Development Engineer

Job Description

About Us

Domino Printing Sciences provides industrial printing expertise and reliable solutions to help the world’s manufacturers be sustainable and cut waste, while attracting, informing, and protecting consumers. Global manufacturers across the food and beverage, life sciences, personal care, agrochemical, and industrial sectors trust Domino to support them with innovative coding, marking, and digital printing solutions. Our products help ensure the success of manufacturers’ products by allowing them to create differentiated packaging, protect against counterfeiting, and ensure governmental and regulatory compliance. From best before dates on eggs, to serialised identifying codes on medicines, to batch codes on electronic components, to competition codes in confectionery, Domino helps to enable product safety, improved supply chain management and brand protection.

About the role

As part of the Image Quality team, you will be assessing the breakup of droplets using imaging hardware. You will be working on supporting the development of waveforms for driving industrial inkjet printers. The data collected will need to be collated and presented to the team to determine the best outcome. This will work closely with hardware developers as well as the ink development team. In your role you will be generating print samples alongside capturing images of inkjet breakup to determine whether the quality metrics are being met. This data will allow the generation and release of new waveforms for different inks and hardware solutions.

Ideally you will have some software experience so that you can contribute to improving the automation of the waveform development process. This would include automating hardware, such as linear slides and cameras, as well as creating scripts to process data and generate reports.

The output of this work will enhance the image quality and reliability of Domino’s digital printing leading to an uplift in capability of the press.

We are very open to flexible working and this role is able to performed in a hybrid way with a mixture of home and in the lab working due the nature of the role, however we are unable to offer a fully remote opportunity.

About you

We are looking for an individual who has a degree in science/ engineering or the equivalent, someone who enjoys lots of practical experimentation, has the ability to write strong technical reports and procedures. You are comfortable using appropriate software tools for numerical data analysis and have good analytical skills. Having experience in Automation scripting using MatLab would be advantageous. We are looking for someone with a collaborative mindset and who has a desire to continuously learn and grow.

What you can expect

As a talented individual working at Domino you can expect a competitive salary and a generous benefits package, including 25 days basic holiday (with the opportunity to buy and sell), a discretionary bonus, life insurance, medical insurance and access to the Green Car Scheme to name a few! We recognise that flexible homeworking can be beneficial and at Domino we want people to feel able to own the way they work. For many of us this, this might be coming into the office most days, just a couple of times a week, or perhaps fortnightly. What’s important is that we enable you get the best from us and for us to get the best from you, whether that’s from your home office or on site, as long as we continue to collaborate and enable great outcomes for our customers. We are a highly successful company, we’re large enough to offer career development opportunities yet small enough for your contribution to be readily recognised and rewarded. Our culture is built on our core values, Collaboration, Listening, Expertise, Ambition and Responsibility. We think Domino is a great place to work and if you join us, you’ll find yourself part of organisation which really cares about their people, as well as offering challenging and rewarding careers.