Senior Mechanical Design Engineer
Oxford Instruments plc
Date: 4 weeks ago
City: High Wycombe
Contract type: Full time

Materials Analysis is an Oxford Instruments Business Unit that manages our Electron Microscopy and Mechanical Microscopy products, Atomic Force Microscopes, Raman Microscopes and Benchtop NMR Products. We are part of the wider Oxford Instruments Group that also includes Andor Technology, NanoScience, Plasma Technology and X-Ray Technology. With a sixty-year history, and fourteen Queen’s Awards for Enterprise, our world-class products and technologies are helping our customers to address the greatest challenges of the 21st century.
We are looking for a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer to join our Product Development team.
This role is ideal if…
Wellbeing –
We are based in High Wycombe on the Cressex Business Park and have hybrid working, which includes 3 days in the office and 2 days at home. We have a 37-hour working week and finish on Fridays at 12:30.
Equal opportunities and reasonable adjustments:
Oxford Instruments is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information. Oxford Instruments is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment. Please get in touch if you require any reasonable adjustments within the interview process.
If you would like to learn more about the role, or have any questions before applying please contact [email protected]
We are looking for a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer to join our Product Development team.
This role is ideal if…
- You are a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer whose main purpose is the mechanical design and detailing of high precision new parts, sub-assemblies
- You are proficient at leading the mechanical design of new products, sub-systems, assemblies, and customer solutions.
- You are comfortable with having the authority to work independently without supervision.
Wellbeing –
- Annual leave: 25 days plus bank holidays and the option to purchase up to 12 weeks more
- Employee Assistance Programme; including 24/7 telephone support, access to counselling, financial and debt management and access to trained legal advisors
- Private health insurance, dental insurance and life assurance
- MyDiscounts; save money with a number of leading retailers
- Car salary exchange scheme: sacrifice part of your salary in exchange for a fully serviced, comprehensive insured electric or hybrid vehicle
- TechScheme and CycleScheme: Purchase a bike and/or Tech or home goods from Currys/IKEA and spread the cost over 12 months.
- Pension; all employees are eligible to join the Group Pension Plan administered by AVIVA.
- Share incentive plan: Invest in your future and share in the success of the company by joining the share incentive plan.
- Encouragement and support to achieve professional and or academic qualifications to support your development and growth
- Defined career paths and regular reviews
- Work with marketing to ensure designs meet customer requirements while seeking creative, low-cost mechanical designs.
- Work closely with technologists, systems engineers and other developers to optimise engineering solutions.
- Specify and document designs including, requirement specifications, layouts, detail & assembly drawings, Bills Of Material, etc.
- Work closely with supply chain and suppliers during the specification and procurement of mechanical parts.
- Assist the Manufacturing and Service departments to introduce new products and support with issues on existing products.
- Manage engineering changes using official ECR/ECO/BP procedures in our PLM tool
We are based in High Wycombe on the Cressex Business Park and have hybrid working, which includes 3 days in the office and 2 days at home. We have a 37-hour working week and finish on Fridays at 12:30.
Equal opportunities and reasonable adjustments:
Oxford Instruments is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information. Oxford Instruments is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment. Please get in touch if you require any reasonable adjustments within the interview process.
If you would like to learn more about the role, or have any questions before applying please contact [email protected]
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