Renishaw
Applications Manager
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Applications Manager – Special Projects Team
Location: Wotton under Edge
Salary: up to £80,000 depending on experience
The Special Projects team at Renishaw is a multi-disciplinary team supporting high value customers in the consumer electronics manufacturing industry by developing and optimising processes that leverage Renishaw’s industrial metrology products. The main functions of the team include:
- Delivery of high value, high complexity customer process control and final QA solutions, including solving non-standard measurement challenges (e.g. cosmetic parts, thin walls, glass, and complex assemblies).
- Support for consumer electronics focused subsidiary teams, ensuring solutions can be scaled, transferred, and reused globally across multiple customer manufacturing sites.
- Process and product development, including feeding customer requirements into future product development.
This is an exciting opportunity for an Applications Manager to shape the future direction of the Special Projects team. In this highly visible and varied role, the successful candidate will lead a team of Applications and Development engineers, oversee key programmes and remain closely involved as a technical expert.
Responsibilities
- Keep up to date with emerging manufacturing trends and growth areas in technology and consumer electronics to identify new applications for Renishaw’s industrial metrology products.
- Work with customers to understand inspection challenges and drive development, testing and implementation of customised measurement and process control solutions using Renishaw CMM and gauging products.
- Coordinate with subsidiary teams across the US, UK and APAC to allocate projects to the most suitable region based on customer needs, skills, capacity and cost.
- Use customer requirements and feedback to influence the development of new hardware and software products.
- Ensure compliance with strict customer and project-specific confidentiality requirements.
Key Requirements
- Management and/or programme management experience, with the ability to lead a multi-disciplinary engineering team delivering high value, technically complex customer projects.
- Customer facing experience, including confidence to engage directly with key customers.
- Expert understanding of measurement principles, with the ability to apply them to non-standard measurement challenges involving complex materials, assemblies and manufacturing environments.
- Excellent problem-solving skills with a proactive approach to customer challenges.
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to convey complex technical information to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Familiarity with Renishaw’s CMM and gauging products (both software and hardware), including how they are applied.
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Desirable Requirements
- Knowledge of Renishaw’s machine tool probing and tool setting products lines.
- Good understanding of manufacturing principles, particularly in high-volume production environments.
- Experience operating in the APAC region, including working with overseas subsidiaries.
- Knowledge of 2D/3D machine vision and other non-contact inspection technologies.
The successful candidate will be required to travel, both domestically and internationally, to customer and subsidiary sites on occasion.
Benefits
When you join Renishaw, we're committing to your future career. That's because we believe in developing our people's skills and promoting them internally. We also offer a benefits package that's highly desirable; including a 9% non-contributory pension, discretionary annual bonus, *subsidised onsite restaurants and *coffee shops, free parking, *car sharing scheme and *24 hour fitness centres. (not available at all sites). We also want to promote a healthy work-life balance as much as possible, so we have introduced a hybrid working policy which allows for a combination of home and office based working depending on the nature of your role. We also offer a variable working programme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, Life Assurance policy of 12 times annual salary, Cycle to Work scheme, enhanced maternity pay subject to qualifying criteria, Health Cash Plan, the option to join BUPA Renishaw Health Trust and an Employee Assistance Programme for employees and family.
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At Renishaw we believe that our success is powered by welcoming a workforce of diverse and talented people. Through encouraging an inclusive culture, where all our employees are free to be themselves, we can achieve our core values: Innovation, Inspiration, Integrity, and Involvement.
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If you are excited about the role but feel as though you don’t meet all the requirements, we would encourage you still to apply. You might just be the right person for this role or another opportunity at Renishaw. We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments to make interviews and jobs more accessible. Should you have any difficulty during the recruitment process, or require any reasonable adjustments please contact the recruitment team on 01453 490384 or recruitment@renishaw.com.
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Employment Type: Permanent
Time Type: Full time
Requisition Number: R9644
Applications Manager (Open)
Renishaw is a FTSE 250 global engineering and scientific technology company, with core skills in measurement, motion control, additive manufacturing, healthcare, spectroscopy and manufacturing. We supply products and services that push the boundaries of what is possible in applications as diverse as jet engine and wind turbine manufacture, through to dentistry and brain surgery.
We are also a world leader in the field of metal additive manufacturing (also referred to as 3D printing), where we design and make industrial machines that ‘print' parts from metal powder. We currently have 77 offices in 36 countries, with around 5,200 employees worldwide. Over 3,000 people are employed within the UK where we carry out the majority of our research and development, and manufacturing.
With a global presence in a broad range of sectors, we aim to ensure that our workforce reflects the diverse global communities we serve. Every year we welcome a wide range of new employees, from apprentices to experienced professionals.
By joining Renishaw you will be making a difference to the world in which we live, in a global company that encourages innovation and personal achievement. Our people help us to pursue this purpose so that we can continue to be a world leader in precision technology and deliver on our vision to innovate and transform capabilities in manufacturing, science and healthcare through unparalleled levels of precision, productivity and practicality.
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