Senior UX Engineer

Renishaw, a world leader in high end technologies is currently seeking to recruit a Usability Engineer. Working on our MODUS suite of software products, the role exposes the successful candidate to some of our latest cutting-edge technologies.

The role will primarily involve working with software development teams to help improve the usability of the products they produce, while empowering the teams to become more self-sufficient as their experience grows.

This is a unique opportunity to join a growing team where your inputs will be valued. Working with software systems that include hardware is a challenging and rewarding area to apply your usability design expertise.

Responsibilities

• Focus on managing the daily demands of iterative incremental UI & UX design within a production environment
• Work closely with the product owners and technical leads to assist with the definition of user stories and to develop initial user interface and interaction designs
• Develop workflow sketches, low-fidelity mock-ups, storyboards and design alternatives
• Work within, and help to extend, the existing Renishaw usability standards and guidelines

• Expertise or exposure to the fields of Human Factors, Ergonomics or User Centred Design
• Proven ability to design user-centric workflows to complex problems
• Proven presentation / public speaking skills
• Exposure to software, mechanical or electrical engineering
• Proven ability to create storyboards / wireframes / UI prototypes

Desirable requirements

• Successful experience in managing a small team or mentoring others
• Exposure to working with an Agile software development team

Person specification

The successful applicant will have an interest in keeping up to date with interaction design and software / hardware human interface design. They will be self-motivated and driven, capable of managing tasks to completion and to the highest standard. The individual in this role will have effective communication, liaison and client-facing skills, and will be a good team player, able to articulate their views while participating in design debates.

When you join Renishaw, we’re committing to your future career. That’s because we believe in developing our people’s skills and promoting them internally. We also offer a benefits package that’s highly desirable; including a 9% non-contributory pension, discretionary annual bonus, *subsidised onsite restaurants and *coffee shops, free parking, *car sharing scheme and *24 hour fitness centres. ( not available at all sites).

We also want to promote a healthy work-life balance as much as possible, so we have introduced a hybrid working policy which allows for a combination of home and office based working depending on the nature of your role. We also offer a variable working programme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, Life Assurance policy of 12 times annual salary, Cycle to Work scheme, enhanced maternity pay subject to qualifying criteria, Health Cash Plan, the option to join Renishaw Health Trust (Aviva) and an Employee Assistance Programme for employees and family.

At Renishaw we believe that our success is powered by welcoming a workforce of diverse and talented people. Through encouraging an inclusive culture, where all our employees are free to be themselves, we can achieve our core values: Innovation, Inspiration, Integrity, and Involvement.

If you are excited about the role but feel as though you don’t meet all the requirements, we would encourage you still to apply. You might just be the right person for this role or another opportunity at Renishaw.