Salary up to £48,000 depending on experience
Location Wotton-under-Edge, Glos
Hybrid working 3 days/week on-site (please note, no public transport availably)
Renishaw, a world leader in high end technologies is currently seeking to recruit a Usability Engineer. Working on our MODUS suite of software products, the role exposes the successful candidate to some of our latest cutting-edge technologies.
The role will primarily involve working with software development teams to help improve the usability of the products they produce, while empowering the teams to become more self-sufficient as their experience grows.
This is a unique opportunity to join a growing team where your inputs will be valued. Working with software systems that include hardware is a challenging and rewarding area to apply your usability design expertise.
Responsibilities
- Focus on managing the daily demands of iterative incremental UI & UX design within a production environment
- Work closely with the product owners and technical leads to assist with the definition of user stories and to develop initial user interface and interaction designs
- Develop workflow sketches, low-fidelity mock-ups, storyboards and design alternatives
- Work within, and help to extend, the existing Renishaw usability standards and guidelines
Key requirements
- Expertise or exposure to the fields of Human Factors, Ergonomics or User Centred Design
- Proven ability to design user-centric workflows to complex problems
- Proven presentation / public speaking skills
- Exposure to software, mechanical or electrical engineering
- Proven ability to create storyboards / wireframes / UI prototypes
Desirable requirements
- Successful experience in managing a small team or mentoring others
- Exposure to working with an Agile software development team
Person specification
The successful applicant will have an interest in keeping up to date with interaction design and software / hardware human interface design. They will be self-motivated and driven, capable of managing tasks to completion and to the highest standard. The individual in this role will have effective communication, liaison and client-facing skills, and will be a good team player, able to articulate their views while participating in design debates.
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 Renishaw Health Trust (Aviva) 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:
R9871 Senior UX Engineer (Open)Skills Required
- Expertise or exposure to Human Factors, Ergonomics, or User-Centred Design
- Proven ability to design user-centric workflows for complex problems
- Proven presentation and public speaking skills
- Exposure to software, mechanical, or electrical engineering
- Ability to create storyboards, wireframes, and UI prototypes
- Experience managing a small team or mentoring others
- Exposure to working with an Agile software development team
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.
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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
