Title:

Instruments Optical Engineer

Location:

Worcestershire

Salary:

GBP 30,000 to GBP 35,000 per year

Description:

Our Clients combination of high quality instrumentation products, experienced applications and engineering teams withinnovative means for providing education and support to our global customer base, enables focus on providingcomprehensive and proven solutions to customers.Employing over 300 people worldwide from its award-winning new headquarters in Worcestershire, the company continues togrow rapidly through its focus on New Product Development.We are continuously expanding our portfolio of technologies and products to give us access to new markets, which areexpected to fuel further business growth.Outline of hire opportunity. We are seeking to recruit an Optical Engineer to provide detailed optics expertise intoMalverns range of leading particle size measurement instrumentation.The successful candidate will provide innovative solutions to the specific requirements of various instrumentationprojects, working in a team that designs integrated optical/mechanical/electronic systems.This includes analysis of optical designs; analysis of optical system tolerances and error budgets; integration andtesting of optical instrumentation; and maintaining awareness of developments in optical/optoelectronic techniques anddevices.The attributes and skills we are looking for are summarized below. This is meant to be an indication and we are willingto see candidates with similar attributes and skills.Attributes required Entrepreneurial, dynamic, used to working in a fast-moving environment Hands-on, experimental approach Innovative to be able to create and develop new ideas Self-motivated to be able to drive designs through from idea to completion with minimal supervision Willing to learn - project management potential Commercially aware to understand the need for short time to market Proven track record in working effectively to project timescales Used to working effectively in a multidisciplinary team Balance requirements for value engineering, assembly, test, service, time to market Good communicationSkillsEssential Advanced degree in physics/optics or a related field Expertise in optics system/component design Experience of precision opto-mechanical design In depth design with lasers, lens, fibre systems Close co-operation with suppliers Analysis using CAE (eg. Zemax) Tolerance analysis over environmental limits Manufacturing assy/test requirements Hands-on approach Design for robustnessBeneficial Mechanical design Electro-optics experience Microscopy experienceProfile A physicist (MSc, PhD) with 4+ years relevant industry experience, Must have a strong experimental aptitudeLocation WorcestershireSalary - GBP 30,000 - GBP 35,000 The F10 Group offers the services of an Employment Agency for permanent recruitment and the services of an EmploymentBusiness for contract recruitment.