Senior Technician

at  Dyson

SUMMARY

Salary:
Competitive
Team:
Science and Research
Location:
United Kingdom - Malmesbury Office

ABOUT US

Dyson is a global technology enterprise. We solve the problems others choose to ignore, with surprising new inventions that defy convention and simply work better. We are driven by progress and thrive on the challenge of relentless improvement. We are growing fast, and our ambition is huge - more categories, more locations, and more people. At Dyson we are encouraged to think differently, challenge convention and be unafraid to make mistakes. We are engineers, creative, collaborative, practical and enthusiastic, but most of all, we are hugely passionate about what we do. Dyson offers a unique opportunity for talented individual who wish to work alongside technical specialists and highly motivated creative people, to create products which fulfil our ambition of being truly different and better than our competitors.

Dyson requires a skilled and highly motivated technician to help it achieve its current and long-term battery ambitions and support its RDD lab activities. You will:

• Be heavily focused on hands on laboratory work and receive necessary training to understand the R&D process for Li-ion batteries.
• Work within an energetic research environment focused on innovation.
• Assist with the fabrication and testing of R&D test cells with a high degree of reproducibility.
• Support with the design and production of cell components, including the optimisation of equipment where necessary.
• Carry out routine physical and chemical analysis on new samples.
• Ensure all the relevant documents; process, COSHH, methodology and data records are updated as required.
• Ensure safe disassembly of test cells, as well as disposal and storage of spent chemicals.
• Assist monitoring and replenishment of lab chemicals and other consumables items as required.
• Take responsibility for organising routine maintenance, stock checks and replenishment and ordering of laboratory consumables

Dyson offers a unique opportunity for a motivated and dynamic Senior Technician in the Energy Storage team within Dyson’s Research, Design and Development (RDD) department; based at the Malmesbury Campus, Wiltshire, UK.
Responsibilities of the role:

Dyson requires a skilled and highly motivated technician to help it achieve its current and long-term battery ambitions and support its RDD lab activities. You will:

• Be heavily focused on hands on laboratory work and receive necessary training to understand the R&D process for Li-ion batteries.
• Work within an energetic research environment focused on innovation.
• Assist with the fabrication and testing of R&D test cells with a high degree of reproducibility.
• Support with the design and production of cell components, including the optimisation of equipment where necessary.
• Carry out routine physical and chemical analysis on new samples.
• Ensure all the relevant documents; process, COSHH, methodology and data records are updated as required.
• Ensure safe disassembly of test cells, as well as disposal and storage of spent chemicals.
• Assist monitoring and replenishment of lab chemicals and other consumables items as required.
• Take responsibility for organising routine maintenance, stock checks and replenishment and ordering of laboratory consumables.