R&D Engineer

Reporting to the Head of Technology Innovation you will work on various innovation projects and be responsible for ensuring delivery against set milestones.,

• Nurture high level, professional relationships with external suppliers and vendors.


• Focus on servicing mid and long term material and process developments.


• Triage bugs, assign priorities, and collaborate with engineering stakeholders to roll out production level improvements.


• Mechanical and electrical design and testing of systems.


• Devising and completing experiments contributing to technology improvement.


• Horizon scanning suitable technology to feed into mid and long term development strategy.


• Assessing and investigating feasibility of new technologies and ideas.


• Communicate results, conclusions and recommendations to internal and external audiences.


• Participate in general knowledge/technology transfer within the team which are typically in the form of team meetings or informal updates.


• Work with more experienced team members, participate in team meetings with product owners/business partners to learn the process of defining requirements.
  
  Degree or equivalent experience in engineering preferably with exposure to both electrical and mechanical disciplines.


• Relevant experience within a research and development role.


• Ability to interact with a wide variety of stakeholders to understand requirements and communicate progress.


• Good attitude and strong written and verbal communication skills.


• Excellent team-working skills and experience working within multi-disciplinary teams.


• Experience producing design documentation ideally using CAD software packages.


• Knowledge of engineering processes for configuration management, design and maintenance.


• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.


• Excellent attention to detail.


• Good time management.
  
  HiDef Aerial Surveying Limited (HiDef) is known for its market leading innovative digital aerial surveys which have been deployed in ten countries. We are expanding across all of our services, combining technical and scientific excellence, and its crucial to the company that we continue to lead in the innovation of new products, based upon credible science, and deliver all of our services in a consistent and efficient manner. We work on a range of projects from our digital aerial surveys, ornithological and marine mammal statistical analysis and research and development projects in fields such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, often with our sister company BioConsult SH in Germany, Biotope in France, other partners and domain experts.


Our Vision: to provide trusted, high quality environmental data, analysis, and consultancy to support decision-making for the renewables industry and conservation.

Our Mission: to be a leading marine environmental consultancy for the global offshore renewables industry.

Our Values: our shared values - Innovative, Supportive, and Honest, sit at the heart of our company culture and impact everything we do.

Quality lies at the heart of HiDef's services and the company is looking to recruit an R&D Engineer to join our busy Technology Innovation team. This position offers significant opportunities for the right person who will be enthusiastic, methodical, diligent, and an excellent team player with effective communication skills.


• Salary, starting from £31,628.


• Competitive, discretionary profit share scheme.


• Full-time, permanent position.


• 37.5 hours per week, 08:30-17:00, Monday to Friday.


• 33 days annual leave, inc Bank Holidays.


• 4% company pension contribution.


• Private medical and dental care scheme.


• Medicash scheme.


• Group Life Assurance.


• Company sick pay allowance.


• Salary sacrifice scheme including Pension Salary Exchange, Cycle to Work scheme, and help towards the purchase of ultra-low emission vehicles.