KO2 is hiring a Test Technician for a top-rated medical device company with an excellent reputation. This urgent contract role involves hands-on testing for a suite of medical device products. You should have proven skills within force testing & working within a regulated environment. Someone with strong quality understanding & a background in medical devices, is the perfect fit for this position.

The Role:

• Test and validate medical devices
• Analyse data to support design verification
• Develop and run new test procedures
• Document all technical and test activity to required standards
• Carry out stress and force testing in a lab environment
• Ensure design files meet regulatory and quality requirements

Requirements:

• Proven test technician experience in medical or regulated industries
• Skilled in device testing and lab-based protocols
• Strong data analysis and documentation skills

Apply now to join a high impact medical device project as a key technician in the test team.

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The Role

You’ll be joining a live, business critical project as a Senior SCADA/Controls Engineer, developing and supporting the automated control system that manages power generation across multiple sources on site. This is high-consequence work on infrastructure where reliability is essential, and you’ll be working closely with an experienced in-house engineering team to deliver it.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Developing and supporting SCADA/EMS control logic integrating generators, battery energy storage (BESS) and wind generation into one automated system
• Working with an Enercon-based wind SCADA platform, coordinating closed-loop automatic control across energy sources
• Building HMI screens, alarm management and historical data logging
• Supporting automatic transitions between generation sources, load management and diesel dispatch logic
• Working to a Functional Design Specification (FDS) and contributing to its ongoing development
• Liaising directly with site engineering teams on the safe delivery of control changes

What We’re Looking For

• Proven, hands-on experience developing SCADA systems for power generation, renewable energy, microgrids or similar critical infrastructure environments
• Strong PLC/SCADA development background – Beckhoff TwinCAT experience highly desirable
• Experience integrating multiple asset types (generators, BESS, renewables) into a single control platform
• Familiarity with industrial protocols such as Modbus TCP/RTU, DNP3, IEC 61850 or OPC UA
• Comfortable working in a high-consequence environment where errors carry real operational impact
• Available to start at short notice for a 6 month contract

Contract Details

• Job Title: Senior SCADA / Controls Engineer
• Contract Length: 6 months, with potential to extend
• Rate: £70-£80 per hour, Outside IR35
• Location: Aberdeen, Bromsgrove, Hull or Sheffield. Your choice.
• Start Date: ASAP

This is a genuinely niche skill set and the client needs someone in place fast. A one stage interview can be quickly arranged.

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Location: Belfast – Hybrid working

Contract Length: 6 months initially, with strong potential to extend

Start Date: ASAP

Technical Project Manager / Technical Program Manager required for a 6 month contract, working for a global electronics business operating in automotive electronic devices and electrification, based in Belfast, within easy reach of both Belfast City and Belfast International Airports.

This is a genuinely technical Project Manager role, overseeing a hardware and embedded software product through its full lifecycle – from concept and requirements, through validation and production readiness, to launch. You will be the key point of contact for the customer, aligning internal hardware and software engineering teams, tracking progress against the plan, and ensuring milestones are hit on a safety-critical, ASPICE-aligned programme.

The Role:

• Owning delivery of a hardware and embedded software product programme, end-to-end
• Running weekly customer-facing meetings, clarifying scope and timing
• Aligning software and hardware engineering teams internally
• Tracking progress, risks and issues against the project plan
• Supporting production readiness activities, including samples and line trials

About You:

• Proven track record as a Technical Project Manager or Technical Program Manager, managing hardware and embedded software product developments, from concept through to production
• Comfortable working to safety-critical / functional safety requirements
• Confident engaging directly with customers and cross-functional engineering teams
• Experience with ASPICE and/or automotive product development is a nice-to-have, not essential
• Experience with Jira and Confluence is useful

Working Pattern: 1-2 days per week onsite in Belfast, or week on / week off

If you are a Technical Project Manager, Technical Program Manager, or Senior Project Manager with experience delivering hardware and embedded software product developments, apply now or get in touch for a confidential discussion.

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Contract length: 3 months initially (potential to extend)

Rate: £45-£53 per hour (circa £350 – £400 per day), Inside IR35

Start Date: ASAP

The Role:

Our client is a large organisation based near Livingston, is looking for an IT Asset Coordinator to lead a major consolidation and audit of IT equipment held across multiple site locations.

This is a hands-on, physical role rather than a technical one – ideal for someone with a background in warehousing, stores management or logistics who is comfortable identifying general IT hardware. Candidates with a military stores/ logistics background are particularly well suited to this role.

You’ll start with a significant backlog of new and legacy IT equipment (laptops, monitors, network switches, printers, cabling, racking) that needs to be consolidated, audited and properly documented – then sorted for reuse, resale or disposal. As equipment arrives from other sites, you’ll repeat the process, working towards a clean, accurate, and repeatable stock system that can be handed over to the internal IT team at the end of the contract.

Key Responsibilities:

• Audit and physically consolidate IT equipment arriving from multiple sites
• Create and maintain an accurate stock record, capturing serial numbers, device type, storage location, PO reference, and intended purpose
• Sort equipment into categories: ready for redeployment, for resale, or for disposal
• Liaise with an appointed recycling/disposal partner to arrange collection of scrapped equipment
• Coordinate with internal logistics/warehouse teams to arrange collection and transport of equipment between sites
• Work with finance colleagues where equipment is being sold on
• Prepare stock for deployment – organising shelving, building pallets and managing physical storage space
• Work alongside two junior technicians responsible for wiping laptops and network equipment
• Establish a clear, documented process that can be handed over to the IT team once the contract concludes

Skills required:

• Experience in a warehousing, stores, or logistics environment is essential
• A general understanding of IT equipment (laptops, monitors, network switches, printers, cabling) — you do not need to be a technical specialist
• Highly organised, methodical, and accurate with record-keeping
• A practical “doer” who is comfortable with physical, on-site work
• Able to work independently, prioritise, and manage a large volume of stock
• Ex-forces candidates with a stores/supply background are strongly encouraged to apply

Additional Information

This is a on-site role based in Livingston, West Lothian. You need to be able to commute to site daily for the duration of the contract.

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KO2 is recruiting a Software Test Engineer (V&V) on behalf of a fast-growing medical device client based in Manchester, currently progressing a market ready device through FDA 510(k) approval. Following a recent increase in testing and documentation requirements, they need an experienced V&V engineer to take full ownership of test activity as the sole test resource on site.

This is a hands-on, standalone role. You’ll be working directly with the device hardware, so onsite presence three days a week is essential.

Key responsibilities

• Develop verification and validation test specifications from the device’s design history file, requirements and specifications
• Break high-level design/test requirements down into detailed sub-tests, test protocols and expected outcomes
• Execute and record verification/validation testing in line with relevant standards and processes
• Feed results back to the development team and support resolution of any non-conformances
• Design software test plans in compliance with IEC 62304 and FDA documentation standards
• Instrument and execute unit, module, integration and regression tests based on software design specifications
• Work closely with Quality and Regulatory colleagues to ensure testing supports the technical file

Essential skills & experience

• Strong experience of V&V activities within an embedded software environment
• Embedded software development background using C/C++, sufficient to understand and define module level tests
• Experience converting requirements into structured test cases and procedures
• Experience working with medical devices running embedded software
• Working knowledge of IEC 62304 and ISO 13485
• Good understanding of the full software engineering lifecycle
• Scripting ability
• Able to work independently and self-manage a standalone testing function

Desirable

• Knowledge of IEC 60601 and/or ISO 14971

Contract details

• 6 month initial contract, with potential to extend
• 3 days per week onsite in Manchester
• Up to £425 per day, Outside IR35

Get in touch with Chris Oddy at KO2 to discuss or apply.

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Are you a Scrum Master who adapts to the team in front of you, rather than reaching for the textbook?

Our client is a global medical device business whose software directly impacts patient outcomes. Their Scotland based development team has recently gone through significant growth – roughly doubling in size, within a wider delivery ecosystem that has grown even further and they need a dedicated, full-time Scrum Master to help this bigger team gel, structure itself, and deliver.

What makes this role different

The hiring managers were clear: they don’t want someone who arrives and announces “you’re doing it wrong.” They want someone who says “show me what you do, and let me work out how I can help.” You’ll be a supporting player who lifts the whole team – not a project leader, and not a technical lead. Project leadership is already in place. This is about process, flow, and helping the team create value.

What you’ll be doing

• Facilitating all Scrum ceremonies across multiple newly formed teams, keeping them productive and timeboxed
• Coaching the team in self-management, cross-functionality, and conflict resolution as they settle into their new structure
• Using Agile metrics (velocity, burn-down) to improve predictability and quality
• Removing impediments, often working with external stakeholders to clear the path
• Ensuring delivery stays compliant within a regulated medical device environment

What they’re looking for

• 3+ years as a full-time Scrum Master or Agile Lead in a software engineering environment
• Proven experience stabilising a recently scaled or growing team – this is the situation you’re walking into
• A coaching-led, adaptive approach: best practice shaped to the team, not imposed on it
• Regulated industry background (medical devices, ISO 13485, IEC 62304 – or similar compliance-driven sectors) is a plus
• Embedded software environment experience is a bonus, not a requirement

The details

• Initial 12 month contract
• Up to £75 per hour, Inside IR35
• Hybrid working, office in the Glasgow area
• Interviews moving quickly – this is the client’s top priority hire

If you’re the Scrum Master who brings the team with you rather than setting off a grenade, apply now or message me directly.

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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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A contract opportunity for an experienced Manufacturing or Process Engineer with strong knowledge of through‑hole PCBA assembly. You’ll support the development, optimisation, and configuration of electronics manufacturing processes, focusing on how boards are built and how equipment is programmed.

What you’ll be doing
• Define assembly sequences for through‑hole PCBAs
• Configure and program semi‑automatic placement equipment
• Support programming of wave soldering machines
• Develop and refine processes for conventional leaded components
• Work closely with production teams to improve efficiency
• Drive continuous improvement across the electronics assembly area

This is an engineering and process definition role, not hands‑on board assembly.

Skills and Experience required:
• Experience in electronics assembly / PCBA manufacturing
• Strong understanding of through‑hole components and processes
• Background with semi‑automatic placement machinery
• Knowledge of wave soldering
• A process‑driven mindset and practical approach to optimisation

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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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