Lab Engineer

Job description

Eagle Lab Engineer

As a Barclays Eagle Lab Engineer, you'll be responsible for the development of new initiatives, in partnership with colleagues and customers. Through innovative collaboration, you'll be working with your ecosystem and the wider Eagle Lab team to achieve our goals to accelerate UK Businesses, provide digital empowerment and collaborative innovation for everyone, utilising the digital fabrication equipment and work spaces available to you across the Eagle Labs estate.

About us:
The Strategic Transformation function creates opportunities that both change what we do to help customers, clients and our communities and demonstrate how profoundly we need to change how we work, demonstrated through initiatives such as Eagle Labs. The team serves as ambassadors of and advocates for the transformation of Barclays UK to internal and external stakeholders, making Barclays the most accessible and inclusive organisation in the UK.

As a Barclays Eagle Lab Engineer, your main responsibilities will involve:
• Assisting the Eagle Lab Manager with the day to day operations of one or more Barclays Eagle labs, while being ahead of the trends in digital fabrication and emerging and innovative technologies
• Maintaining and performing 1st line technical repairs to digital fabrication equipment and workspaces, for example 3-D printers and laser cutters
• Co-ordinating local and regional events, stakeholder management, delivering induction sessions for new members and guiding visitors through the facilities
• Supporting the development and on-going maintenance of an ecosystem of business start-ups, scale ups, corporate entities, local education providers and numerous other groups and individuals
• Promoting the variety of products to Eagle Lab visitors and creating advocates by developing and delivering innovative and creative induction sessions
• Identifying costs and benefits with a view to implementing these new technologies into the Eagle Labs to benefit residents and co-workers, and to promote Eagle Labs externally to drive new business
• Identifying ways to promote your Eagle Lab externally, treating the lab as your own business and building your own brand as a fabrication expert within the local ecosystem

As a Barclays Eagle Lab Engineer, your skills and qualifications will include:
• The ability to describe basic concepts of prototyping and modelling for application development
• An understanding of digital fabrication and effectively being able to articulate this concept to a wide range of stakeholders. Strong stakeholder and customer relationship management skills are essential
• The ability to practically apply and share technical knowledge and skills through coaching and mentoring, while adapting your delivery style to suit the audience
• Experience of working in a fast paced, project environment and experience in commercial negotiation
• Proven questioning and analytical skills to identify improvements to equipment and the Eagle Lab proposition, alongside proven problem solving and decision making skills for complex queries
• A working knowledge of OSX, Windows, and preferably Ubuntu with experience with microelectronics (e.g. Raspberry Pi, Arduino)

The Benefits:
Our customers deserve the best. The same goes for our employees. That's why at Barclays you'll receive a range of benefits that include a competitive salary, flexible hours and all the tools, technology and support you need to succeed. That's not all. We'll also offer you private healthcare, childcare savings, and employer discounts. All this, plus a unique company spirit that encourages people to achieve their best.

Our Culture:
All we do is shaped by the five values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship. The values inform the foundations of our relationships with customers and clients, but they also shape how we measure and reward the performance of our employees. Simply put, success is not just about what you achieve, but about how you achieve it.

Dynamic working gives everyone at Barclays the opportunity to integrate professional and personal lives, if you have a need for flexibility then please discuss this with the hiring manager.

Diversity:
We will consider applications from job share applicants.

At Barclays, we recruit based on merit and are committed to promoting diversity throughout our organisation.

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Ready to apply?

There are up to five stages to our application process:
1. Application: On your application we'll ask for information like your contact details, education and work experience. You'll also be required to upload a CV, so it's a good idea to have it ready.
2. Online Assessment: We'll then ask you to complete an online assessment exercise which we will send to you via email. Our assessments are carefully designed to measure the skills and capabilities necessary to be successful in our roles, but they'll also provide you with some insight into what our roles entail.
3. Application Review: We will review your application along with your responses to the online assessment exercise. Depending on the type of role you are applying for, we may contact you to arrange a brief telephone interview to discuss your experience in more detail.
4. Interview: If your application is progressed, we'll invite you to attend a face-to-face interview. We want you to be free to choose an interview time that suits you, so we'll provide some options and ask you to select your preferred timeslot.
5. Outcome: We will keep you updated throughout the process. If you attend an interview, we'll be in touch within five working days of all interviews being completed to advise you of the outcome.

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We encourage applicants to apply as early as possible in the recruitment period. Barclays recruitment periods can and may vary. We reserve the right to remove this advert during the recruitment process.