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  • Graduate
  • Cambridge, UK
  • This position has been filled.

We are offering an amazing opportunity for a motivated and creative graduate to join our team in late summer 2024.

What are we looking for?

We are looking for someone who combines creativity, logical thinking, technical knowledge and attention to detail to solve design challenges across varied development projects. We’d like someone who can use their design, engineering and scientific background to hit the ground running, whilst also being keen to learn, take on feedback, and develop. You will excel at working in a team of like-minded design engineers and will be comfortable engaging with multi-disciplined internal teams, clients, sub-contractors and manufacturing partners.

Your continued development is paramount to us and we will therefore offer tailored guidance and support whilst working on interesting and challenging projects.

What will your responsibilities be?

You will contribute, as part of a team, to solving design problems and engineering challenges across all stages of the product development process. This means working from client instructions and defined requirements to analyse problems, theoretically model and simulate, develop concepts, refine, evaluate, prototype, test, design in detail, design for assembly, and transfer to manufacture.

You will represent the company through external meetings with clients and suppliers, as well as being an effective member of internal project teams.

Design work and deliverables will be undertaken in accordance with industry standards and working within an ISO 13485 quality management system.

Experience & Personal Attributes:
We are looking for someone who:
  • Is on track to achieve a minimum of a 2:1 in a relevant honours degree.
  • Takes a logical approach to tackling engineering problems, along with a keen attention to detail.
  • Has a flair for creating and developing innovative, yet practical solutions to challenging problems, often with stringent requirements.
  • Is able to apply theoretical and practical analytical engineering skills to real-world problems such as heat transfer, statics, dynamics, FEA and CFD.
  • Has an understanding of the skills, structured approach and tools used in problem analysis, concept development, detail design, evaluation and manufacture of, medical devices, lab instrumentation, food and drink industry processing and manufacturing equipment, industrial products and consumer products.
  • Has strong CAD skills and experience modelling parts, assemblies and producing drawings, ideally in Solidworks.
  • Has knowledge of different prototyping and manufacturing processes and their suitability at different stages of the product development process and for different applications.
  • Has knowledge of different materials that can be used in product development.
  • Is able to effectively communicate ideas and concepts through personal interactions, presentations, sketches, and written reports.
  • Can manage their time effectively and efficiently against project time and budget constraints.
  • Has an open attitude to working in a peer-review culture of project and design work.
  • Ideally has practical workshop skills and evidence of assembling electromechanical prototypes.
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Benefits:
In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a range of benefits for all of our employees, including:
  • Competitive salary that’s (dependent on experience)
  • 25 days’ annual leave with the opportunity to buy additional holiday
  • A discretionary profit bonus at the end of our financial year, a portion of which will be tax-free through the EOT model*
  • Generous matched contribution company pension scheme
  • Private healthcare benefit scheme
  • Life Assurance
  • Investment in professional development and learning
  • A flexible working policy
  • Cycle-to-work scheme
  • Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme

*Being part of an Employee Ownership Trust has various benefits to our team, which we would be happy to share during the interview process.

Application Process

Please visit our Careers Section to find out more about eg technology, career development of our staff, the benefits we offer and testimonies of why it is great working with us.

You can submit your application HERE.

We welcome international applications, but we are unable to offer sponsorship for work permits, so you will need to have the full right to live and work in the UK. Unfortunately, your application will be automatically rejected if you do not have these rights.

If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us on careers@egtechnology.co.uk.

Please note, all information provided will be stored for a minimum of six months unless permission is granted to hold details for longer.  At no time, will any information be shared with a third party.  For more information, please email careers@egtechnology.co.uk or see our Privacy Policy (https://www.egtechnology.co.uk/privacy).

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About eg technology

eg technology is an integrated product design, engineering and development consultancy, based in Cambridge. Our engineers are world-class and have the experience and passion to create exceptional products for our clients which not only make it to market but make a genuine impact once there. We have extensive expertise in product design across MedTech, Lab & BioTech, VetCare, CleanTech, AgriTech, Consumer and Food & Drink sectors.

We are a team of 50 people focused on developing innovative, beneficial, and exciting products for our clients, through electronics, software and mechanical engineering, industrial design, human factors, technical due diligence & project management.

We value teamwork and collaboration. We are client-centric, open, honest and share our ideas, experience and knowledge across projects. This creates a supportive, enjoyable and relaxed environment for our valued team, which we are currently looking to grow.

Does this sound like the place for you? If so, please send us your application.