Renishaw
Departmental Administrator
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Job Description
Salary: up to £29,600 depending on experience
Working Arrangement: Hybrid working 4 days / week onsite
Renishaw plc is a global engineering and scientific technology company, recognised for innovation in high-precision metrology, manufacturing systems, additive manufacturing and healthcare technologies. With over 5,000 employees worldwide, Renishaw offers exciting opportunities to contribute to cutting-edge technologies.
Due to continued growth within our Spectroscopy Products Division, we are seeking a Project and Technical Design Administrator to play a key role in supporting engineering design and change management activities. Working closely with designers, engineers, project leads and operational teams, you will help coordinate design changes, maintain project documentation and support the successful delivery of products and projects.
This varied role offers exposure to project coordination, technical administration and cross-functional collaboration, making it ideal for someone who enjoys organisation, problem-solving and making a tangible impact within an engineering environment.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate and facilitate design changes across engineering teams, using Renishaw’s engineering change management system to efficiently drive design change.
- Provide support to the engineering leads with preparing and presenting information required for review meetings.
- Work alongside Purchasing, Material Control and Specials teams to support these areas with their function and data requests.
- Collaborate with designers, engineers, and project managers to define the scope of design changes, identifying all affected parts, divisions and stakeholders.
- Ensure that all design changes are accurately documented and communicated to relevant stakeholders.
- Facilitate effective communication between departments to communicate design change status and ensure seamless implementation of design changes.
- Actively drive design changes to completion by assisting users with open tasks to ensure change is being actioned efficiently.
- Identify and mitigate any potential risks associated with design changes.
- Drive simple design changes through Teamcenter and NX.
- Collate lessons learnt, providing suggestions to improve processes and performance within the division.
- Utilise skills to support purchased part inspections, concession administration, material management, compliance data, VRMAs.
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Key Requirements
- Keen eye for attention to detail and accuracy.
- Adept in organisation and multitasking to track multiple open design changes across different projects.
- Be a confident and comfortable communicator.
- Ability to work effectively under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
- Educated to A level (or equivalent) standard, supported by GCSEs (or equivalent) in Maths, English, and Science.
Desirable Requirements
- Prior knowledge and understanding of engineering change management processes and assembly bill of materials structure.
- Exposure to Teamcenter and NX software packages.
- Understanding of project management.
Person Specification
As a Project and Technical Design Administrator, you’ll enjoy being involved in the detail that helps engineering projects succeed. You will support design teams in implementing changes, help colleagues navigate processes efficiently, and take ownership of varied technical and project-related activities.
You’ll be a confident communicator who enjoys working with people across different teams, functions and manufacturing sites around the world, using your organisational skills to bring clarity and momentum to design change activity.
A flexible and proactive attitude will help you build broad experience across design support, project coordination and technical administration, while contributing to continuous improvement within the division.
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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.
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.
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.
Employment Type: Permanent
Time Type: Full time
Requisition Number: R9759
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