As a Joining Solutions Engineer at Atlas Copco, you'll be at the heart of innovation, driving cutting-edge solutions that redefine how we approach joining processes. This role offers a unique opportunity to collaborate with top-tier clients and industry experts, ensuring that our Self-pierce Rivet (SPR) joining solutions not only meet, but exceed expectations.

Key Responsibilities

Role Summary

The Joining Solutions Engineer ensures superior customer Self-Pierce Rivet (SPR) mechanical joining solutions that emphasize quality and integrity, supporting clients' platform and program goals. The role requires planning, coordinating, and executing customer application requests and providing data-driven engineering solutions aligned with Atlas Copco’s global standards.

Key Responsibilities

Customer-Centric Joining Solutions:

• • Provide high-quality joining solutions that support the customer’s application requirements, ensuring these meet platform and engineering standards.

Process Improvement & Best Practices:

• • Implement Atlas Copco’s guidelines to drive process improvements, maintaining alignment and consistency across global teams using joint stream databases.

Application Requirements & SPR Expertise:

• • Lead Customer Center (CC) requests with a thorough understanding of application-specific needs and SPR (Self-Pierce Riveting) joining requirements.

Testing & Validation:

• • Execute both destructive and non-destructive testing methods for robust validation, ensuring product and process quality.

Data Presentation & Reporting:

• • Present technical data concisely and accurately, providing clear insights and actionable recommendations for internal and customer stakeholders.

Global Collaboration:

• • Coordinate with international labs and departments to maintain high standards, consistency, and knowledge-sharing across regions.

Program Direction & Leadership:

• • Direct and lead technicians and other resources to achieve program outcomes aligned with customer requirements.
  • Oversee technical teams in executing tasks that ensure high-quality, timely project outcomes in line with the program's architectural vision.

Health, Safety, and Compliance:

• • Ensure compliance with COSHH and MSDS requirements in the safe handling and storage of chemicals in lab and production environments.
  • Register chemicals on the digital COSHH register and maintain appropriate documentation for hazardous materials.

Professional Development:

• • Attend training courses and actively seek CPD activities to continue professional development.
  • Carry out any other reasonable duties as requested by the Company.

Essentional Qualifications/Person Specification:

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or a related STEM discipline, or currently enrolled on a relevant part-time degree program.

Skills:

• Proficiency in technical documentation, data analysis, and Microsoft Office Suite.
• Strong communication skills for clear, concise reporting.
• Proficient in the use of workshop and laboratory equipment

Desirable Qualifications/Person Specification:

Additional Qualifications:

• Professional certifications (e.g., Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, or relevant engineering certifications).
• Familiarity with project management methodologies (e.g., Agile, Waterfall).

Experience:

• Previous experience in the engineering or automotive sector.
• Exposure to advanced joining techniques or materials science.

• Drive Customer Success

The ability to build and maintain strong customer relationships with any new customers as well as the existing customer base.

Must strive to maintain the high-quality delivery of product and service to the customers to retain customer satisfaction

• Commit to Sustainable Growth

Ensure that work is conducted in an ethical way and is line with the Atlas Copco; The Way We Do Things and the Business Code of Practice

Proactively works to create a safe and healthy environment for employees whilst considering impact on the environment

• Improve Business Results

Continuously strive to improve business results and KPI’s without creating inefficiencies within the processes

Embrace change for the benefit of the organisation.

Deliver objectives within potentially tough environments using the resources available

• Lead Myself

To take accountability for all activities within the remit of the job role

As well as look at personal development, look at developing individuals within the team

To build confident collaborations within Atlas Copco and any relevant external organisations

• Focus on Team Success

Work within the team and outside the team to look for better ways of delivering required results

Share knowledge with others as well as being open minded when receiving new ideas and methods from others

You will be part of an exciting and collaborative environment which is designed to enable you to reach your optimum potential. Our offices are modern and our benefits reflect that we are a cohesive team where your physical and mental wellbeing is nurtured.

Here’s just some of what we offer:

• Excellent company pension
• Private medical care
• Health cash plan

• Subsidised study programme
• Ambassador Programme where you get the opportunity to shape the future of our Company
• Costco Membership 

Wellbeing initiatives such as

• Cycle to work scheme
• Summer and Christmas parties
• Fitness Classes
• Free tea and coffee machines
• Discounts on numerous shops, restaurants, holidays and much more

Within Atlas Copco people make change happen so how you think will set you apart.  We believe that an active growth mindset is empowering and will enable us to deliver to the best of our ability and you will be encouraged and supported to act to identify ‘a better way’ to make products and people’s quality of life better.  If you are the right person then you will instinctively know that the technical skills of our team are enhanced by their soft skills and that we need both to reach our optimal performance.