Chief Engineer – Development & Research

at  iCOMAT

iCOMAT is an ambitious advanced manufacturing company with game changing technology and critically people with the imagination and drive to grow a business that will enable manufacturers in the aeronautics, automotive and space sectors to reduce significantly the weight and improve the efficiency of their products
At the heart of ICOMAT’s process lies a robotic tape laying system that uses our patented process, Rapid Tow Shearing. The development of the system draws upon multiple engineering disciplines (mechanical, robotic, automation and production) and this role will be responsible for the development of state-of-the-art tape laying systems and cells, that incorporate iCOMAT’s RTS process with a focus on driving improvements across process reliability and speed.
The role will continually drive innovation in our core engineering disciplines and as the company evolves, it will expand to include additional facets of engineering around factory/production automation (i.e. vision systems for inspection, pick-and-place systems), with aim of developing the world’s first lights-out factories for composite materials.