Optical Engineer

Salary: £48,000 – £72,000 per year

Chartsign is an Electrical technical publications company who are committed to providing a Design Consultancy and Technical Recruitment service to a variety of industries. We look to provide goods and services that are fit for purpose and completely meet our customers’ requirements. 

Our client is looking for a candidate that will assist with planning, coordinating, and implementing key project developments from concept through to production handover. This position involves all aspects of optic design.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain ISO9001 system documentation for design engineering activities.

• Liaison with customers to develop designs in a timely manner.

• Deliver solutions to project timing constraints.

• Support development of engineered solutions to specific market and customer requirements

• Responsible for design and development of lighting systems, including system optimisation.

• Develop tools for optic system design automation.

• Provide guidance and support for optical system design to Optic Design Engineers withing the Team.

• Check that proposed designs can be tooled and manufactured.

• Ensure compliance with performance requirements (National, international, and customer standards).

• Provide cross department assistance and support.

• Co-ordinate prototype production, laboratory measurement and pre-production runs.

• Generate clear and detailed documentation.

• Keep up to date with industry best practices and technology.

• Support project engineering in customer & supplier meetings both on and off site.

• Determine materials requirements on a design specific basis.

• Actively engage with suppliers to confirm technology requirements for all design tasks.

• Support the development of DFMEA documentation.

• Problem solving techniques to develop and quantify optical design.

• Work to company maturation planning.

• Actively own and progress all design activities to completion.

• Implement & develop creative solutions to engineering problems.

Experience Required:

• HND or Degree in an Engineering discipline.

• Catia V5.

• SPEOS (preferred), LucidShape, ASAP, or LightTools

• Experience designing non-imaging optical systems.

• Competent user of MS office packages.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills.

• A passion for technology & product development.

• Innovative, hardworking, and ambitious.

• A thorough attention to detail.

• Willingness to travel across the UK and abroad.

• Experience working closely with internal and external customers.

• Be self-motivated.

• Must be eligible to work in the United Kingdom.

• Full UK Driving license.