Salary up to £29,600 depending on experience
Hybrid working 4 days / week onsite
Renishaw plc is a global engineering and scientific technology company, recognised for innovation in high-precision metrology, manufacturing systems, additive manufacturing and healthcare technologies. With over 5,000 employees worldwide, Renishaw offers exciting opportunities to contribute to cutting-edge technologies.
Due to continued growth within our Spectroscopy Products Division, we are seeking a Project and Technical Design Administrator to play a key role in supporting engineering design and change management activities. Working closely with designers, engineers, project leads and operational teams, you will help coordinate design changes, maintain project documentation and support the successful delivery of products and projects.
This varied role offers exposure to project coordination, technical administration and cross-functional collaboration, making it ideal for someone who enjoys organisation, problem-solving and making a tangible impact within an engineering environment.
Responsibilities
Co-ordinate and facilitate design changes across engineering teams, using Renishaw’s engineering change management system to efficiently drive design change.
Providing support to the engineering leads with preparing and presenting information required for review meetings.
Work alongside Purchasing, Material Control and Specials teams to support these areas with their function and data requests.
Collaborate with designers, engineers, and project managers to define the scope of design changes, identifying all affected parts, divisions and stakeholders.
Ensure that all design changes are accurately documented and communicated to relevant stakeholders.
Facilitate effective communication between departments to communicate design change status and ensure seamless implementation of design changes.
Actively drive design changes to completion by assisting users with open tasks to ensure change is being actioned efficiently.
Identify and mitigate any potential risks associated with design changes.
Driving simple design changes through Teamcenter and NX.
Collate lessons learnt, providing suggestions to improve processes and performance within the division.
Utilise skills to support purchased part inspections, concession administration, material management, compliance data, VRMAs.
Key requirements
Keen eye for attention to detail and accuracy.
Adept in organisation and multitasking to track multiple open design changes across different projects.
Be a confident and comfortable communicator
Ability to work effectively under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
Educated to A level (or equivalent) standard, supported by GCSEs (or equivalent) in Maths, English, and Science.
Desirable requirements
Prior knowledge and understanding of engineering change management processes and assembly bill of materials structure.
Exposure to Teamcenter and NX software packages.
Understanding of project management.
Person Specification
As a Project and Technical Design Administrator, you’ll enjoy being involved in the detail that helps engineering projects succeed. You will support design teams in implementing changes, help colleagues navigate processes efficiently, and take ownership of varied technical and project-related activities.
You’ll be a confident communicator who enjoys working with people across different teams, functions and manufacturing sites around the world, using your organisational skills to bring clarity and momentum to design change activity.
A flexible and proactive attitude will help you build broad experience across design support, project coordination and technical administration, while contributing to continuous improvement within the division.
Benefits
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 BUPA Renishaw Health Trust and an Employee Assistance Programme for employees and family.
Please click here for further information about our benefits.
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.
We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments to make interviews and jobs more accessible. Should you have any difficulty during the recruitment process, or require any reasonable adjustments please contact the recruitment team on 01453 490384 or [email protected].
Please click here for further information about diversity and inclusion at Renishaw.
Employment Type:
PermanentTime Type:
Full timeRequisition Number:
R9759 Departmental Administrator (Open)Skills Required
- Attention to detail and accuracy
- Organisational and multitasking skills to track multiple design changes
- Confident and effective communication skills
- Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines
- Educated to A level (or equivalent) with GCSEs in Maths, English, and Science
- Knowledge of engineering change management and bill of materials structure
- Exposure to Teamcenter and NX software packages
- Understanding of project management
Renishaw Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Renishaw and has not been reviewed or approved by Renishaw.
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Retirement Support — The pension scheme includes a 9% employer contribution with salary‑sacrifice options, signaling strong long‑term savings support. Feedback suggests this materially strengthens total compensation in the UK.
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Healthcare Strength — Subsidized private medical cover, life assurance, and a 24/7 EAP—alongside options like a health cash plan and on‑site fitness centers—indicate comprehensive health and wellbeing support. These provisions contribute to a sense of strong healthcare coverage.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — 25 days of annual leave with company days, long‑service accrual, and the option to buy additional leave point to generous time‑off provision. Hybrid and “variable working” arrangements further support work–life balance when roles allow.
Renishaw Insights
What We Do
Renishaw is one of the world's leading engineering and scientific technology companies, with expertise in precision measurement and healthcare. The company supplies products and services used in applications as diverse as jet engine and wind turbine manufacture, through to dentistry and brain surgery. It is also a world leader in the field of additive manufacturing (also referred to as 3D printing), where it designs and makes industrial machines which ‘print' parts from metal powder. The Renishaw Group currently has 80 offices in 36 countries, with over 5,000 employees, of which over 3,000 people are employed within the UK. The majority of the company's R&D and manufacturing is carried out in the UK and for the year ended June 2019, Renishaw achieved sales of £574 million of which 94% was due to exports. The company's largest markets are USA, China, Japan and Germany
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