• Belfast (Hybrid)
• Up to £47 per hour, outside IR35
• 6 month contract (likely extension)

We’re recruiting for a Contract Mechanical Design Engineer with Solidworks experience to support an established electronics manufacturer in Belfast.

This is a great opportunity to join a busy product development team working on high volume electronic products, with a strong focus on plastic injection moulded components and associated mechanical design.

You’ll be working on a mix of 2D and 3D SolidWorks design work, supporting active development projects and helping to refine and update existing product designs.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Producing and updating Solidworks 2D engineering drawings
• Carrying out Solidworks 3D CAD modelling and design refinements
• Supporting the design and development of plastic injection moulded components
• Working closely with a small engineering team on live product development projects
• Contributing to the design of products used to house electronic PCB assemblies

Skills Required:

• Strong experience using SolidWorks
• Experience producing both 2D drawings and 3D models
• Background in designing plastic injection moulded parts
• Good understanding of GD&T / geometric tolerancing
• Previous experience in a mechanical design engineering role

Desirable:

• Experience designing enclosures or housings for electronic PCBs
• Experience working on electronic or electro-mechanical products
• Background in manufacturing / product development environments

Contract Details

• Location: Belfast
• Working Pattern: Hybrid – 3 to 4 days on site, 1 to 2 days remote
• Rate: Up to £47 per hour, outside IR35
• Contract Length: 6 months initially

A one stage interview can be quickly arranged.

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We’re recruiting for a senior DevOps Engineer to support a growing engineering team working on embedded software and connected hardware systems.

This is a hands-on role focused on CI/CD, build and release pipelines, tooling, and test infrastructure for embedded products. You’ll work closely with Software, QA and Hardware teams to improve and maintain a robust delivery environment.

This opportunity would suit someone with experience in embedded systems, electronics-led environments, hardware-connected software, or HIL / hardware-based test setups.

The Role

You’ll be responsible for supporting and improving the DevOps and tooling environment that underpins embedded software delivery.

Key responsibilities

• Own and improve the CI/CD environment for embedded software delivery
• Maintain and enhance GitHub Actions pipelines for build, test, release and deployment
• Support build, packaging, artifact management and release processes
• Help evolve tooling following a migration from Jenkins to GitHub
• Support deployment and testing across hardware rigs / Raspberry Pi-based environments
• Work closely with QA and engineering teams on test automation and build reliability
• Improve code quality, pipeline stability and release traceability
• Contribute to future improvements across cloud, virtualised or scalable infrastructure

What We’re Looking For

• Strong background in DevOps, Build & Release Engineering, or CI/CD
• Experience supporting embedded software, firmware, or electronics-based products
• Strong hands-on experience with GitHub Actions
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Good experience with build tooling, release tooling and artifact management
• Strong scripting / automation capability
• Experience working closely with Software Engineers and QA teams
• Understanding of Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) or physical device-based test environments would be highly beneficial
• Exposure to AWS / cloud infrastructure would be advantageous

Tech Environment

• GitHub / GitHub Actions
• Embedded software / electronic devices
• Raspberry Pi test infrastructure
• Jenkins to GitHub migration
• Build, release and quality tooling
• Potential AWS / virtualised environments

This is a great opportunity to join a team where the DevOps capability is already established, but now needs a strong engineer to help support, improve and scale it as the wider engineering function grows.

If you have experience in DevOps for embedded systems, hardware-linked software environments, electronics products, or HIL testing infrastructure, we are keen to hear from you.

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Rate: Up to £70 per hour (Outside IR35)
Location: East Glasgow – Hybrid (3 days onsite)
Contract: 6 months initially (likely to extend)

A medical electronics company is looking to hire a Contract Electronics Engineer to join an established engineering team. This role covers the full electronics product lifecycle, with a strong emphasis on electronics testing, characterisation and verification, rather than brand new electronics design.

You’ll work in a collaborative, multi-disciplinary environment alongside electronics engineers, mechanical engineers, embedded software engineers and scientists, helping to understand and improve complex medical systems.

The role

• Work across the full electronics product lifecycle, from design review through to test and verification
• Lead and execute electronics testing, characterisation and system level investigations
• Develop and run test plans to assess performance, limits and system interactions
• Review schematics and PCB designs and contribute to design discussions
• Collaborate daily with mechanical, software and scientific teams
• Support systems involving fluidic control mechanisms and optics

This role suits an Electronics Engineer who enjoys hands on hardware work and understanding how systems behave in the real world.

Skills required

• Strong experience as an Electronics Engineer, covering both design and test
• Solid electronics fundamentals with the confidence to challenge designs
• Hands on experience with electronics testing and characterisation
• Able to communicate clearly with non-electronics specialists
• Curious, practical mindset and interest in electronics

Years of experience are flexible. The focus is on capability, attitude and the ability to contribute quickly.

Tools & environment

• Schematic and PCB design using Altium
• On site lab and test facilities
• Close collaboration with other electronics engineers and wider engineering teams

If you’re an electronics engineer who enjoys testing, problem solving and working on real products, this is a great contract opportunity.

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Salary: Up to £60,000

Location: 4 days remote, 1 day per week in the Burnley office

About the company

KO2’s client designs and delivers remote sensor technology for automotive applications. The business works with large volumes of data collected from multiple sources and uses cloud-based platforms to turn that data into meaningful insights for internal teams and customers.

The role

KO2 are looking for a Data Engineer to join a growing technical team. This role will focus on building, maintaining and improving data pipelines that bring together data from a range of internal systems, external APIs and cloud environments. You will work closely with colleagues who consume the data, ensuring it is reliable, well structured and fit for purpose.

This is a hands on role with a mix of data engineering, cloud infrastructure and light DevOps responsibilities. You will have the opportunity to help tidy up and standardise existing solutions, migrate or replace legacy components, and implement best practices across the data platform.

Key responsibilities

• Designing, building and maintaining data pipelines in AWS
• Combining and transforming data from multiple sources into usable datasets
• Writing and maintaining production-quality Python code
• Working with databases and data storage solutions
• Improving existing pipelines through standardisation and best practices
• Supporting CI/CD and infrastructure work, including CloudFormation and related tools
• Taking ownership of solutions and validating that outputs make sense from a data and business perspective

Required experience

• Strong Python programming experience is essential
• Hands-on cloud experience is essential, ideally AWS
• Experience working with databases and data-driven systems
• Background in data engineering, analytics engineering or a closely related role
• Ability to understand data logic and question results, not just move data from A to B

Desirable experience

• AWS services for data engineering
• CI/CD and DevOps tooling
• Infrastructure as code, such as CloudFormation
• Experience with Azure or GCP is acceptable if you can demonstrate the ability to transfer skills to AWS

The ideal candidate

You will have a solid foundation in data engineering and cloud technologies and be keen to continue developing your skills. You may not tick every box, but you will be curious, proactive and comfortable learning new tools where needed. Attitude, problem-solving ability and long-term fit are as important as existing technical skills

Location and working pattern

This role is remote-first, with four days per week working from home and one day per week in the Burnley office. The in-office day is typically Tuesday and is an important part of team collaboration. Candidates should be within a reasonable commuting distance to make weekly attendance sustainable.

Salary

Up to £60,000 depending on experience, with flexibility for candidates who meet the majority of requirements.

Apply today with an up to date CV for immediate consideration.

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