Senior Scientist

1 month ago

Seer Green, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom PerkinElmer Full time
Purpose

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior/Project Scientist to support our busy program of new product development work. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing a good understanding of the function and use of the product as well as the underlying technology, in order to be able to develop and document both high-level functional and performance requirements and detailed sub-system requirements.

Responsibilities
  • Proactively promote product quality and understand the products' performance parameters both at the system and sub-system level.
  • Contribute to high-level design in one or more engineering disciplines, detailing and production of models, drawings etc. will not be the responsibility of the systems/development engineer.
  • Interact with other design engineers to understand potential failure modes and design and conduct experiments to test both product performance and the performance of manufacturing fixtures.
  • Undertake experimental data analysis and produce summary reports, work with and guide junior staff members in executing test plans and interpreting results.
  • Actively participate in troubleshooting activities including root cause analysis both in the context of new product development and ongoing manufacturing issues.
  • Specify any software or fixtures required for verification activities and be proficient at using software for data collection/analysis.
  • Work with other engineers to construct the necessary test equipment and work with external test houses.
  • Identify the need for and specify manufacturing test/QA fixtures and processes, liaise with manufacturing and service to understand quality issues.
  • Work within our product development process, exercise responsibility for product quality and performance, and produce the required level of documentation.
  • Drive continuous improvement of verification processes and manage personal development towards understanding underlying technologies.
Basic Qualifications
  • Bachelor of Science, either physics or an engineering discipline.
  • 5 years experience in the design, troubleshooting and manufacture of electro-mechanical equipment (preferably instrumentation).
  • Experience of working within a structured development program.
  • Sufficient engineering/physics/math knowledge.
  • Proven ability to assess technical risk and to recognise failure modes.
  • Proven ability to plan a program of work and drive it to completion.
  • Proven ability to design and construct experiments.
  • A structured approach to work and the ability to operate within a formal framework.
  • Good data analysis and report writing skills.
  • Ability to use complex software.
Advantageous
  • Postgraduate qualification in an engineering or physical science discipline.
  • Good physics knowledge.
  • Knowledge of optics.
  • Experience in developing high precision designs.
  • Experience of product development within a company making some form of measurement instrumentation.
  • Familiarity with product design methodologies.
  • Formal training in FMEA.
  • Scientific background or interests.
  • Some business knowledge.
  • Some programming skills.
  • Some manufacturing knowledge.
Preferred Characteristics
  • Ability to work independently or as part of a large team.
  • Possessing a task- and goal-oriented mindset.
  • Analytical thinking driven by data.
  • Ability to see both the small and the big picture.
  • Possessing strong organisational skills.
  • Problem solving aptitude.
  • Attention to detail.
  • Adaptable to change.

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