Halma plc
Development Engineer
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Furthermore, here at FFE we value our employees giving them the freedom to be creative and innovative. Having a great team spirit and people that are proud to work for a company that saves lives, our teams see the direct impact of their efforts in the daily operations.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Carry out technical research, practical investigations, prototype testing, and engineering analysis under the direction of senior engineers or technical leads.
- Evaluate and benchmark competitor products, alternative technologies, and relevant engineering approaches.
- Analyze test results and technical data, drawing clear conclusions and making evidence-based recommendations.
- Undertake, bench testing, fault finding and root-cause analysis of unusual product or system behavior.
- Produce and communicate results to colleagues and stakeholders as clear technical records, investigation summaries and reports to support engineering decisions.
- Work collaboratively with colleagues across the development and production engineering teams to deliver practical, robust engineering solutions.
- Demonstrate ownership, enthusiasm, and initiative when delivering assigned technical work.
- Maintain awareness of relevant technologies, product developments, and engineering best practice.
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Skills and Experience:
Essential
- Practical experience in an engineering, product development, R&D, manufacturing, or technical investigation environment.
- Familiarity with electronics, including schematics, datasheets, circuit layout, prototyping and bench testing.
- Experience using Python or Matlab for engineering analysis, data processing or test automation.
- Comfortable working hands-on with products, prototypes, test equipment, and experimental setups.
- Proactive problem-solving attitude with strong ownership and accountability.
- Clear communication and collaborative working style.
Desirable
- Knowledge of optics, sensing technologies, or related product areas.
- Experience supporting products through development, verification, production or sustaining phases.
- Experience using collaborative tools such as JIRA, Confluence or similar.
- Exposure to formal problem-solving techniques such as the 8D process.
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Other requirements
- Degree qualified in Electronics Engineering, Physics, Software Engineering or a related discipline.
- Applicants must be resident and entitled to work in the UK.
Your work directly influences customer safety and the continued trust placed in FFE technology worldwide, therefore we want our Development Engineer to model behaviours based on our company values:
Customer Focus | Collaboration | Curiosity | Ownership.
FFE Benefits
- 25 days Annual Leave
- Company bonus Scheme
- Halma Pension plan
- BUPA health insurance
- Simply Health cash plan
- EAP
If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!
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