Software Manager

Job description
We are currently hiring for the position of Software Manager, which is a permanent role based in Severn Beach, Bristol. In this managerial role, you will have the opportunity to shape our products as part of the engineering management team, leading and nurturing a team of professionals. We are looking for a visionary leader who can inspire their team to expand their skills, collaborate with colleagues to develop cutting-edge, world-class products, and provide exceptional support to our valued customers. If you are passionate about driving innovation and fostering growth, we want to hear from you!

Key Responsibilities:
• Develop and drive our software strategy. Recommend new tools and techniques to continue improving product quality and the development process. Identify opportunities to improve systems and procedures that will keep software engineering at OIPT at the forefront of technology. Scope and specify the developments and projects needed to meet these strategic goals.
• Carry out line management for a team of software engineers, including PDR reviews in accordance with company policies and providing guidance and technical support.
• Organise our software resources to develop solutions on time, cost and quality, including capacity planning for the team.
• Manage and present key performance indicators for your team and present them to engineering management monthly.
• Ensure the quality of all software produced by the team is high use agreed software design methodologies and tools to ensure robust and fully documented products are developed.
• Work closely with the Engineering management team to proactively develop customer intimacy among all our engineers and collaborate with other parts of the engineering team and business.
• Undertake customer site visits if required as our most senior software representative.
• Work with customers, the process engineering team and the wider design engineering team to agree on systems specifications for software components.

Education / Qualifications:
• Degree qualified in a computing and/or physics-related discipline
• Extensive software experience (includes C++, C, assembler, and PLC programming experience)
• Significant experience in management responsibilities for a development team

Professional Skills/ Abilities:
• Significant practical experience in PC-based C++ development in a real-time control environment. PLC and/or C (embedded real time). C# (Windows Forms or WPF). Borland environment would be an advantage.
• Experience in developing complex software applications to deadlines, ideally within a commercial or industrial environment.
• Developing and delivering a software roadmap of work, balancing priority with commercial impact
• Experience in leadership in an organisation running Agile Development and DevOps

Desirable Technical Knowledge:
• UML
• TCP and UDP socket communications,
• Serial Protocols (RS232/RS485),
• Field bus systems (Profibus/DeviceNET/Ethernet-based),
• Motion Control (Servos and Steppers),
• PLC (programmable logic controllers)
• Embedded PC systems
• HMI (Human/Machine interface) design.
• Continuous integration (and unit testing), Source Control.

Personal Qualities:
• A confident leader who can communicate well with those in their team, their peers and management.
• A good problem solver and troubleshooter.
• Talented logical thinker.
• Positive and enthusiastic about developing functionally correct software.
• Attention to detail.
• Keen to learn new skills and embrace working in an environment of rapid development and change.

At Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology, we provide tools for the engineering of micro- and nano-structures, with customers using our process solutions to research and produce materials and semiconductors vital for everything from medical devices and diagnostics to electric cars and quantum computers.

Benefits:

In addition to a competitive starting salary, Oxford Instruments also offers structured career development opportunities, a good work-life balance, private healthcare, a share incentive plan, 25 days annual leave, half-days on Fridays, a defined contribution Group Personal Pension Plan, and a flexible benefits package that you can tailor to your own requirements.

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