Applications Manager – Gloucestershire

The Special Projects team at Renishaw is a multi-disciplinary team supporting high value customers in the consumer electronics manufacturing industry by developing and optimising processes that leverage Renishaw’s industrial metrology products. The main functions of the team include:

• Delivery of high value, high complexity customer process control and final QA solutions, including solving non-standard measurement challenges (e.g. cosmetic parts, thin walls, glass, and complex assemblies).
• Support for consumer electronics focused subsidiary teams, ensuring solutions can be scaled, transferred, and reused globally across multiple customer manufacturing sites.
• Process and product development, including feeding customer requirements into future product development.

This is an exciting opportunity for an Applications Manager to shape the future direction of the Special Projects team. In this highly visible and varied role, the successful candidate will lead a team of Applications and Development engineers, oversee key programmes and remain closely involved as a technical expert.

Responsibilities

• Keep up to date with emerging manufacturing trends and growth areas in technology and consumer electronics to identify new applications for Renishaw’s industrial metrology products.
• Work with customers to understand inspection challenges and drive development, testing and implementation of customised measurement and process control solutions using Renishaw CMM and gauging products.
• Coordinate with subsidiary teams across the US, UK and APAC to allocate projects to the most suitable region based on customer needs, skills, capacity and cost.
• Use customer requirements and feedback to influence the development of new hardware and software products.
• Ensure compliance with strict customer and project-specific confidentiality requirements.

Key Requirements

• Management and/or programme management experience, with the ability to lead a multi-disciplinary engineering team delivering high value, technically complex customer projects.
• Customer facing experience, including confidence to engage directly with key customers.
• Expert understanding of measurement principles, with the ability to apply them to non-standard measurement challenges involving complex materials, assemblies and manufacturing environments.
• Excellent problem-solving skills with a proactive approach to customer challenges.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to convey complex technical information to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Familiarity with Renishaw’s CMM and gauging products (both software and hardware), including how they are applied.

Desirable Requirements

• Knowledge of Renishaw’s machine tool probing and tool setting products lines.
• Good understanding of manufacturing principles, particularly in high-volume production environments.
• Experience operating in the APAC region, including working with overseas subsidiaries.
• Knowledge of 2D/3D machine vision and other non-contact inspection technologies.

The successful candidate will be required to travel, both domestically and internationally, to customer and subsidiary sites on occasion.

Benefits

When you join Renishaw, we’re committing to your future career. That’s because we believe in developing our people’s skills and promoting them internally. We also offer a benefits package that’s highly desirable; including a 9% non-contributory pension, discretionary annual bonus, subsidised onsite restaurants and coffee shops, free parking, car sharing scheme and 24 hour fitness centres (not available at all sites). We also want to promote a healthy work-life balance as much as possible, so we have introduced a hybrid working policy which allows for a combination of home and office based working depending on the nature of your role. We also offer a variable working programme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, Life Assurance policy of 12 times annual salary, Cycle to Work scheme, enhanced maternity pay subject to qualifying criteria, Health Cash Plan, the option to join BUPA Renishaw Health Trust and an Employee Assistance Programme for employees and family.

If you are excited about the role but feel as though you don’t meet all the requirements, we would encourage you still to apply. You might just be the right person for this role or another opportunity at Renishaw.

Employment Type: Permanent

Time Type: Full time