Applications Engineer

VPG has a long history of innovation, specifically in precision foil resistors and foil strain gauges. This served as a foundation to expand into strain gauge instrumentation, load cells, transducers, weighing modules and complete systems for process control and on-board vehicle weighing.

VPG has facilities and operations in 13 countries, with more than 30 sites and over 2700 colleagues across the globe we recognise it is our talented people that are key in ensuring we successfully achieve our business aims.

We have a vacancy for an Applications Engineer to play a key role in ensuring we can meet customer requirements balanced alongside producing high quality and reliable products.

Here at VPG we recognise the value of having a diverse workforce and welcome all candidates, however we are unable to offer Visa sponsorship for this role at present.

The role:

The successful candidate will act as the technical interface between Sales, Customers, Manufacturing and R&D, supporting the specification, development, assembly, inspection, testing and deployment of On Board Weighing Solutions and related products globally.

Key Responsibilities:

• Application engineering and customer requirements support.
• Preparation of specifications, BOMs, drawings and technical documentation.
• Global technical support for customers, distributors and internal teams.
• Hand assembly and rework of PCBAs and prototype systems.
• Box-build assembly, wiring and integration activities.
• Development and maintenance of engineering test equipment and test rigs.
• Support laboratory, vehicle and customer-site testing.
• Fault finding, troubleshooting and product verification.
• First Article Inspection (FAI) and sample inspection activities.
• 100% inspection of prototype, sample and first article hardware where required.
• Support new product introduction and engineering change implementation

Requirements

The ideal candidate for this position will have the following skills and experience:

• ONC\/HNC in a relevant engineering discipline.
• Experience in engineering, manufacturing or product development.
• Good electrical and mechanical aptitude.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings, schematics and wiring diagrams.
• Soldering and electronic assembly skills.
• Experienced in use of electronic test equipment including multimeters and oscilloscopes.
• Practical fault-finding and root cause investigation skills.

Benefits

Upon joining VPG, you become part of an amazing global community. We offer training in many different topics including professional and personal development. We believe in motivating our people to meet their goals and progress in their career and are big on internal promotions. There are so many opportunities for progression; we have had many success stories this year alone.

Our main employee benefits include:

• Competitive salary package
• Welcome Pack complete with VPG merchandise
• Pension Scheme
• Life assurance scheme
• Annual leave 25 days plus public holidays (rising to 30 days with service)
• Recruitment referral scheme
• Free on-site Parking
• Company funded Social Events
• Charity committee events (the opportunity to complete voluntary work for the charities we support)
• Personal development opportunities