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Do you want to work for a genuinely purpose-led company driven by innovation, passion and a desire to? Well, here is your chance. Intelligent Growth Solutions (IGS) is a fast-growing innovative Agritech OEM changing how the world approaches farming.
Our leading-edge indoor vertical farming infrastructure allows our customers, the growers, to control every element of the growing environment to produce a range of plants, crops, fruit and herbs in optimum conditions, anywhere in the world.
Employing over 220 staff between sites in Edinburgh, outside Dundee and Inverkeithing in Fife, we deploy our vertical farming infrastructure to customers across the globe.
The global indoor vertical farming market is set to explode and as a market leader, IGS has an incredible opportunity to be seen as the go-to leading OEM brand. The business is keen to add to our expanding Hardware Team by recruiting a Graduate Electronics Engineer.
The Role
Reporting into the Electrical and Electronics Systems Leader, the Graduate Electronics Engineer will will work with a team spanning multiple disciplines e.g., Research, Hardware and Software Engineering, Supply Chain and Customer Support.
The position will be based at our Inverkeithing Engineering Innovation Centre, and home working is supported. Some travel to our Crop Research Centre in Invergowrie is expected for test and integration of systems. Key responsibilities will include:
- Sub-system design of electronic assemblies.
- Initial testing of new designs.
- Contributing to design reviews.
- Experimenting with a variety of sensor technologies to feed our desire for high quality data.
- Supporting Engineering Change Control of existing designs.
- Progressing work against agreed timelines and budget.
About the Candidate
The relevant candidate is educated to degree calibre minimum in Electrical Electronics Engineering, Robotics/Automation or Mechatronics. Ideally, you will have some relevant work, placement, project-based experience in an electrical/electronic systems or products environment.
Familiarity with the process and tools required to create PCB's would be a distinct advantage and we would be especially keen to hear from candidates with Analogue/Digital signal processing for sensors, embedded coding skills and/or Library management experience; within Altium for example.
This represents an incredible opportunity to “give something back” and be part of a culture geared to helping to feed the world. If you are looking for the chance to shape a market and be a content subject matter expert then we want to speak to you. This is a new role in the team.
What we offer
Your excellent base salary (£27-31,000) is accentuated by a comprehensive benefits package; including 35 days annuals leave, company pension, cycle to work scheme, employee development grant and excellent training and mentoring. But most of all what we do is “cool” and this is what will motivate you to apply.
