Open Positions

Would you like to be part of building a brand new industry? We are looking for a Buyer-Planner (BP) to support our rapidly growing technology business.

Overview of Role

The BP will ensure that materials are available for the manufacturing team to meet the
requirements of robot build and field support for deployment. This involves timely engagement with new designs, quotation, purchasing, receiving, inspection and disposition.
It may include build and test of kits and subassemblies.

Demand comes from triggers from part usage and planned procurement for scheduled build of released products and new product launches.

The BP will also ensure (in conjunction with the Lead Build Technician) that a resource levelled production plan is made and delivered.

The BP will ensure stock accuracy through kanban system and stock checks.

The BP will contribute to testing/commissioning production (up to 50% time)

Duties and Responsibilities

Immediate:

• Monitors incoming Engineering Change Notes (ECN) and reviews new and modified parts
• Ensures transfer of ECN parts information to Released Parts Database
• Reviews Configuration Bill of Materials (Config BoM) being released to manufacturing through the ECN
• Issues Request For Quotation (RFQ) and curates responses
• Pulls Config BoM cost together based on RFQ and/or last-paid price on incumbent parts
• Issues Purchase orders (PRN) to suppliers
• Maintains active suppliers list
• Monitors supplier acknowledgements, progress, deliveries, expedites lates and at-risks
• Answers supplier queries to satisfactory resolution
• Answers accounts queries on invoice payables
• Recording deliveries and incoming inspection, managing materials disposition into our cellular parts supermarkets
• Filling spares orders to field operations sites

Will develop to include:

• Support and is engaged in spend segmentation exercises on released parts
• Participates in weekly production planning as expert in materials availability to kit
• Will reconcile Master Production Schedule (MPS) to order coverage for parts
• Replenishment (kanban) ordering of spares/service exchange parts/consumables
• Raises and ensures administration and record retention of works orders
• Contribute to supermarket design, layout, kanban card design and short interval control
• Contribute to plan for space utilisation (materials storage)
• Will run the kanban turns review and cycle count (stock control) processes
• Supplier performance measurement for On Time Delivery and Quality

Desirable Characteristics

• Attention to detail
• Disciplined, thrives in cadenced environments, has a sense of urgency
• Sets and works towards sensible milestones
• Thrives on achievement of outcomes, even if the work also comprises repetitive tasks
• Able to draw correct balance between following process and knowing when to intervene/escalate problems
• Personable, emotionally intelligent, confident talking to suppliers
• Likes dogs

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

We are looking for an outstanding engineer to join our Mechanical Engineering team
and help bring exciting new technologies to market.

Overview of the role

Our hardware team sits at the core of making autonomous fruit picking commercially
possible – delivering the platform that bring our state-of-the-art machine learning into
the field reliably and at a cost. We constantly balance performance with cost, making
the appropriate trade-offs and de-risking key functionality early to hit our overall
targets.

The role promises a diverse and dynamic workload typical of a start-up environment,
encompassing everything from the initial development of concepts and hardware
prototyping to the design-for-manufacture of comprehensive whole-machine
subsystems.

A unique aspect of these positions is the opportunity to witness your
innovative ideas being brought to life on a grand scale. Although we’ve detailed a few desirable characteristics and qualifications as a guide below, we encourage you not to let this deter you from applying. Our primary interest lies in your attitude and your method of approaching problem-solving. We are a supportive team and will work hard to provide both exciting challenges and development/training opportunities where they’re needed. We welcome candidates from a range of backgrounds, education (apprenticeship and degree), and experience levels.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design, build and test prototypes with lead engineers
• Support our design Engineers with analysis
• Take on responsibility for projects delivering new functionality into our robot fleet from concept to scale
• Work with suppliers and manufacturing team to define SOPs, build documentation and appropriate quality control processes

Desirable characteristics:

• 0-5 years’ experience – we welcome applications from new graduates with relevant work or personal project experience.
• Strong pragmatic, first-principals approach to analytical problem solving.
• Completer-finisher approach – willingness to take responsibility for overall delivery as well as technical input, pulling in support for areas outside own area of expertise.
• Proficiency in the use of software to support analysis and design – MS Excel, MATLAB/Octave, etc. CAD software experience an advantage (will be using Autodesk Inventor).
• Ability to get stuck in with the team but also solve problems independently.
• Strong communication skills – ability to review ideas and decisions with the team, working with a wide range of stakeholders of varying technical experience.
• Ability to flex across various types of work – assembling and evaluating prototypes, designing mechanical assemblies, developing assembly SOPs, defining cable routings & drawings.
• Ability to prove out ideas pragmatically and practically in appropriate stages of the design process.
• GD&T, tolerance analysis & structural FEA would be beneficial.

Reference ID: DTMechEngineer
If you would like to apply for this role, please send your C.V. and cover letter
to recruitment@dogtoothtech.com

Would you like to be part of building a brand new industry? We are looking for a talented Manufacturing Engineer (ME) to help drive the R&D efforts of our rapidly growing technology business.

Overview of Role

The MT builds, tests and repairs robots and their ancillary equipment to the defined
specifications and using the current best way prescribed in our Standard Operating
Procedures (SOPs). The MT will also contribute to improvements to the design of the robots and the design of work methods by which we perform repair, build and test them.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Learn and adhere to our SOPs for the work of building and testing robots, and in the repair, refurbishment and upgrade of our existing fleet
• Contribute to effective SOP creation and improvement
• Become involved in root cause problem solving
• Working on new development projects as a supporting technician
• Playing a key part in improvement activities through 5s, standardised work and materials
• kaizen improvement events

Duties and Responsibilities

• Attention to detail
• Passion for work, even if it is sometimes repetitive
• Mechanical dexterity
• Disciplined, thrives in time-paced environments, has a sense of urgency
• Wants to learn and apply lean manufacturing thinking to their jobs
• Has a technology background, experience or interest

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

We are looking for a dynamic and thorough Test Technician to join our team and help bring new technologies ready to the field.

Overview of the role

The R&D Test Technician will be responsible for development testing and type approval of our new machines as they come through the development cycle.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Testing of new technologies under development, including Type approval of whole new products.  This will include hardware and software testing, cloud services, and standard operating procedures
• Verification of whole machine performance
• Development of new test tooling and methods where needed
• Specification and development of new test equipment
• Risk assessments
• Ensure all R&D test equipment is serviced and calibrated
• Detail design work for tooling & fixtures (mechanical, electronics, possibly software tooling)
• Flex the day-job to help the operations engineer deploy new hardware or processes to the field or fix existing hardware

Desirable Characteristics 

• Methodical, systematic approach to testing 
• Can-do, hands-on attitude
• Able to self-manage test throughput
• Experience in testing complex systems, including hardware, networking, software
• Familiarity with testing methods from relevant industries
• Good data skills: Excel, understanding of basic statistics would be helpful
• We welcome candidates from a range of backgrounds, education (HNC/D or degree), and experience levels
• Full driving license is a must-have: Ability to drive a van to deploy robots would be strongly beneficial

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

We receive a great deal of interest from recruitment agencies, we do appreciate the desire to work with us. We advertise current job vacancies on our website to enable potential candidates interested in joining our team to connect directly with us. 

When direct sourcing is not possible, we may opt to engage a recruitment agency from our preferred supplier list.

If you feel you have a candidate who fits the requirements outlined in a job advertised on our website, we kindly request that you send their CV for review exclusively to recruitment@dogtoothtech.com.

If we would like to discuss further with you, we will be in touch.

Thank you in advance.

We are looking for two outstanding Mechanical Design Engineers – a junior (permanent) and a senior (one-year contract) to join our hardware team and help bring exciting new technologies to market. 

Overview of the roles

These roles promise a diverse and dynamic workload typical of a start-up environment, encompassing everything from the initial development of concepts and hardware prototyping to the design-for-manufacture of comprehensive whole-machine subsystems. A unique aspect of these positions is the opportunity to witness your innovative ideas being brought to life on a grand scale.

Although we’ve detailed a few desirable characteristics and qualifications as a guide below, we encourage you not to let this deter you from applying. Our primary interest lies in your attitude and your method of approaching problem-solving. We are a supportive team and will work hard to provide both exciting challenges and development/training opportunities where they’re needed. We welcome candidates from a range of backgrounds, education (apprenticeship and degree), and experience levels.

Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Design, build and test prototypes with lead engineers
• Generate manufacturing drawings, BOMs, and other documentation for machines in production quantities
• Work with suppliers and manufacturing team to define SOPs, build documentation and appropriate quality control processes

Desirable characteristics:

• 1-15 yrs experience of machinery design, ideally for medium volume production (50-2000 units)
• Completer-finisher approach to design
• Proficiency in CAD software (will be using Autodesk Inventor)
• Ability to get stuck in with the team but also solve problems independently
• Strong communication skills – ability to review ideas and decisions with the team
• Ability to flex across various types of work – assembling and evaluating prototypes, designing mechanical assemblies, developing assembly SOPs, defining cable routings & drawings.
• Ability to prove out ideas pragmatically and practically in appropriate stages of the design process
• GD&T, tolerance analysis & structural FEA would be beneficial
• HND or degree qualified
• Experience of sheet-metal design

Senior role specifically:

• Ability to liaise with suppliers independently and incorporate design rules for novel processes
• Ability to consider BOM, assembly and tooling costs within the design process
• Scale-up and cost reduction: design of actuators, mechanisms, robotics in medium to high volume (>500) major benefit.

Reference ID: DTMechDesignEngineer

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

We are looking for a dynamic and thorough Standards and Compliance Engineer to join our team and help bring our exciting new technologies to market.

Overview of the role

You will work with the Hardware CTO to manage the process of taking our new high-tech products through the CE-marking process, ensuring their compliance with  product standards.

Duties and Responsibilities

(Primary):

• Plan and manage the CE / UKCA marking process and the wider team’s contribution towards it.  This involves addressing Machinery Safety Directive, Electromagnetic Compatibility, Electrical Safety, Radio, Food safety etc.
• Collate requirements from standards, summarise technical arguments towards how those requirements are met, and own all summary documents including Machine Safety Risk Assessment and Technical File.
• Drive others in the team and external test houses to get the engagement needed with the process.
• Engage with external consultants to review the standards applicable and our technical arguments.
• Liaise with Manufacturing and other business units to ensure CE controls are appropriate.
• Be responsible for safety risk assessments for machines and their use in R&D.

(Secondary):

• Contribute to safety calculations and analysis of safety circuits.
• Contribute to solving engineering problems where technical skills are appropriate.
• Manage other development projects.

Desirable Characteristics 

• Technical skills: Good technical writing skills & highly numerate.
• Planning: Methodical. Well organised, and ability to coordinate disparate teams. Excel / Gantt.
• Pragmatic approach to solving problems & requirements within tight constraints – both managerial and technical.
• Experience of CE marking process of a machine under relevant directives.

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