Electro/Mechanical Technician

Location: Cowley, Oxford (OX4 2GQ) with travel to other UK sites
Contract: Permanent, full time
Salary: £45,000 per annum, flex allowance, 22 days rising holiday plus bank holidays, pension, life assurance, employee assistance programme, wellbeing support, and flexible benefits scheme

About the Job

You’ll have an important part to play in the Advanced Supply Chain Institute (ASCI), Unipart’s multi-purpose learning and collaboration space, where tomorrow’s supply chains are reimagined, enhanced and transformed.

Here at Unipart we don’t just have a way of working, we have The Unipart Way. It allows everyone in our team to pursue their own personal and professional goals to a world class level, through Unipart's ‘From Gate to Great’ training and development program.

As an Electro/Mechanical Technician you will support the Advanced Supply Chain Institute (ASCI) to deliver digital, automation and innovation projects internally within the ASCI and the wider Unipart Logistics (UL), sites. You’ll be involved in providing technical support to demonstration set up, customer challenges and student projects that require the knowledge and skills around hardware and software aspect.

As part of your key responsibilities you’ll:

• Provide technical assistance to the ASCI, it’s customers and Unipart Logistics with knowledge, and product/project delivery
• Proactively work to deliver the strategic plan for the ASCI in line with business needs
• Support the Automation, Digital & Innovation function to enable delivery of their objectives
• Ensure all stakeholders, internal and external are engaged and working as a team to deliver projects aligned to Unipart Logistics business objectives
• Solve problems at your level, overcoming barriers and roadblocks whilst progressing agreed projects
• Continually develop your own knowledge of emerging technology, particularly I4.0 technologies and the next megatrends while aligning them to solutions that could benefit Unipart Logistics and its customers
• Develop key relationships that drive value across internal functions – IT, Procurement, Operations as key stakeholders
• Focus on standardisation, developing solutions and identifying technology that could be scalable
• Deliver and support demonstrations and tours to internal and external visitors

About You:

• We’d love you to have the following skills and experience, but please apply if you think you’d be able to perform well in this role!
• Develop own ideas into business proposals/solutions to real problems
• Ability to work collaboratively, engaging and building strong work relationships across the business
• Communicate effectively with colleagues and stakeholders
• Agility to work on a variety of projects at one time
• Understanding of and adherence to health and safety guidelines
• Knowledge of electrical systems, mechanical systems, and automation technologies.
• Experience in project management using Agile methodology (DevOps, Git version control).
• Experience in working with and building PCB designs (Printed Circuit Board).
• Knowledge in Computer-Aided Design applications such as Solid work, Sketch up.
• Ability to use Engineering programming languages such as frameworks C, C++ Java, or Python and client-server applications with Java, JavaScript, SQL Servers.
• Familiarity with Arduino, ESP32 and Raspberry Pi, with the ability to program as required.
• Understanding of sensor builds including the use of raspberry Pi controllers, experience with using low bandwidth connectivity (Blues wireless) also advantageous.
• Experience in working with Google suite in particular “no code” applications creating google sites.
• Understanding of Android OS, Windows OS, and ability to load products onto respective operating systems, also advantage but not necessity Linux OS experience.
• Understanding of both cloud and hard server storage creating API links to host products across both.
• Use of BI dashboards and databases to host and display data effectively

Our recruitment and selection process has been developed to ensure that it is consistent, fair and provides equality of opportunity - all selection decisions are based solely on technical and behavioural competencies. We do not discriminate on the grounds of race, colour, or nationality, ethnic or national origins, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, religion or belief, age or any other current or future protected characteristic as defined in the current Equality Act of England and Wales. As an organisation we also promote an environment which encourages diversity of characteristics and thought, where you feel included, safe and confident to be the best version of yourself and do your best work every day.

You may have experience in the following: Automation Specialist, Digital Innovation Engineer, Hardware and Software Technician, Supply Chain Technology Specialist, Advanced Technology Engineer, Automation Technician, Innovation Project Coordinator, Technical Solutions Developer, Hardware Integration Engineer, Industrial Automation Technician, etc.

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