Embedded Firmware Lead Engineer

About the job

About the job 

“We are always looking for exceptional talent to join our inspiring multinational family and right now we are seeking to recruit a skilled Embedded Firmware Lead Engineer with 5 to 10 years’ experience, who is familiar with AGILE processes and planning software like JIRA, and with a strong aptitude for developing digital tools, to help us develop world-class testing equipment coupled to digitised services.

You will lead the firmware development team and be responsible for providing robust embedded firmware in industry standard languages for both new product development and sustaining existing products through their life-cycles.

As a talented design engineer with manufacturing knowledge, you will lead on all new product development programs, providing correction, recommendation and decision-making on product strategies that demonstrate industry best practice. You will provide consultative support to senior management in long-range planning in research and advancement of firmware and software.

Specific activities include the consistent delivery of firmware tasks against project plans, developing 100% sprint goal completion throughout project duration, and continually improve a Megger coding standard for the UK with the potential to adopt Group wide.

The role will develop quickly, and we will support you to acquire new skills. Megger is growing and will give you clear career progression routes, we are also developing an ambitious digital strategy. We want a technical leader with interest and ability in digitalisation: implementing platforms to share firmware architecture solutions cross enterprise; placing analytical data acquired by our equipment on the cloud and devising security protocols

For more detailed information about the role, please see the documents available tab at the bottom of this advert.

If you think this opportunity feels like the right one for you, then we would like to hear from you!

Benefits for this role include

• Company and performance-related bonus
• Relocation 
• Private Medical Insurance 
• Life assurance payment equal to two times your annual salary 
• MyMegger benefits offering discounts and savings on hundreds of products and experience

Our Company

At Megger, our aim is to ensure everyone can live confidently and work safely, with the energies which power our world. We do this by designing and manufacturing safe, reliable, easy-to use portable electrical test equipment.

Our customers are at the heart of everything we do. This drives our innovation because we not only make it our business to understand what our Customers really need but what it takes to be the partner who helps them perform at their best!

As a global operator, Megger is strategically located in over 100 countries, employing in excess of 1,500 employees. We are backed by world-leading support and expertise in the delivery of our 360-degree Customer Service including - software, product and tools design; onsite training; repairs; testing; and consultancy.

We are the one-stop shop, for electrical testing equipment and you can be part of it!

Our UK headquarters is located in Dover, Kent, more aptly described as the beautiful Garden of England, with stunning views of Dover Castle, the Kent coast line and beyond to France.  

Talk to us about Flexible working. Megger support flexible working for all employees and the right to request flexible working from day one of employment, with a limit of one request per 12-months.

We promote and cultivate an inclusive culture maximising talent, skills and diversity within our workforce. We embrace difference and welcome all applications.

You can apply using the apply for this job now button at the top of this advert, alternatively forward your CV and covering letter to Ukrecruitment@megger.com