Project Engineer - AMIC Digital Factory - Digitalisation Team

Job description
AMIC - A £100M investment through the Belfast Region City Deal - is a collaborative, innovative powerhouse of advanced manufacturing set to elevate our region globally.

We are supporting economic growth and prosperity for Northern Ireland by creating high quality jobs and increasing inward investment through high value manufacturing innovation clusters.

We are driving industrial transformation, paving the way for future technologies and competing globally with a more sustainable focus.

When you join our team, you will have access to the latest advanced industrial technologies and have the opportunity to grow and develop as an engineer and technology leader. Our mission is to provide you with the environment to innovate and create impact.

Our team of experienced staff has core capabilities in digitalising manufacturing, smart design, sustainable polymers & composites and nanotechnologies & photonics. We are excited to be expanding the team throughout 2026 and beyond.

We are seeking to recruit a digitalisation project engineer who wants to develop and support innovation through applying their knowledge to the challenges of industry and society.

Successful candidates will apply their knowledge and experience of methods and processes to support AMIC's advanced manufacturing activities, developing and implementing methods and processes to meet industry need, fuelling a pipeline of innovation activity for AMIC's state-of the-art "Factory of the Future" facility, and contributing to solving wider societal challenges. In conjunction with senior engineering colleagues, you will work collaboratively with academia, technology providers, national technology centres, and industry to deliver key projects focused on Advanced Manufacturing activities. You will help monitor, develop and implement best practices in the application of your engineering discipline within advanced manufacturing, including software, hardware and delivery.

About The Person

The successful candidate must have, and your application should clearly demonstrate that you meet the following essential criteria:

• Honours degree or equivalent in a relevant engineering, science, or related discipline OR minimum HND in a similar discipline with recent significant and relevant industrial experience.
• Recent experience in at least one of the following:
  • Embedded/Edge/Sensor devices/technology *
  • Cyber security *
  • Virtualisation/Infrastructure/Networking *
  • AI - experience must be applicable to manufacturing use cases *
  • Manufacturing Software Systems *
  • Digital Twin Technologies *
  • Cloud technologies - particularly in relation to cloud based databases, data analytics, data visualisation. *
• Relevant experience in the Manufacturing Domain *
  * can be demonstrated with industry experience or relevant projects.
• Experience of using research/industrial tools and techniques resulting in high quality projects and technical reports.
• Demonstrable evidence of delivering projects to agreed deadlines and within budget.

To be successful at shortlisting stage, please ensure you clearly evidence in your application how you meet the essential and, where applicable, desirable criteria listed in the Candidate Information.

This post is available for 3 years. Fixed term contract posts are available for the stated period in the first instance but in particular circumstances may be renewed or made permanent subject to availability of funding.

What we offer:

Beyond a competitive salary, the University offers an attractive benefits package including a holiday entitlement of up to 8.4 weeks a year, pension schemes and development opportunities. We support staff wellbeing with flexible working options, work-life balance initiatives and support for physical and mental health. You can find more detail on all of this and more at https://www.qub.ac.uk/directorates/HumanResources/pay-reward-andbenefits

Queen's University is committed to promoting equality of opportunity to all. We subscribe to Equality Charter Marks such as the Diversity Charter Mark NI and Athena Swan and have established staff networks such as iRise (Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and International Staff Network) and PRISM (LGBTQ+) which help us progress equality. For further information on our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, please visit www.qub.ac.uk/diversity .

If you are an international applicant and don't already hold a visa that permits you to take up the role you are applying for, please use the information provided on our website to self-assess whether the University is likely to be able to support a visa application - http://go.qub.ac.uk/internationalstaffsupport