Position: Lead Electronics Engineer

Location of work: Sedgefield + Hybrid WFH

Salary: Up to £65,000 + 10% pension, Private Healthcare and 28 days holiday + bank holidays

The Role: Our award-winning, innovation led client are now looking for a Lead Electronics Engineer to lead and grow their electronics engineering team. This role will be technically hands on and will also involve managing a small team of engineers, leading projects, and taking responsibility for strategy and process level decisions. If you are a technically hands on electronics engineering/R&D manager or a senior electronics engineer looking to take that step up this could be the role for you.

Our client specialises in taking prototypes from concept stage all the way through to technology readiness level working with a variety of customers, predominately in the healthcare tech sector; mainly wearable and wireless connected devices. In their 15 plus years they have built up a very strong reputation in their sector and as such work with a host of industry leading names so there are plenty of exciting and innovative new projects on their product road map awaiting the successful candidate.

Key Skills and Experience Required:

• Electronics design skills
• Team leadership experience
• Project leadership experience
• Experience as a Technical authority
• Customer facing skills

As the lead in the Electronics team, you will be expected to take technical ownership, allocate work packages and take on day to day management responsibility for the team. You will also be required to be the technical face of the company with new customers and at appropriate stages of the process, so can expect to liaise with customers face to face and via video calls. Therefore, experience in similar scenarios and the communication skills required for such tasks are required.

Desirable Skills and Experience:

• Experience within the medical or healthcare tech industries
• Team and technical management experience
• Experience with wireless connected devices

For more information on this exciting, new position do contact Laurence Powell or Andrew Knight at KO2 Recruitment today!

Position: Embedded Software Engineer

Salary: Up to £65,000

Location of office: Newcastle

Location of work: Hybrid WFH Available

The role: An exciting role has now been created for an Embedded Software Engineer to join one of UK’s fastest growing technology companies specialising in the emerging robotics and automation market. Our client is currently working with a host of market leaders towards the development of a range of revolutionary products. Their head office is in the Northeast but they are happy for the role to be performed on a hybrid work from home basis.

Joining a team of engineers with experience across a range of disciplines your focus will be to build maintainable and well-tested embedded software applications which will form a key part of a range of complex distributed systems. You will across the full development life cycle and be given the chance to work with new technology developments in a challenging and rewarding environment.

The ideal Embedded Software Engineer will be degree qualified and enjoy the challenge of solving complicated problems whilst working on new product designs. You will be comfortable working in a small team, have experience in a similar role and be able to illustrate experience with the following:

Skills and experience required:

• Embedded C/C++
• Microcontroller programming – ARM Cortex preferred
• I2C, SPI, UART, RS232, CAN etc
• Bare metal or RTOS development
• Degree qualification within an Engineering subject

Desirable skills and experience:

• Unit testing or test driven development
• FreeRTOS
• CI/CD pipelines
• Azure DevOps

The successful Embedded Software Engineer will get the chance to focus on new product developments, working in a small team environment using state of the art technologies and techniques.

For the chance to be considered for this unique opportunity please contact Laurence Powell or Chris Fawcett at KO2 Embedded Recruitment Solutions Ltd with an up-to-date CV today.

Position: Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

Location of office: Cramlington

Our client, a business who are leaders in technical consultancy whilst offering their own bespoke product design arm are looking to recruit a proactive and dynamic Mechanical Design Engineer to the team. The business is looking for a Mechanical Design Engineer who can push a design through in a sharp timeframe. This is a role that will allow you to work on multiple designs, there will be clear deliverables in terms of time and cost and hence the business needs problem solvers.

The business needs a Mechanical Design Engineer who can sit in front of a problem and find a solution. The role is varied, and you could be working on the businesses own product which is a complex mechanical system with moving parts, or you could be working on a variety of projects for the consultancy arm such as, sporting design, automation systems or robotic systems.

Whilst this Mechanical Design role certainly involves Research and Design and Development, it is not a role where the R&D phase can go on for 5 years, deadlines need to be met, hence we need a Mechanical Design Engineer who has an outcome focus and a delivery focus. The business is comfortable which 3D CAD package the Mechanical Design Engineer has worked with, be it Solidworks, Inventor or CREO for example, the business itself uses Autodesk Inventor, but will accept any package.

Key Skills:

• Mechanical Design
• 3D CAD – Autodesk desired
• Ambitious
• Proactive
• Outcome and Delivery Focussed

Nice to have skills:

• Electro-Mechanical Focus
• Robotics and automated devices
• Experience building systems from the ground up

If you are a Mechanical Design Engineer who wants to work on systems that make a difference to the global infrastructure and you want to solve complex real-world problems, please apply today.