Author: Candy McGrevy

Overview of Role 

We are a small but rapidly expanding technology business developing intelligent fruit picking robots. We are looking for a new Office Manager as our current Office Manager has been promoted into a new role within the company.  

As the Office Manager, you will be the heartbeat of the office, ensuring seamless daily operations, coordinating essential office functions, and providing a welcoming working  environment that fosters focus and productivity. This is a role for someone who thrives in a dynamic work environment — managing essential routine tasks while remaining flexible enough to take on exciting new projects as they arise.

If you’re a proactive problem-solver who focuses on getting things done with energy and enthusiasm, eager to support and contribute to a collaborative team, this role is for you. An exciting aspect of this role is that it can grow with the individual, allowing them to implement new ideas and take initiative in areas that match their interests i.e. in finance, HR, marketing, sales.

This is a part-time role: 30 hours, Monday to Friday

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Oversee the smooth day-to-day operation of the office, including welcoming visitors, answering the telephone, and processing mail
• Manage office upkeep and maintenance, including overseeing service contracts, implementing improvements, and managing suppliers and vendors
• Purchase office supplies, food, and equipment to ensure a safe, efficient, and healthy work environment that supports staff well-being
• Provide administrative support to the business, such as scheduling meetings, booking travel and accommodation, logistics, managing timesheets, assisting finance and purchasing, and issuing NDAs 
• Conduct fire evacuation drills and regularly test fire alarms, ensuring compliance with safety regulations and staff preparedness
• Organise company social events and help celebrate special occasions 
• Develop and implement office policies and procedures to guide the operation of the office
• Assist with HR tasks, including recruitment, onboarding of new hires, and employee integration
• Run our work experience and intern programs, ensuring proper coordination and support while they are with us 

Desirable Characteristics

• Minimum 2 years experience in an organisational role 
• Confident, independent and reliable.
• Proactive with a hands-on mentality.
• Positive mindset. 
• A friendly personality, always willing to go the extra mile for others.
• Excellent Attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Adaptable to evolving priorities.
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Windows, Office, Google.
• An effective multi-tasker.
• Excellent organisational skills.

What We Offer:

• A varied range of tasks in a company with a relaxed team atmosphere and open communication
• The opportunity to work independently and shape your area of work according to your strengths
• We foster a supportive, family-conscious environment, allowing you to balance professional responsibilities with your family’s needs, including flexible hours for school runs and other commitments

Benefits:

• Company pension 
• 25 days holiday pro rata

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

No recruitment agencies please

Overview

Would you like to be part of building a brand new industry?
We are looking for a talented Lead Manufacturing Technician to help drive the
Manufacturing scale-up of our rapidly growing technology business.
Dogtooth is a Cambridge-based technology start-up specialising in autonomous
robotics for fruit harvesting. Founded ten years ago, we have successfully developed,
manufactured, and deployed five generations of strawberry picking robots on farms in
Europe and Australia. Our team combines considerable expertise in manufacturing,
mechanical, electronics, and software engineering, and machine learning computer
vision.

Overview of Role

Working as a team lead, you will contribute to equipment build and test, and the repair, refurbishment and upgrade of existing fleet equipment while assisting with the day-to-day coordination and leadership of the technician team to ensure work is completed safely, efficiently, and to the required standard.  

In order to do this, you will need to ensure that 

• Safety and 5S standards are adhered to and improved where needed
• Build instructions are followed and cross-trained 
• Production plans are delivered
• Continuous improvement opportunities are acted upon appropriately

Duties and Responsibilities

• Provides day-to-day supervision of the technician team.
• Creates and updates process documentation to provide continuous manufacturing improvement.
• Is responsible for daily metrics, such as safety and “5S”.
• Supports the creation and continuous improvement of methods and documentation for the manufacture of new and existing products. 
• Supports technicians through technical support during build, ensuring they have what they need to continue their work.
• Supports our operations sites through diagnosis and repair.
• Supports the production engineer in identifying and fixing cycle time wastes in our processes.
• Upholds and maintains used processes to ensure traceability and accurate efficiency metrics.
• Holds technicians accountable for meeting agreed standards and completing assigned work.
• Escalates formal disciplinary matters appropriately and in accordance with company policy.
• Works with the production engineer to plan and develop our technician skills matrix.

Qualifications / Experience

• Several years experience working as a technician within a manufacturing environment.
• Team leadership experience.
• Able to assemble, modify, fault-find, and repair electromechanical systems.
• Confident reading mechanical drawings, electrical schematics, and assembly instructions.
• Able to use common workshop/engineering equipment safely and effectively.
• Able to diagnose faults systematically rather than relying on trial and error.
• Understands basic principles of sensors, motors, actuators, wiring, connectors and mechanical assemblies.
• Post-18 study in an engineering / science subject – or an ambition to do so!
• Full clean driving licence.
• Must be eligible to work in the UK.
• Computer literate.

Desirable Characteristics

• Aptitude for practical mechanical and electrical work.
• Disciplined, with a strong sense of urgency.
• Takes initiative when work is completed to find more work.
• Reliable.
• Prioritises in alignment with company goals.
• Able to recognise when something is outside their competence and escalate appropriately.
• Attention to detail.
• Draws the correct balance between following process and knowing when to stop and ask.
• Data-driven and curious in problem solving.
• Sensitive to the needs of a growing business has to be flexible and agile.
• Likes simple solutions.
• Happy to work wherever Gemba is.  This may include customer sites.
• Personable, emotionally intelligent, and creates a positive working environment.

Key Relationships

• Reports to the Production Engineer.
• Works with other Lead Technicians to deliver key business metrics.
• Assists in supervising Junior Technicians.
• Works with the Manufacturing & Electronics Engineers to develop and learn new processes.

Performance Measurement

Dogtooth operates daily management.  As a member of the manufacturing team, you will contribute to hitting targets and continuous improvement in

• Safety / 5s – A safe workplace organised to productively deliver our best work
• Quality – Using and improving methods and documentation; recording issues
• Delivery – Your work helping deliver our daily and longer term growth plan
• Inventory – Operating our inventory systems
• Productivity – Your work will be measured against standards

Available to a successful candidate

• Hands-on work with cutting-edge robotics. 
• In depth training in lean manufacturing such as 5S, Ishikawa diagrams for fault finding, Value stream mapping, standardised work, kaizen.
• Real ownership and responsibility.
• See the entire life cycle of robots from conception to product support in their installed base.
• Be part of a rapidly growing hardware manufacturing business.
• Bring your dog to work.

To apply, please send your CV and cover letter to Sarah at recruitment@dogtoothtech.com

No recruitment agencies please

Overview of the Role:

We are looking for an experienced software & robotics engineer to join our team and help push our strawberry-picking robots to the next level of capability. Having started delivering orders of our robots to customers, we’re now focused on improving usability and performance, as well as building new functionality to support new applications. We’re a small team with big ambitions and, as a recently-funded start-up, we are able to offer share options as part of remuneration packages, allowing employees to benefit from company success.

The successful applicant will be evidence and experimentally driven, comfortable drawing on multiple sources of data — logs, user feedback, observation and experiments — to evaluate ideas and identify the root cause of bugs before committing time to fixing them. You’ll be a strong team player who works closely with our Product Owner and Head of Platform, and you’ll be equally at home writing code and testing it on the machines themselves.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Develop our machines’ capabilities to the next level, across usability, speed, accuracy and calibration.
• Investigate a range of data sources — logs, user feedback, observation and experiments — to identify and deliver improvements to the machine, and to diagnose the root cause of bugs before fixing them.
• Test your own software directly on our machines, working hands-on with hardware.
• Work closely with our Product Owner and Head of Platform to prioritise and deliver improvements.
• Collaborate across the engineering team to ensure changes are robust, well-tested and fit for a production environment.

Desirable Characteristics:

• 5–10 years’ software engineering experience; C# preferred, otherwise one or more languages in the C family; some Python experience is a plus.
• Experience with robotics is a must (but ROS experience is not required).
• Comfortable working with hardware and testing your own software on physical machines.
• Evidence and experimentally driven approach to problem solving — able to collate evidence from multiple sources before committing to a fix.
• Strong team player, able to work closely with product and platform stakeholders.

Key Relationships:

• Report to the CTO / Head of Platform.
• Work closely with our Product Owner to prioritise and shape improvements.
• Work with our engineering and manufacturing teams to test and deploy changes on live machines.

To apply, please send your CV and cover letter to Sarah at recruitment@dogtoothtech.com

No recruitment agencies please.

Overview of the Role:

We are looking for a talented individual to join our team and play a key role in the commercialisation of our first-of-a-kind technology. We have started delivering orders of our strawberry picking robots to customers and are building a production capability to deliver many more in the months and years to come. We’re a small team with big ambitions and we hope to find someone willing to join us to play this crucial role in our scale-up journey. As a recently-funded start-up we are able to offer share options as part of remuneration packages, allowing employees to benefit from company success.

The successful applicant will be a completer-finisher with attention to detail who can also make pragmatic trade-offs, developing new systems in parallel with day-to-day operations. Experience in previous procurement or purchasing roles would be beneficial.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Scope and implement a high quality purchasing system, covering all aspects from quote, to purchase order, goods receipt and inspection, invoice reconciliation, and stores management.
• Implement a programme to move us to demand driven supply chain – most parts moving to replenishment (pull) with the rest remaining on project-based (push) mechanisms.
• Implement a process for managing our supply chain – managing risks while transitioning relations to a reflect the realities of our spend, including running a cost-down programme, managing supply chain risk, and negotiating terms where appropriate.
• Take on responsibility for replenishment of parts to stores, owning responsibility for preventing stock ruptures to our manufacturing team.
• Monitor and report key procurement data/metrics (std BoM cost, cashflow forecast, days payment outstanding, inventory turns), working closely with our finance team to ensure models are kept up to date
• Manage our third-party logistics process, allowing us to manufacture within the footprint of our existing premises.

Desirable Characteristics:

• Key – Attention to detail, completer-finisher
• Strong track record in procurement or closely related discipline
• Strong skills in standard office-suite software (Excel, etc).
• Experience in project management, experience in implementing business systems would be beneficial.

Key Relationships:

• Report to the COO
• Work with our manufacturing team to ensure stock delivered on time to suit production schedule
• Work with our operations manager to ensure stock available to suit needs of our robot deployments
• Work with our finance team to report key metrics and update finance model assumptions.

To apply, please send your CV and cover letter to Sarah at recruitment@dogtoothtech.com

No recruitment agencies please.

Overview of the Role:

Working within a small team, you will contribute to building and testing new strawberry picking robots as well as repairing, refurbishing and upgrading our existing fleet.  

• Mechanical and electrical assembly with PCBAs, sensors, cables, motors and transmission mechanisms.  This will be following Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) deployed in cellular manufacturing utilising standardised work. 
• System test on newly assembled modules and whole robots, including active performance measurement and diagnostic fault finding.
• Test and diagnosis of issues on Installed Based (IB) equipment as part of our Repair, Refurbishment and Upgrade (RRU) process.  This may be as simple as wear part replacement, a software update or a major dismantling and rebuild with a mechatronic subsystem replacement.

Contract until mid-June 2026

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Build and test of new modules and robots as described above following SOPs in which you will be trained
• Carry out activities in our RRU processes on our IB as described above
• Receive on the job lean manufacturing and problem solving training
• Participate in our 5s works organisation and daily management (short interval control) stand-up meetings
• Raise and resolve bugs involving rework and problem solving of both our products and processes
• Operate our inventory processes and identify exceptions to its operation
• Participate in kaizen improvement events

Characteristics, skills and experience we are looking for:

• Post-18 study in an engineering / science subject – or an ambition to do so!
• Hands-on technical experience in a related field
• Interest in manufacturing & technology
• Mechanical dexterity
• Disciplined with strong sense of urgency
• Problem solving skills
• Good work ethic and ability to work as part of a team
• Eligible to work in the UK.

To apply, please send your C.V. and cover letter to Sarah at recruitment@dogtoothtech.com

No recruitment agencies please

Overview of the Role:

Working within our small Manufacturing team you will spend:

• 3 days a week on the road for safe, timely, and efficient transportation of robot parts/robots between company facilities and customer locations (approx 180 miles driving in a day). 
• 2 days a week assisting the Manufacturing team building & testing new strawberry picking robots as well as repairing, refurbishing and upgrading our existing fleet.  

Robot delivery roles & responsibilities:

• Using our 4×4 & trailer to load/unload/deliver robot parts and robots both locally and to/from Lincolnshire
• Following Standard Operating procedures and Health & Safety guidance for unloading and loading
• Safely operate company vehicles in accordance with the Highway Code and UK road legislation
• Conduct daily vehicle inspections and report maintenance issues promptly
• Communicate effectively with the Dogtooth team, 3rd party warehouse staff, and customers 

Manufacturing Team assistance roles & responsibilities:

• Preparing sub-assemblies
• Replenishing materials to build areas

Characteristics, skills and experience we are looking for:

• Over 25 years old with a clean UK driving license
• Experience driving a trailer (preferred)
• Good work ethic
• Punctuality and dependability
• Ability to be flexible and work as part of a team
• Interest in manufacturing & technology
• Logistical or warehousing experience is a bonus
• Eligible to work in the UK.

2 month role – Beginning February to End of March 2026 – with possibility of continuation

To apply, please send your CV and cover letter to Sarah at recruitment@dogtoothtech.com

No recruitment agencies please

Overview of the Role:

Working within a small team, you will contribute to building and testing new strawberry picking robots as well as repairing, refurbishing and upgrading our existing fleet.  

• Mechanical and electrical assembly with PCBAs, sensors, cables, motors and transmission mechanisms.  This will be following Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) deployed in cellular manufacturing utilising standardised work. 
• System test on newly assembled modules and whole robots, including active performance measurement and diagnostic fault finding.
• Test and diagnosis of issues on Installed Based (IB) equipment as part of our Repair, Refurbishment and Upgrade (RRU) process.  This may be as simple as wear part replacement, a software update or a major dismantling and rebuild with a mechatronic subsystem replacement.

Contract until end of March 2026

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Build and test of new modules and robots as described above following SOPs in which you will be trained
• Carry out activities in our RRU processes on our IB as described above
• Receive on the job lean manufacturing and problem solving training
• Participate in our 5s works organisation and daily management (short interval control) stand-up meetings
• Raise and resolve bugs involving rework and problem solving of both our products and processes
• Operate our inventory processes and identify exceptions to its operation
• Participate in kaizen improvement events

Characteristics, skills and experience we are looking for:

• Post-18 study in an engineering / science subject – or an ambition to do so!
• Hands-on technical experience in a related field
• Interest in manufacturing & technology
• Mechanical dexterity
• Disciplined with strong sense of urgency
• Problem solving skills
• Good work ethic and ability to work as part of a team
• Eligible to work in the UK

To apply, please send your C.V. and cover letter to Sarah at recruitment@dogtoothtech.com

No recruitment agencies please.

We are looking for a highly motivated, curious and hard working individual that would fit within our outstanding multidisciplinary team. You will be a graduate, passionate about technology and eager to improve the state of UK and European agriculture and technology. Your work will contribute to addressing world-wide food security through the means of scalable and autonomous fruit-picking robots.

Overview of the role

You will work in our software team with the test engineers, delivering and improving various software products, such as dashboards that analyse robot performance, Computer Vision and Machine Learning infrastructure and applications, software to manufacture and test robot parts, and of course the core logic for selecting and picking strawberries.

Duties and responsibilities

• Take responsibility to build and maintain applications relevant to the software team.
• Visit customer sites and provide engineering support, as well as collect feedback from the field to improve our products.
• Support other engineers in their work.
• Help with performance analysis and improvement of our robots, utilise and advance our performance models.
• Give periodic presentations on the work you’ve done.

Desirable characteristics

• Pragmatic, first-principals approach to analytical problem solving.
• Strong degree in STEM, with knowledge of statistics, linear algebra, analysis.
• Experience with robotics, hardware or firmware.
• One to two years relevant work experience.
• Willingness to give and receive honest, impartial feedback.
• Experience with programming languages such as C#, python, SQL, bash.
• Ability to learn quickly and effectively in a variety of fields.
• Strong communication skills, ability to defend your point of view and consider other opinions.
• Interest in cutting edge technology.

We don’t expect every candidate to meet all of the desirable qualifications. If you meet many of the requirements and are excited about this role, we encourage you to apply.

To apply, please send your CV and cover letter to recruitment@dogtoothtech.com addressed to Sarah.

No recruitment agencies please.

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

We are looking for a talented Manufacturing Team Leader (TL) to help drive the Manufacturing scale-up of our rapidly growing technology business.

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

Overview of Role

Working within a small team, you will lead the other technicians to deliver a plan of new equipment build and test, and the repair, refurbishment and upgrade of existing fleet equipment.  As a rapidly growing business, you will need to develop a plan for the expansion of production capacity and developing robust capabilities.

In order to do this, you will need to ensure that 

• Safety and 5s standards are adhered to and improved where necessary
• Build instructions are followed and cross-trained 
• Production plans are made and delivered upon
• Continuous improvement opportunities are acted upon appropriately
• Work is standardised

Duties and Responsibilities

• Take a hands-on role in our manufacturing activities to understand the robot and its build and testing.
• Manage and augment our team of technicians.
• Ensure documentation gets adopted via our skills matrix.
• Support the creation of methods and documentation for the manufacture of new and existing products. 

Qualifications / Experience

• Post-18 study in an engineering/ops management/science subject.
• Supervisory experience.
• Hands-on technical experience in a related field.
• Recruiting / building work team.
• Demonstrable success with root cause problem solving.
• Full clean driving licence.
• Must be able to work in the UK.

Desirable Characteristics

• Disciplined, with a strong sense of urgency.
• Attention to detail, and able to identify which further requisite detail to pursue next.
• Understands and is comfortable with the tradeoffs between organisational capabilities and team building.
• Sets and works towards sensible, challenging milestones.
• Able to draw the correct balance between following process and knowing when to intervene and/or escalate problems.
• Data driven in problem solving.
• Personable, emotionally intelligent.
• Likes simple solutions.
• Happy to work wherever Genba is.

Key Relationships

• Reports to the Manufacturing Director.
• Works with Manufacturing Engineers to transfer products to manufacture.
• Works with our customer facing team (ops engineers, site managers) to ensure manufacturing remains close to our customers.
• Works with Buyer Planner to ensure robust production plans are made and delivered upon.
• Works with technicians to ensure their development i.e. skills matrix coverage to match business needs.

Performance Measurement

Dogtooth operates daily management.  As a member of the manufacturing leadership team, you will be responsible for delivering against targets:

• Safety – Incidents and near misses
• Delivery – On time delivery to plan, jointly with the planner/buyer
• Productivity – Direct labour productivity measured against standardised work

Additionally, you will support your colleagues

• Quality – using and improving methods and documentation
• Inventory – operating and contributing to the improvement of shop floor inventory systems

Available to a successful candidate

• In depth training in lean manufacturing.
• Development opportunities for a senior manufacturing management leadership role.
• See the entire life cycle of robots from conception to product support in their installed base.
• Be part of a rapidly growing hardware manufacturing business.
• Bring your dog to work.

To apply, please send your CV and cover letter to recruitment@dogtoothtech.com addressed to Sarah.

No recruitment agencies please