Senior Manufacturing Development Engineer

Senior Manufacturing Development Engineer

Location: Oxford, UK
£Competitive + Benefits

Ready to take manufacturing out of the lab and into high-volume production?

This is a hands-on, high-impact role for an engineer who thrives on turning complex builds into production-ready components at scale.

You’ll lead the end-to-end development, validation, and industrialisation of secondary manufacturing processes—owning capability, yield, cost, and scalability. From de powdering and precision EDM to chemical processing and mass finishing, you’ll define what “production-ready” really means.

A major focus of the role is vacuum filling and hermetic sealing of vapour chambers, including dry-out, sealing, and helium leak testing to demanding specifications.

This role is about making processes work—robustly, repeatably, and efficiently. You’ll drive automation and scale-up, eliminate bottlenecks, improve cycle times, and reduce operator dependency...