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Graduate Electronics Consultant

Location:
Harwell, Didcot
Location Type:
In-Office
Type:
Full-Time (12 Months Fixed Term)
Salary:
£30,000
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About the role

To play a key role in the delivery of electronics projects at OPD, applying technical and practical hardware skills, and contributing to design, development, and testing.

About you

We’re looking for a talented graduate to join our growing Electronics team, working in a fast-paced consultancy environment on projects across a variety of sectors. Working collaboratively and building strong relationship with colleagues and clients is essential in this role, but it’s also important that you can work independently and autonomously too. Successful graduates will be offered a permanent Junior Consultant role on completion of an initial 12-month contract.

Role Responsibilities

  • Assist with the hands-on assembly, development and testing of electronic rigs and prototypes
  • Support testing, fault-finding and debugging activities
  • Delivery and development of electronics and embedded software components
  • Delivering electronics project work within scope, on time and on budget
  • Collaborate with Design and Engineering team colleagues to help develop innovative and effective solutions
  • Ability to work autonomously and independently when required
  • Communicating with clients clearly and confidently
  • Work with OPD’s design processes and procedures [ISO 9001 / ISO 13485]

Role Requirements

  • Degree in Electronics or Electrical Engineering or similar
  • Relevant work experience gained as industry experience on your course / summer work placement / gap year
  • Strong organisational skills with a keen eye for detail and accuracy
  • Creative problem-solving ability
  • Confidence in the workshop/lab
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build strong relationships with clients and colleagues

Working at OPD

At Oxford Product Design (OPD) we’re on a mission to make things better. Better for the products we design, the clients we work with, our people working here, our planet, and everyone we connect with along the way.

Our exceptional team of professional problem solvers work with both start-ups on ground-breaking new ideas, as well as some of the world’s leading brands on category-defining products that improve how we humans live and work.

As innovators we are curious, experimental, creative and passionate. But our pragmatic, precise approach and highly technical expertise mean that manufacturability and risk management are at the core of everything we do.

We are based in a beautiful historic barn in Harwell, Oxfordshire. There is plenty of on-site parking and the studio is well connected by bus and rail links.

Company benefits

  • 01
    Employee benefit schemes available
    • Employee Assistance Programme
    • Pension scheme
    • Sabbatical scheme
    • ECV car scheme
    • Season ticket loan
  • 02
    Private healthcare
  • 03
    Paid leave for those extra special days
    • Your birthday
    • Your wedding day
    • The day you’re moving house
    • Your child's first day at school
  • 04
    Cycle to work scheme
  • 05
    Holiday options

    We provide purchase and buy back options for your annual leave.

  • 06
    Ten days training per year

    With a training budget of up to 5% of your annual salary.

  • 07
    Generous holiday allowance

    You’ll have 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays).

How to apply

Send a copy of your CV, cover letter and portfolio letting us know why you’re a good fit for the role to jobs@opd.uk.com

Direct applicants only please, strictly no recruitment agencies.

Location:
Harwell, Didcot
Location Type:
In-Office
Type:
Full-Time (12 Months Fixed Term)
Salary:
£30,000
apply now