Heathrow
Salary: Up to £50,000
Are you a Lift Service Engineer looking to take the next step in your career?
If the answer is Yes, please read on.
A leading global provider of mobility solutions is growing its UK service team. Known for innovation, safety and long-term reliability, this organisation supports millions of people every day across major cities and communities.
Key Responsibilities of the successful Lift Service Engineer:
Key requirements of the successful Lift Service Engineer:
If you are interested in this Lift Service Engineer opportunity, please use the application link
London EC2
£37k-£42k
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Structural Engineer seeking a new challenge. You will be joining the Civil & Structural Engineering division within this well established and highly reputable property consultancy working on buildings projects.
The firm covers architecture, MEP, Surveying, Sustainability, Masterplanning and structural design. They have around 150 staff and have been established over 100 years with a highly reputable industry name. They are backed by a large investment firm meaning that they are assured financial stability and are in an excellent market position for continued success.
They work on a collaborative basis between teams and are able to offer the ability of all round resource to clients. They offer a mutual team support philosophy and bonus to incorporate a team sharing ethos rather than separate teams just acting as cost centres. They work to unlock efficiencies as a business to enhance margins and offer an excellent client service.
The current structural team stands at 18 staff and they are now looking to develop and grow this team, as the company see the opportunity and need for investment in this area.
The role is aimed at a candidate with around 2-3 years of experience of buildings structures projects. Knowledge of Rhino and Grasshopper would be useful and experience in both RC and steel is preferable. Excellent support for Chartership will be provided.
This is a real opportunity to carve a niche for yourself within both the industry and the firm.
Projects are very varied in both size and scope, currently including work in the defence sector, industrial buildings, residential projects, projects for the Police, garden centres, schools and concrete resi mid rise frames, to name but some. Projects are commonly up to £40m in value.
The firm has great office space, up to date systems and infrastructure, are flexible in nature, modern and fun, pro-active, and can offer excellent opportunities for promotion and progression. They have a diverse work force and no one is pigeon-holed here. Everyone counts, takes responsibility and has a real input and purpose.
Benefits offered in addition to excellent base salary will include:
Sam Robson
07749 155538
Aldwych Consulting values diversity and promotes equality. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and/or additional arrangements as required to support your application.
Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.
For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.
This role will be working from home, with company van, carrying out Installation, Commissioning Maintenance and Service work at customer sites. Attractive salary with overtime, including all travel time and annual bonus. Hours are Monday to Friday daytime.
You will be joining a nationwide network of Installation and Service Engineers. All products are designed and manufactured at our client’s UK base. Products are typically installed in schools, colleges, hospitals. Candidates should be eligible to apply for DBS clearance.
We are ideally seeking candidates with industrial Electrical/mechanical Installation/Maintenance experience. Specialist training will be offered offering the opportunity to gain further qualifications and career advancement.
Duties and Responsibilities will include:
Opportunity: Field Engineer
Contract: Permanent
Salary: £36,339 - £38,153 + Overtime available, door to door payments and optional call out
Company: Briggs Equipment
Hours Monday – Friday. 40 hours a week
Location: Kilmarnock and surrounding areas.
About Us: Briggs Equipment Group is a leading provider of material handling, powdered access, plant and specialist rental equipment offering new and used sales, short and long-term hire, engineering services, training and asset management.
We have a new opportunity for a Field Engineer to join our friendly and supportive engineering team.
We welcome applications from candidates with backgrounds in forklift trucks, plant machinery, agricultural equipment, HGVs, passenger vehicles, or similar machinery.
In the role you will be:
What will help you to excel in this role:
What you can expect from us:
What’s next
If you are interested in joining The Briggs Group, then please click on the apply now button and a member of the team will be in touch.
Not sure if this is the right role for you? Please feel free to visit the careers page on our website and send us your CV speculatively for a member of the team to review.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to assist you in the interview process, then please contact a member of the Recruitment Team, and inform them prior to attending so we can ensure these are met.
Company description:
Fantastic challenges. Amazing opportunities.
GKN Aerospace is reimagining air travel: going further, faster and greener! Fuelled by great people whose expertise and creativity sets the standards in our industry, were inspired by the opportunities to innovate and break boundaries. Were proud to play a part in protecting the worlds democracies. And were committed to putting sustainability at the centre of everything we do, opening up and protecting our planet. With over 16,000 employees globally, across 33 manufacturing sites in 12 countries we serve over 90% of the worlds aircraft and engine manufacturers. There are no limits to where you can take your career.
Job description:
Job Summary
GKN Aerospace is an original aerospace innovator. For decades, GKN Aerospace technologies have inspired and industrialised the aerospace industry, combining engineering and technological excellence. All major aircraft and engine manufacturers rely on our advanced technologies. Going forward we will further enhance our capability by building a network of Global Technology Centres (GTC).
GKN Aerospace Engineering Offices in Cowes, Isle of Wight builds upon a 70 years heritage of technology research and development. Civil and Defence teams work within our manufacturing locations representing a significant part of our history and continue to be an investment for our future business. We strive to ensure that GKN Aerospace continues to be the greatest place to work, as much as the Isle of Wight is the best place to live.
Join us and be part of Defence - Systems Engineering & Technology at GKN Aerospace. We are a growing team, with a mission to be the most trusted product and technology development and support partner to our internal and external defence customers, through our use of world-class people, processes and differentiated technologies.
We are looking for a Senior Engineer with a background in Electrical/Mechanical Systems Engineering to help shape the future of flight. Reporting to the Engineering Team Lead the successful candidate will develop, integrate, implement, and verify technical solutions and compliance documentation; compliant with all relevant customer, regulatory, and airworthiness requirements, within agreed programme, schedule, and manufacturing constraints.
This is a very exciting and potentially career defining opportunity. You will be a leading member of the team embarking on a significant and challenging technology development project. This four year project will be a major steppingstone towards achieving the next generation of avionics for customer Tilt-Rotors.
The project will operate from our GKN facilities in Cowes, Isle of Wight and there is the requirement to be flexible with International travel within Europe and to U.S. (approximately every two months). We offer hybrid working, the opportunity to work from home up to two days per week dependent on the needs of the business.
For this opportunity we will provide a relocation support package (if applicable) to the Isle of Wight, for the successful applicant should this location be of interest.
Job Accountabilities
Quality assurance reviewer of design deliverables created by the GKN Defence - Systems Engineering team
Data analysis and reporting into qualification arguments and submissions for GKN Defence avionic, control systems and sub-systems
Release of stakeholder and internal technical communications
Technical work breakdown of program planning objectives
Assure best practice development within systems engineering excellence
Mentor and develop systems engineering team members
System engineering inputs to technology incubator process
Profile description:
What You’ll Bring
To help us make a difference, youll bring your passion and talent for what you do along with the following skills, experience, qualifications and attributes:
Specific Technical Experience
HNC, degree OR equivalent experience in electrical, mechanical, or systems engineering
Demonstrable experience as a Lead Engineer delivering designs for electro-mechanical, sensing OR controller systems within an engineering environment
Proven design and delivery of high quality and reliable systems in a complex regulatory environment (e.g. MIL-STD, TUV cert, etc)
Proven track record (minimum 1 project), in compliance planning and verification & validation analysis for product release
Advanced experience of the Systems Development Lifecycle process
Intermediate experience of requirement decomposition and tools (e.g. DOORS)
Intermediate experience defining system / modular architecture
Advanced experience developing system control functions & logic models
Ability to design and set-up experiments and fixtures for testing
Confident interrogating CAD models and drawings (such CATIA V5)
Proficiency in Microsoft Office Applications.
Essential General Experience:
Technical leadership - Ability to mentor develop functional team members
Confident presenting technical information to a wider audience including senior stakeholders and internal customers
Live the culture of Plan-Do-Check-Act and continuous improvement
Hands-on approach Have a real desire to be up close to the components and people that build our systems.
Desirable:
Working experience delivering system designs using MBSE toolbox (e.g. SysML)
Experience in safety assessment software/toolbox FTA and FMEA (e.g. ANSYS Medini, Isograph)
Proficiency in multi-domain modelling/simulation packages (e.g. MATLAB, Simulink, Simscape, Amesim)
Note: Some GKN programmes are subject to regulatory restrictions which may impact certain nationalities. As part of the application process you will be asked to declare when applying for this role.
We offer:
What We’ll Offer
Once youre on board youll get the following perks and benefits:
Competitive salary dependent on experience
Opportunity to earn up to 15% bonus
Industry Leading Pension Scheme = well match your contributions up to 8% on a 1 : 1.5 basis
Life Assurance 8 x salary
185 hours holiday + bank holidays
Relocation support (if applicable)
Hybrid working giving you the opportunity to balance home and office working
Income protection
Shopping discounts
Cycle To Work Scheme
Employee Assistance Programme
A collaborative, dynamic working environment
Join us and keep the world moving click on the link below to apply
Role Purpose
Responsible for the safe execution of a portfolio of concurrent projects for various Rolls -Royce sites. As part of the role the Project Manager must ensure that the projects are delivered to meet Integral & Rolls Royces standards regarding health, safety, quality, cost and programme, whilst complying as a Principal Contractor with current CDM legislation. This includes compliance with MS18 and CSO6 Rolls Royce standards. Project Managers must be qualified in a related trade, civils/groundworks/building structuresetc.
Duties & Responsibilities
Skills & Experience
About us
Project Services is a wholly owned subsidiary of JLL, global real estate services firm that provides comprehensive, integrated property related expertise, including management, transaction and advisory services, to investors and occupiers locally, regionally and globally.
Project Services delivers design & build solutions using a network of partner trade package subcontractors and suppliers. Through strong growth and outstanding regional client service, the Project Services business has become JLL UK & I leaders of design & build services provider.
At JLL, you’ll have a chance to innovate with the world’s leading businesses, put that expertise into action on landmark projects, and work on game-changing workplace and facilities management initiatives. You’ll also make long-lasting professional connections through sharing different perspectives, and you’ll be inspired by the best. We’re focused on opportunity and want to help you make the most of yours.
Embedded Linux Engineer 60-70k Cambridge
Are you a driven engineer experienced with Linux build systems & networking?
I am partnered with an ambitious scale-up in the heart of Cambridge that takes a leading role in wireless innovation.
The company started as a passion project, and since then it has grown into a company that develops architecture that huge multinationals model their systems after.
Responsibilities as an Embedded Linux Engineer :
Requirements:
Desirable skills for an Embedded Linux Engineer:
Apply now to join an R&D team shaping the future of networking!
A long running architectural consultancy with studios in Bristol and London have built up excellent relationships with their clients and stakeholders with projects throughout all of the country. The central Bristol studio with 50 members of staff encompasses architecture, masterplanning and Interior Design is now looking for a Technical Architect. You will play a key role on 'project delivery' working with a wide range of consultants from stage 4 onwards. In this role you will oversee the drawing information and ensure any issues on site are resolved. We are looking to hear from Architects with 4+ years of post qualification experience who hold a good understanding of construction legislations. You will have a good 'eye for detail' and be literate with REVIT. You will enjoy a 'buzzy working atmosphere' in a collaborative environment which is in a great location. They have 23 days holiday, paid subscriptions, childcare vouchers and a flexible approach to working hours. If you feel you have the attributes our client is looking for then please send across your cv and portfolio.
My leading Digital client are looking for a talented and motivated individual to provide technical leadership in designing, developing and maintaining their digital initiatives and application development as they venture into offering more services for consumers across multiple digital channels.
You’ll ensure the current implementation of their digital solutions are in line with industry best practices and standards. Whilst also driving improvements in the design, processes & implementation to improve operational management, scalability, and extensibility.
This is a newly created role for a growing business. An amazing opportunity!
The following skills/experience is essential:
Salary: Up to £95,000 + bonus + package
Location: London (good work from home options available)
If you are interested in this React Native App Lead position and meet the above requirements please apply immediately.
Location: Cambridge
Type: Permanent
Hours: Monday-Friday, 8.30am - 5.30pm, flexible / hybrid options available
Salary: £65000+ depending on experience
Job Reference: 35961
Polytec is seeking is a skilled Hardware Engineer for our Cambridge based client. You will be designing and developing cutting-edge medical and scientific devices. This role involves working on analogue, digital, RF, low-power and embedded systems, ensuring compliance with industry standards.
Responsibilities:
Design hardware systems including schematics, PCB layout and embedded solutions for battery-powered products
Lead the full hardware development lifecycle including requirements, design, prototyping, testing, debugging and production support
Ensure compliance with regulatory standards (e.g., IEC 60601, ISO 13485)
Conduct EMC testing and troubleshoot hardware issues
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver integrated solutions
Maintain accurate documentation and stay current with advancements in low-power and RF technologies
Requirements:
Proven experience in medical, diagnostic or scientific device development
Strong background in analogue, digital, RF and embedded systems design
Proficiency in schematic capture, PCB layout and debugging
Expertise in low-power design, signal conditioning BLE and RF systems
Experience with EMC testing and regulatory compliance
Hands-on embedded firmware development
Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
Desirable:
Experience with full product lifecycle and NPI processes
Knowledge of quality assurance and documentation best practices.
Please contact us as soon as possible for more details or apply below
Description
Application Engineer
Location: Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, UK (F/T Site)
Security Clearance Level: DV
UNLEASH YOUR POTENTIAL
Leidos has more than 30 years’ experience of developing and running some of the largest government systems in the world. We are currently hiring to expand our UK based technical team who support our delivery for the UK Govt. Come join our team and further develop your skills as we deliver and support systems key to the defence of the UK and partner nations.
Being part of the Leidos team is a commitment to push yourself and those around you to do better, constantly adapt and learn new technologies. We’re a passionate team and are committed to developing and growing our staff.
Leidos is a global science and technology solutions leader working to solve the world’s toughest challenges in the defence, intelligence, homeland security, civil, and health markets. The company’s 33,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers.
Are you ready for your next career challenge?
The role of the Application Engineer is to manage and maintain a suite of applications across multiple domains supporting Geospatial capability, across the PITSM Programme. Working closely with Core Services and Normal Change teams to ensure the baseline is maintained, operational users have the most up to date applications to meet mission requirements and that obsolescence/ security issues are proactively managed.
Key Activities
Clearance Requirements:
Are you ready to make an impact? Begin your journey of a flourishing and meaningful career, share your CV with us today!
What we do for you:
At Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success, UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance.
We provide an employment package that attracts, develops and retains only the best in talent. Our reward scheme includes:
Commitment to Diversity:
We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture. We foster a sense of belonging, welcoming all perspectives and contributions, and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages please let us know, and we will respond in a way that best fits your needs.
Who We Are:
Leidos UK & EUROPE – we work to make the world safer, healthier, and more efficient through technology, engineering and science.
Leidos is a growing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services, our work in the United Kingdom includes addressing some of the most complex problems in defence, healthcare, government, safety and security, and transportation.
What Makes Us Different:
Purpose: you can use your passion and abilities at Leidos to keep the people you care about safe. We are at the forefront of machine learning, AI, cyber security and solutions. Using your skills in the technology frontline by helping to build a safer world. You can inspire change.
Collaboration: having flexibility to do your job is one of our core benefits, enabling you to become part of our extraordinary team. We have been empowering our people to work flexibly for years. Whether you work from home, the office or on customer sites, we will give you the digital tools and the flexibility to work smarter and align your needs and ours.
People: Leidos empowers people from every background to be themselves and gives you the tools to learn new skills by enabling growth whilst developing. We believe that extraordinary people need opportunities to grow, to be inspired and to inspire others. At Leidos, we invest in technical academies, career rotations and a career development plans that enhance your future.
At Leidos, we don’t want someone who “fits the mold”—we want someone who melts it down and builds something better. This is a role for the restless, the over-caffeinated, the ones who ask, “what’s next?” before the dust settles on “what’s now.”
If you’re already scheming step 20 while everyone else is still debating step 2… good. You’ll fit right in.
For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
£36,900.00-£46,100.00
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
About Leidos
Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.
Pay and Benefits
Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That’s why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available at www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits.
Securing Your Data
Beware of fake employment opportunities using Leidos’ name. Leidos will never ask you to provide payment-related information during any part of the employment application process (i.e., ask you for money), nor will Leidos ever advance money as part of the hiring process (i.e., send you a check or money order before doing any work). Further, Leidos will only communicate with you through emails that are generated by the Leidos.com automated system – never from free commercial services (e.g., Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail) or via WhatsApp, Telegram, etc. If you received an email purporting to be from Leidos that asks for payment-related information or any other personal information (e.g., about you or your previous employer), and you are concerned about its legitimacy, please make us aware immediately by emailing us at LeidosCareersFraud@leidos.com.
If you believe you are the victim of a scam, contact your local law enforcement and report the incident to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
Commitment to Non-Discrimination
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.
Derby/Nottingham and Surrounding areas £30,000- £37,000- OTE 40k+ Company van, overtime, holidays, Call out To apply for this opportunity you must have or hold the following: • Intruder Service Experience (Galaxy would be beneficial) • Fire Knowledge (Advanced, kentech and morley would be useful) • Knowledge of Intruder alarms • Excellent customer service skills • CCTV IP Knowledge also beneficial • Fault Finding experience • Installation experience • Ability to work by yourself and within a team • Full UK Driving license This company is a well-established organisation in the Fire and Security industry. They offer a wide range of services including design, maintenance and installation of intruder systems, CCTV, and access control. Due to planned growth within the installation and service department, they are now actively looking to recruit an experienced Security Service/Installation Engineers Benefits Include: • Company Vehicle • Mobile Phone • Stand by Allowances • Call out Allowances • Generous Annual Leave • Time and a half plus double time if called out on a Sunday If you are looking for a new challenge and want to work for a forward thinking leading company Who will continue to expand and develop. Please contact George on the listed number (phone number removed) or ideally e-mail with a copy of your current CV.
World Class Defence Organisation based in Stevenage is currently looking to recruit 3x Mechanical Systems Engineers / Architects on an initial 12 month contract. The role will be hybrid of being split between working from home and onsite.
This role would suit a candidate who comes from a strong background of working as a Mechanical Design Engineer, Mechanical Systems Engineer, Mechanical Architect or has experience of Mechanical Systems Architecture. A defence / aerospace background is ideal but not essential. DOORS experiencewould be great.
A background or knowledge of Systems Engineering and Supplier Management would be beneficial.
Contract Duration:12Months initially and then ongoing and long-term thereafter.
Hourly Rate:£65.00ph
Mechanical Systems Engineer / Architect Job Description:
We have an opportunity for an experienced Mechanical Architect to join the team. This exciting role is to gather and manage the missile mechanical architecture requirements to achieve missile performance, on time and on cost and overall layout vs compliance. This involves providing justification of the design and co-ordinate the verification evidence of missile performance to support certification.
The role is responsible for the delivery of the missile mechanical architecture requirements and typical responsibilities include:
Skillset/experience required:
Educated to degree level with 10 years experience or an equivalent qualification having obtained significant experience of mechanical engineering
Ability to technically manage internal & sub-contract activities
Strong leadership skills, able to establish a clear engineering vision
Good knowledge & experience of mechanical design, including: Static & Dynamic Analysis, Design for Environment Thermal Management
Good understanding of broader engineering disciplines, including:
Aerodynamics
Testability
Production
Experience developing proving logic and managing the generation of compliance evidence towards Certificates of Design
Experience across the full Product Life Cycle
Ability to influence senior managers and other stakeholders
Strong interpersonal and well developed communication skills (written & verbal)
Willingness to travel within UK and Europe
DOORS experience wouldbe great
Want to solve impactful problems?
Are you looking to make a positive impact in your work? Do you want to work in an environment where you can grow, while solving problems to help improve government, healthcare and private sector services?
If so, Opencast could be the place for you. We’re a growing technology consultancy that creates user-centred solutions with purpose.
The role
As a Business Analyst (Consultant), you’ll bring a depth of experience and expertise from working in large, complex organisations.
You’ll collaborate in multi-disciplinary teams with product managers, software developers, user researchers, designers and other specialists to tackle interesting problems and deliver meaningful solutions for clients.
You’ll build strong relationships with client stakeholders, understanding their needs and translating them into clear, actionable requirements.
You’ll also ensure that all work meets Opencast’s high standards, including quality, environmental and information security policies, as well as any applicable client requirements and standards.
Requirements
This role involves weekly on-site working. Applicants should be able to travel, as part of their normal daily commute, to client sites in one of the following locations: Newcastle, Leeds, or Manchester.
As attendance at these sites is a routine part of the role’s working pattern and involves frequent local travel, travel expenses are not covered.
Due to the nature of this role, you must either hold active Security Check (SC) clearance or be eligible and willing to undergo the clearance process.
SC clearance is granted in line with UK Government security vetting requirements. Typically, applicants are expected to have lived in the UK for at least five consecutive years prior to application to allow the appropriate background checks to be completed. Nationality and immigration status may also be considered as part of the vetting process.
If you are unsure whether you meet the eligibility criteria, we encourage you to review the guidance or discuss this with us before applying.
Essential experience
To succeed in this role, you’ll have experience as a Business Analyst and be able to demonstrate, with tangible examples, that you can:
With a significant proportion of our client base in the public sector, we are particularly interested in candidates with experience working in central or local government and/or the NHS.
Experience working to the GOV.UK Service Standards, including passing service standard assessments at different stages is highly desirable. If you have this experience, please demonstrate this on your CV to discuss at interview.
Essential consulting skills
In addition to business analysis skills, there are essential core skills you’ll need to be an Opencast consultant. You’ll need to demonstrate how you:
During the interview process, we’ll ask questions to explore your experience across these areas.
Salary
Consultant salary range: £45,000 - £52,000 per annum
What we offer
A competitive package including a 7% employer pension contribution, share options and a discretionary bonus. You’ll also benefit from flexible working hours (aligned to client commitments), 25 days’ holiday, and access to 3 annual “life happens” days to support unexpected situations. We also offer wellbeing support, ongoing professional development, volunteering opportunities and the chance to be part of a genuinely supportive team.
Where you’ll work
This role requires regular on-site attendance across our HQ, hub offices, client sites and home. Applicants must be able to commute to offices and client sites as part of their normal working arrangements, as travel is essential to fulfilling the responsibilities of the role.
We include you
We welcome candidates from all identities, attributes, ways of thinking and backgrounds to thrive in a career at Opencast. Our aim is for the diversity of our people to be reflected in the solutions we deliver, to help create a fairer society for all.
Interview
Interviews will be conducted via Microsoft Teams. We’re happy to make adjustments to support your needs.
Want to know more?
Visit our website or email careers@opencastsoftware.com
Certain Advantage are recruiting on behalf of our Trading client for an AI Engineer on a contract basis for 6-12 months initially in London. This will require some onsite days in Central London during the week. We are seeking Engineers skilled in python with a strong focus on GenAI AI and LLMs to lead the integration of cutting-edge language technologies into real-world applications. If you’re someone passionate about building scalable, responsible, and high-impact GenAI solutions then this could be for you! We’re looking for Engineers offering competent core technical skills in Python Programming, Data Handling with NumPy, Pandas, SQL, and use of Git/GitHub for version control. Any experience with these GenAI Use Cases would be relevant and desirable; Chatbots, copilots, document summarisation, Q&A, content generation. To help make your application as relevant as possible, please ensure your CV demonstrates any prior experience you have relating to the below; System Integration & Deployment Model Deployment: Flask, FastAPI, MLflow Model Serving: Triton Inference Server, Hugging Face Inference Endpoints API Integration: OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, Mistral APIs LLM Frameworks: LangChain, LlamaIndex – for building LLM-powered applications Vector Databases: FAISS, Weaviate, Pinecone, Qdrant (Nice-to-Have) Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG): Experience building hybrid systems combining LLMs with enterprise dataMLOps & Infrastructure MLOps: Model versioning, monitoring, logging Bias Detection & Mitigation Content Filtering & Moderation Explainability & Transparency LLM Safety & Guardrails: Hallucination mitigation, prompt validation, safety layers Azure Cloud Experience Collaboration & Delivery Cross-functional Collaboration: Working with software engineers, DevOps, and product teams Rapid Prototyping: Building and deploying MVPs Understanding of ML & LLM Techniques: To support integration, scaling, and responsible deployment Prompt Engineering: Designing and optimising prompts for LLMs across use cases Model Evaluation & Monitoring Evaluation Metrics: Perplexity, relevance, response quality, user satisfaction Monitoring in Production: Drift detection, performance degradation, logging outputs Evaluation Pipelines: Automating metric tracking via MLflow or custom dashboards A/B Testing: Experience evaluating GenAI features in production environments Does this sound like your next career move? Apply today! Working with Certain Advantage We go the extra mile to find the best people for the job. If you’re hunting for a role where you can make an impact and grow your career, we’ll work with you to find it. We work with businesses across the UK to find the best people in Finance, Marketing, IT and Engineering. If this job isn’t for you, head to (url removed) and register for job alerts and career guidance tips
Senior Embedded Software Engineer | £60-65k | Royston | Cambridge A highly innovative engineering team is looking to a Senior Embedded Software Engineer to bridge the gap between hardware innovation and intelligent control systems. You’ll be designing & developing extremely high spec instrumentation and be involved from a completely fresh concept through to test & production. This opportunity is unique as you’ll be writing code that directly shapes the direction of scientific discovery, and developing your embedded software skills in a high-spec environment that will take your skills to the next level. Senior Embedded Software Engineer – Responsibilities + Design, develop, and maintain embedded software for automation instruments and control systems + Work directly with electronics & mechanical engineers, acting as a bridge while architecting the software + Implement firmware to interface with sensors, actuators, pumps, temperature controllers, and communication peripherals Senior Embedded Software Engineer – Requirements + Proficiency with OOP & C++ + Demonstrable experience developing bare metal C code + Experience developing ARM Cortex architecture, ideally STM32s + Strong understanding of RTOS, ideally FreeRTOS Senior Embedded Software Engineer – Desirable experience + Experience with building custom Linux distributions using Yocto + Ability to read and understand schematic diagrams What’s in it for you? + Hybrid working – Mondays & Thursday in office + Private health insurance + 25 days holiday per year
Ready to keep quality at the heart of projects with impact?
Do you want to make a real impact by ensuring quality in services? Are you ready to grow your skills in a supportive, knowledge-sharing community where you can achieve your potential?
We’re a growing tech consultancy that creates user-centred solutions with purpose for our clients in government, healthcare and purpose-driven businesses. As a Quality Assurance consultant, you’ll ensure that quality assurance is considered from the start through testing, questioning and improving. You’ll apply your adaptability and communication skills across a variety of projects, working with a vibrant QA community that champions learning and knowledge sharing.
The role
You’ll work on public and private sector projects. You may be the sole software quality engineer on a project or work in a team.
Leading by example and promoting the Opencast approach, you’ll work in an agile environment across all testing types. You’ll collaborate with team members, clients and users to maintain quality and follow best practice. You’ll adapt to different tools and technologies, advising on the best and mentoring junior colleagues.
Applicants must either currently hold active Security Clearance (SC) or meet the eligibility criteria to obtain it.
Eligibility requires UK citizenship, continuous residence in the UK for the past five years, and no single absence from the UK exceeding 28 consecutive days.
Essential experience
To succeed in this role, you must have experience working as the sole software test engineer on a team.
In your CV and at interview, you’ll need to show experience of:
• writing, running and debugging functional automation tests on an integrated development environment (IDE) for front-end and API testing and frameworks like Cucumber BDD or Junit
• Recent hands on experience with Java and Selenium.
• presenting work to stakeholders
• managing defects and tasks through to resolution
• creating user stories and technical tasks from high-level requirements
• version control tools like git and peer review processes
• creating test plans and reports
• participating in E2E and UAT.
You’ll need a good understanding of:
• your working area and applying this to your role
• concepts and benefits of non-functional testing
• continuous integration tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI or CircleCI
• basic principles of programming paradigms, such as object-orientated and procedural programming
As well as QA skills, there are essential core skills you’ll need to be a great consultant.
In the interview, we will assess how you have:
• organised your workload to ensure you’re completing tasks efficiently to ensure quality is unaffected
• strong attention to detail
• a methodical approach to resolving complex problems
• respectfully challenged decisions or solutions
• communicated with technical and non-technical people
• been proactive and taken the initiative in seeking solutions to mitigate risk
• raised risks and issues through the correct tools.
Other helpful experience
Some areas of experience are not essential but relevant to the role:
• UK government service standards
• agile methodology.
If you don’t have experience, we can coach you if you join us.
Salary
Consultant salary range: £44,001 – £52,000 per annum
What we offer
A competitive package including a 7% employer pension contribution, share options and a discretionary bonus. You’ll also benefit from flexible working hours (aligned to client commitments), 25 days’ holiday, and access to 3 annual “life happens” days to support unexpected situations. We also offer wellbeing support, ongoing professional development, volunteering opportunities and the chance to be part of a genuinely supportive team.
Where you’ll work
This role requires regular on-site attendance across our HQ, hub offices, client sites and home. Applicants must be able to commute to offices and client sites as part of their normal working arrangements, as travel is essential to fulfilling the responsibilities of the role.
We include you
We welcome candidates from all identities, attributes, ways of thinking and backgrounds to thrive in a career at Opencast. Our aim is for the diversity of our people to be reflected in the solutions we deliver, to help create a fairer society for all.
Interview
Interviews will be conducted via Microsoft Teams. We’re happy to make adjustments to support your needs.
Want to know more?
Visit our website or email careers@opencastsoftware.com
We are not working with recruitment agencies on this vacancy. If you are interested in this position, please apply directly with Opencast.
Ready to grow your architectural expertise in a supportive team?
Do you want to work alongside expert architects and grow your skills in a supportive, collaborative environment? Are you ready to take on projects to open new opportunities?
If so, Opencast could be the place for you. We’re a growing tech consultancy that creates user-centred solutions with purpose for our clients in government, healthcare and purpose-driven businesses. As a Technical Architect you’ll contribute to software development projects, ensuring that the applications are efficient, performant and user-friendly. You’ll broaden your experience while connecting with experts across the practice, gaining and sharing insights, and benefitting from opportunities to grow your career.
The role
You’ll use your experience of defining and implementing software architectures using patterns and best-practice approaches to define detailed designs that form part of large enterprise-scale applications to meet our clients’ business outcomes.
You’ll collaborate with colleagues and take your solutions through architecture governance and generally contribute to the evolution of the assurance processes.
You’ll use your expertise to confidently lead and guide delivery teams to bring your design to life.
Requirements
As attendance at these sites is a routine part of the role’s working pattern and involves frequent local travel, travel expenses are not covered.
Due to the nature of this role, applicants must either currently hold active Security Check (SC) Clearance or be eligible to obtain it.
Eligibility typically requires UK citizenship and continuous residence in the UK for the past five years, with no single absence exceeding 28 consecutive days. As a result, we are unable to progress applications from candidates who do not meet these requirements.
Essential experience
You don’t need to have had the job title of technical architect before – but we will want you to demonstrate experience of technical architecture.
In your CV and at interview, we’ll ask you to show how you:
• develop and implement technical designs for modern enterprise-scale applications, utilising or defining effective patterns and technologies
• show ownership of designs and their evolution and transition into service
• have an excellent working knowledge of software development, programming languages, modelling languages and methodologies and know how to apply them
• identify and adhere to architecture quality attributes and/or non-functional requirements
• evaluate and introduce innovative new patterns, approaches and technologies into project teams
• can break down architectures into implemented components, utilising effective patterns and technologies that deliver business outcomes and address stakeholder needs
As well as technical architecture skills, there are essential core skills you’ll need to be a great consultant.
If selected for interview, we’ll ask you to show that you:
• build strong relationships with both business and technical stakeholders to provide technical direction and build consensus for your technical designs
• take a methodical and considered approach to solving problems
• take a collaborative and consultative approach to leading and guiding teams
• coach and mentor fellow team members
• keep up to date with new and emerging technology trends and their practical application
At the interview, we’ll ask you to describe how you approach architecture, deliver business outcomes and engage stakeholders. If you’re successful in your first interview, we’ll ask you back to develop and present a proposal from a case study and problem statement.
Desirable experience
Some areas of experience are not essential but relevant to the role:
• Experience with architecture frameworks (e.g. TOGAF, Zachman, Open Agile Architecture)
• Experience of delivering digital services and the GDS toolkit for the UK Government would be useful for many of our projects. It will be valuable (and essential for some contractor roles) if you are familiar with these activities and concepts:
o the Service Manual
o Agile delivery phases and
o Service Assessments
• A solid understanding of the benefit of user-centred design and understanding accessibility standards
• Good understanding of DevOps and in-life service management
If you have this experience, please show it on your CV and we can talk about it in the interview. If you don’t have this experience please do still apply, as we can coach you in these areas if you join us.
Salary
Senior consultant salary range: £70,001-£80,000 per annum
What we offer
A competitive package including a 7% employer pension contribution, share options and a discretionary bonus. You’ll also benefit from flexible working hours (aligned to client commitments), 25 days’ holiday, and access to 3 annual “life happens” days to support unexpected situations. We also offer wellbeing support, ongoing professional development, volunteering opportunities and the chance to be part of a genuinely supportive team.
Where you’ll work
This role requires regular on-site attendance across our HQ, hub offices, client sites and home. Applicants must be able to commute to offices and client sites as part of their normal working arrangements, as travel is essential to fulfilling the responsibilities of the role.
We include you
We welcome candidates from all identities, attributes, ways of thinking and backgrounds to thrive in a career at Opencast. Our aim is for the diversity of our people to be reflected in the solutions we deliver, to help create a fairer society for all.
Interview
Interviews will be conducted via Microsoft Teams. We’re happy to make adjustments to support your needs.
Want to know more?
Visit our website or email careers@opencastsoftware.com
Ready to grow your architectural expertise in a supportive team?
Do you want to work alongside expert architects and grow your skills in a supportive, collaborative environment? Are you ready to take on projects to open new opportunities?
If so, Opencast could be the place for you. We’re a growing tech consultancy that creates user-centred solutions with purpose for our clients in government, healthcare and purpose-driven businesses. As a Solution Architect, you’ll design strong but adaptable foundations for the people who use them – enabling robust, scalable and sustainable solutions. You’ll broaden your experience while connecting with experts across the practice, gaining and sharing insights, and benefitting from opportunities to grow your career.
The role
You’ll take end-to-end ownership of solutions for our clients, and align them to business outcomes, technology strategy, commercial/financial constraints, and architecture governance.
You’ll create solutions blueprints with views that express business, data, application, and technology, to address stakeholder needs.
You’ll effectively communicate the solution through governance boards, stakeholder groups, and delivery teams to bring the solution to life and assure effective delivery.
Ensure that work is carried out in accordance with Opencast’s quality, environmental, and information security policies and procedures, as well as applicable customer policies, standards, and procedures while working on client.
Requirements
Due to the nature of this role, applicants must either currently hold active Security Check (SC) Clearance or be eligible to obtain it.
Eligibility typically requires UK citizenship and continuous residence in the UK for the past five years, with no single absence exceeding 28 consecutive days. As a result, we are unable to progress applications from candidates who do not meet these requirements.
Essential experience
We’ll want you to demonstrate experience of solutions architecture. You don’t need to have had the job title of solutions architect before.
In your CV and interview, please show how you have:
• built strong relationships with senior stakeholders to understand their views.
• a strong foundation in software development, design, and delivery roles.
• enabled and assured a delivery team’s implementation of your solutions architectures effectively.
• worked with development life-cycle methodologies such as Agile software development, Scrum, and DevOps.
• a good working knowledge of architecture frameworks and modelling languages.
As well as solution architecture skills, there are essential core skills you’ll need to be a great consultant.
In the interview, please show how you:
• demonstrated the significant, tangible business benefits of the proposals you initiate for clients
• take a methodical and considered approach to solving problems
• take a collaborative and consultative approach to leading and guiding teams
• keep up to date with new and emerging technology trends and their practical application
In the interview, we’ll ask you to describe how you approach architecture, deliver business outcomes, and engage stakeholders. If you’re successful in the first interview, we’ll ask you back to present a proposal from a case study and problem statement.
Desirable experience
Some areas of experience are not essential but relevant to the role:
• Experienced with Architecture Frameworks (e.g. TOGAF, Zachman, Open Agile Architecture)
If you have this experience, please show it on your CV and we can talk about it in the interview.
If you don’t have this experience please do still apply, as we can coach you in these areas if you join us.
Salary
Senior consultant salary range: £70,000 - £80,000 per annum
What we offer
A competitive package including a 7% employer pension contribution, share options and a discretionary bonus. You’ll also benefit from flexible working hours (aligned to client commitments), 25 days’ holiday, and access to 3 annual “life happens” days to support unexpected situations. We also offer wellbeing support, ongoing professional development, volunteering opportunities and the chance to be part of a genuinely supportive team.
Where you’ll work
This role requires regular on-site attendance across our HQ, hub offices, client sites and home. Applicants must be able to commute to offices and client sites as part of their normal working arrangements, as travel is essential to fulfilling the responsibilities of the role.
We include you
We welcome candidates from all identities, attributes, ways of thinking and backgrounds to thrive in a career at Opencast. Our aim is for the diversity of our people to be reflected in the solutions we deliver, to help create a fairer society for all.
Interview
Interviews will be conducted via Microsoft Teams. We’re happy to make adjustments to support your needs.
Want to know more?
Visit our website or email careers@opencastsoftware.com
Check out this brand new role!
Ready to turn curiosity into impact?
Do you want to use research to shape services that make a real impact? Are you ready to bring curiosity and insight to projects that improve people’s lives?
If so, Opencast could be the place for you. We’re a growing tech consultancy that creates user-centred solutions with purpose for our clients in government, healthcare and purpose-driven businesses. As a User Researcher, you’ll uncover the needs and voices of people, work in multi-disciplinary teams to feed these needs into design decisions shape impactful services, and bring curiosity, pragmatism and insight to projects. You’ll enjoy, a supportive community whilst working across public sector clients, to solve real problems that impact people’s lives.
What you’ll do within our teams
You’ll suit this role if you:
If you have any of this experience, please show it on your CV and in the interview.
Check out this brand new role!
Ready to turn curiosity into impact?
Do you want to use research to shape services that make a real impact? Are you ready to bring curiosity and insight to projects that improve people’s lives?
If so, Opencast could be the place for you. We’re a growing tech consultancy that creates user-centred solutions with purpose for our clients in government, healthcare and purpose-driven businesses. As a User Researcher, you’ll uncover the needs and voices of people, work in multi-disciplinary teams to feed these needs into design decisions shape impactful services, and bring curiosity, pragmatism and insight to projects. You’ll enjoy, a supportive community whilst working across public sector clients, to solve real problems that impact people’s lives.
The role
UK Security Clearance (existing SC clearance or eligibility) is a requirement for our current permanent opportunities.
You’ll conduct research which supports the development of a user centred service. You’ll work closely with other user centred design roles, such as Service Designer, Content Designers, and Interaction Designers, to solve complex and interesting problems for our clients.
You’ll ensure that work is carried out in accordance with Opencast’s quality, environmental, and information security policies and procedures, as well as applicable customer policies, standards, and procedures while working on client.
If you take a leadership role in projects, have a variety of project experience and support more junior colleagues working in design and delivery research you may be better suited to our Senior User Researcher role.
Essential experience
To succeed in this role, you need experience of delivering user research to a delivery team.
· In your CV and interview(s), please show how you have:
· chosen from a range of research methods to design the right research approach for the project phase
· produced the required ethics and governance documentation and materials for research activity
· recruited a wide range of participants in line with GDPR and MRS guidelines
· identified key themes, user needs, personas, and design feedback through analysis
· produced clear and concise user research deliverables to meet the needs of different audiences
· worked to GDS standards
· worked in agile delivery teams
In addition to user research skills, there are essential core skills you’ll need to work effectively as a consultant.
In the interview, please show how you have:
· planned your own tasks to achieve the objectives of your project
· respectfully challenged decisions or solutions you don’t agree with
· collaborated well with your colleagues, teammates and clients
In your interview we’ll ask you questions based around these experiences. We’ll also ask you to present a piece of work which demonstrates these skills and experiences.
If you have any of this experience, please show it on your CV and in the interview.
Salary
Where you’ll work
Your working time at Opencast will be split between multiple locations, including from our HQ and hub locations, client site or home. Travel is part of life at Opencast, and takes in account requirements of your work, our clients and your team.
We include you
We welcome candidates from all identities, attributes, ways of thinking and backgrounds to thrive in a career at Opencast. Our aim is for the diversity of our people to be reflected in the solutions we deliver, to help create a fairer society for all.
Interview
Job interviews are on Microsoft Teams. We’ll make any adjustments to help you.