Would you like to be part of building a brand new industry?

We are looking for a talented Manufacturing Engineer to (ME) to help drive the R&D efforts of our rapidly growing technology business.

Dogtooth is a Cambridge-based technology start-up specialising in autonomous robotics for fruit harvesting. Founded nine years ago, we have successfully developed, manufactured, and deployed five generations of strawberry picking robot on farms in Europe and Australia. Our team combines considerable expertise in manufacturing, mechanical, electronics and software engineering, and machine learning computer vision.

Initially this will be a short term (3 month) role with the potential to extend.

The role

As our ME, you will:

• Oversee our internal and supplier manufacturing processes to ensure we produce high quality robots and ancillary equipment.
• Champion lean, standardised work principles emphasising safety, quality, and productivity.
• Develop and operate processes for the assembly and testing of subsystems and fully working robots and other ancillary equipment.
• Collaborate with R&D to influence the simplicity of robot manufacture and translate designs into well designed work that achieves its design intent.
• Work with field operations, R&D, suppliers, and outsource partners to resolve quality problems and improve their processes to meet quality and delivery requirements.

Duties and Responsibilities

Immediate:

• Support and participate in our manufacturing activities to understand the robot and its testing
• Create Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for the manufacture of existing and new released designs
• Ensure this is the adopted current best way of performing our work

Developing into:

• Implementation of Standardised Work based on standard work sequences and cycle times
• Continuously improve our processes
• Working with Purchasing on the implementation of new designs and procurement of new parts
• Working with the manufacturing director and other stakeholders to create efficient processes to support direct manufacturing. E.g. calibration and measurement, Production Parts Approval Processes (PPAP) etc.

Desirable characteristics

• Attention to detail, and able to identify which details need to be added
• Disciplined, thrives in cadenced environments, has a sense of urgency
• Sets and works towards sensible milestones
• Likes simple solutions
• Follows the scientific method and is data driven in problem solving
• Able to draw correct balance between following process and knowing when to intervene/escalate problems
• Personable, emotionally intelligent, confident talking to suppliers, design authorities

If you would like to apply, please send your cover letter and C.V. to recruitment@dogtoothtech.com addressed to Sarah.

No recruitment agencies please.