and fellow engineers at Atlas Copco, your role as a Future Platform Team Innovation Engineer will be to blend your engineering creativity, specialised knowledge, and analytical expertise with Agile and lean product development approaches to research, assess, and advocate for cutting-edge technologies and applications crucial for the success of our upcoming products and overall business. This pivotal role within R&D, as part of a newly established team with a focused and significant remit, positions you to directly impact the technological advancement and future prosperity of the company.Here’s what you’ll be doing: * Supporting the identification and critical evaluation of innovative components, technologies, and engineering methodologies for integration into the company’s product portfolio to enhance system performance and reduce development and manufacturing expenses
- Contributing to fostering a culture of sustainable development, ensuring that future products are designed with a holistic, life-cycle perspective, aligned with the company’s sustainability and circular economy objectives
- Establishing productive relationships with stakeholders, including product and portfolio management, suppliers, multidisciplinary R&D teams, and research institutes, to gather insights and requirements that will shape the development of next-generation mechatronic products
- Continuously updating your knowledge of industry trends, competitor offerings, and advancements in mechatronics, robotics, and automation to inform the development of cutting-edge joining products
- Ensuring accurate recording and documentation of development and testing activities to facilitate effective knowledge management
- Supporting the design, development, and manufacture of prototypes, validating their functionality through rigorous testing and analysis to confirm compliance with design specifications and performance criteria
- Actively participate in, and occasionally lead, innovation-generation sessions to identify breakthrough ideas and concepts for new products or enhancements to existing ones.
- Designing and implement testing methodologies to assess product performance and optimise designs.
Here are the essential qualifications and skills you need:
- Prior experience in a professional engineering setting, with particular involvement in product development
- Practical experience in relevant engineering industries and roles
- Familiarity with hands-on engineering activities (e.g., assembling equipment, configuring test rigs, conducting test activities etc.)
- Ability to understand and interpret engineering data and competently devise and apply measurement and inspection methodologies to understand unit and system performance
- Capacity to create high-quality technical reports that can effectively inform and influence stakeholders.
Desirable qualifications and skills (if not currently possessed, support will be provided):
- Experience with Solid Edge (or similar CAD applications)
- Experience problem solving with industrial control systems and communication protocols
- Electrical prototype design and assembly to support research testing
- Familiarity with engineering techniques to evaluate candidate technologies and converge on a recommendation
- Knowledge of Industry 4.0 enabling technologies
- Familiarity with agile (e.g. Scrum) and lean product development (e.g. set-based concurrent engineering) techniques, approaches, and mindset)
- Worked in an industry supplying machinery for use in high-production environments (e.g., automotive)
The ideal candidate will also possess the following qualities:
- Resilience, optimism, and the willingness to encourage both oneself and others to grow beyond their comfort zones
- Strong interpersonal skills with a customer-focused mindset
- Capable of identifying key insights and conclusions from engineering and test data
- Comfortable expressing engineering opinions and the professional integrity to stand behind engineering convictions
- Able to foster and sustain productive working relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders.
At Atlas Copco, we are committed to creating a caring and inclusive environment. Our collaborative culture means you will quickly become part of our team and feel a sense of belonging. We give you the support and inspiration you need to continuously learn and grow. By doing this, we enable you to connect your own individual drive to our group purpose and together contribute to a better tomorrow.We continuously invest in our people so that everyone can realize their full potential, and our generous pension scheme with an employer contribution of up to 10% will help you plan for your future. Our ambition is to offer competitive salaries and benefits, continuous learning and a healthy work-life balance. We are value-driven and are always looking for people who share our culture of innovation, commitment and collaboration.
- Safety and well-being
The health and well-being of our people are vital to us, which is why we set very ambitious standards for workplace safety. We promote a healthy and active lifestyle and offer a range of physical and mental fitness opportunities as well as private medical care and a health cashplan worth over £700 per year.
- Continuous Learning
As a learning organization, we prepare our people for a dynamic business environment and support their professional as well as personal development by making learning easy, accessible and personal and providing subsidised study programs.
- Belonging
At Atlas Copco we know that people make it happen. We also know that our people are the most crucial component for success. With initiatives such as our DE&I Committee, Employee Forum and our range of ambassador programs we encourage our people to be the change they want to see, to take up leadership opportunities and use their knowledge and their voices to enhance our culture.
- Sustainability
For us sustainability is not just a label we put on how we do business. Thinking about long-term results and the various ways in which we make an impact to protect both people and the planet has long been a part of who we are and what we do. At Deeside, we walk the talk, and we empower our people as part of our Eco Steering Committee to take action to achieve our sustainability goals.
- Giving back
Water for All is the Atlas Copco Group’s main community engagement initiative. Through the dedicated and passionate work of volunteering employees, Water for All funds projects which empower people through access to clean drinking water, sanitation and hygiene. All employee donations are matched by twice as much by Atlas Copco.Within Atlas Copco people make change happen so how you think will set you apart. We believe that an active growth mindset is empowering and will enable us to deliver to the best of our ability and you will be encouraged and supported to act to identify ‘a better way’ to make products and people’s quality of life better. If you are the right person, then you will instinctively know that the technical skills of our team are enhanced by their soft skills and that we need both to reach our optimal performanceDiverse by nature and inclusive by choice
Bright ideas come from all of us. The more unique perspectives we embrace, the more innovative we are. Together we build a culture where difference is valued and we share a deep sense of purpose and belonging.
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Location: Connah’s Quay, Flintshire
