Lead Engineer (ASG) (106815-0123)

24-month fixed-term contract, 36.5 hours per week.

The role is to lead the development, test and delivery of digital manufacturing solutions for direct contract research projects in partnership with major industry partners. The Lead Software Engineer (LSE) is responsible for managing a team of software developers, for planning and coordinating their development tasks, and for reporting to the ASG lead team.

The LSE incarnate the expertise of the Automation Systems Group in developing software solutions specifically aligned to the manufacturing industry requirements. As such, the LSE responsibility is to lead the software development for commercial projects, to collaborate with other engineering teams (control, process, electrical systems engineering teams), and to directly contribute to design choices made by the ASG during the implementation of solutions for a specific project and/or customer.

The LSE will lead part of the ASG’s software development activities, including but not limited to: Digital Twin, AR/VR applications, desktop and web-based front ends, web/cloud-based services implementation, deployment and maintenance, data bases and data management systems implementation, data analytics and machine learning application development.

The LSE will contribute to the ASG academic and administrative activities, to academic publication, development of training and teaching material, to the dissemination of projects’ outputs, to the engagement with industrial and academic partners within and outside WMG/UoW, and will support procurement, purchasing and recruitment procedures.

This is an exciting opportunity for you to develop your own professional profile and work as part of a successful team, contributing to the development of its teaching and learning activities. In return we will provide a great range of benefits which include an attractive pension scheme, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays and Christmas closure, some fantastic savings on a wide range of products and services, and excellent learning and development opportunities.

At WMG we are committed to supporting staff to achieve their potential. We currently hold the Athena SWAN Sliver Award and the University of Warwick holds an Institutional Silver Award: a national initiative that recognises the advancement of gender equality, representation, progression and success for all in academia. We are supportive of staff with caring responsibilities including a generous maternity/paternity/adoption/parental leave policy, and onsite childcare facilities. We will consider applications for employment on a part-time or other flexible working basis, even where a position is advertised as full-time, unless there are operational or other objective reasons why it is not possible to do so.

Interview Date: TBC.

Full details of the duties and selection criteria for this role can be found in the vacancy advert on the University of Warwick's jobs pages. You will be routed to this when you click on the Apply button.

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