Workshop Technician

Cambridge Consultants
United Kingdom
Last month
Posted
17 Apr 2026 (Last month)

Overview

The Prototype Development Workshop provides mechanical manufacturing expertise across a wide variety of product development in all sectors. With access to a suite of manufacturing equipment including manual lathes and mills, 3 and 5 axis CNC, Laser cutter and 3D printers providing component and sub-assembly manufacture for prototype and low volume deliverable hardware.

The Role

Here at Cambridge Consultants, we pride ourselves on having first class facilities enabling our Engineers to fulfil their project aspirations. To further enhance these facilities, we require a dedicated Workshop technician to join the team and add value in a variety of different areas

The ideal candidate should be organised with an eye for detail. Someone who can be both proactive and take direction.

The remit is wide and varied and will evolve as the department grows. The key aspects of the role include:

  • Provision of consumables
  • Tool and equipment inventory control
  • General housekeeping
  • Management of project storage
  • Management of tool loans
  • Controlling Chemical waste disposal
  • General equipment maintenance
  • User training
  • Assisting engineers with queries they may have
  • Provide practical advice and demonstrating appropriate techniques to Engineers.

Full training will be provided where required

What you can bring

Essential

  • 3D printing experience / exposure
  • Strong communication skills (verbal & written) as well as organisational, collaboration, and problem-solving skills
  • Service orientated mindset

Desirable

  • Experience working with Laser Cutters
  • Experience in defining and documenting process and procedure
  • Experience of working to ISO9001 and ISO13485

Related Jobs

View all jobs
Spotlight

Machine Learning Engineer - National Security (Gloucestershire)

Mind Foundry Gloucester, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
On-site Clearance Required

Solutions Architect, Solutions Architecture, UK

Amazon London, United Kingdom
Permanent

Account Manager

PolyAI London, United Kingdom
On-site

Senior Digital Electronics/FPGA Engineer

Cambridge Consultants United Kingdom

AI Deployment Engineer | Codex

OpenAI London, United Kingdom
On-site

AI Deployment Engineer, Codex | Sydney

OpenAI United Kingdom
Hybrid

AI Deployment Engineer | Codex

OpenAI United Kingdom
Hybrid

Industry Insights

Discover insightful articles, industry insights, expert tips, and curated resources.

Where to Advertise Machine Learning Jobs in the UK (2026 Guide)

Where to advertise machine learning jobs UK in 2026: the specialist boards and communities that reach ML, MLOps and deep learning engineering talent. The candidate pool is small, highly specialised and in demand across AI labs, financial services, healthcare, autonomous systems and consumer technology simultaneously. Machine learning engineers and researchers move between roles through professional networks, conference communities and specialist platforms — not general job boards where ML roles compete with unrelated software engineering positions for the same audience. This guide, published by MachineLearningJobs.co.uk, covers where to advertise machine learning roles in the UK in 2026, how the main platforms compare, what employers should expect to pay, and what the data says about hiring across different role types.

Machine Learning Jobs UK 2026: What to Expect Over the Next 3 Years

Machine Learning Jobs UK 2026: roles, salaries and the MLOps, LLM and generative AI hiring trends shaping UK ML careers over the next three years. Machine learning has undergone a transformation that few technology disciplines can match. In the space of three years it has moved from a specialism sitting at the edges of most organisations' technology strategies to a capability that sits at the centre of them. The tools have changed, the expectations have shifted, and the range of industries treating machine learning as a core business function — rather than an experimental one — has expanded dramatically. For job seekers, this creates both opportunity and complexity in roughly equal measure. The machine learning jobs market of 2026 is significantly larger than it was three years ago, but it is also significantly more demanding. Employers have developed more sophisticated expectations, the technical bar for specialist roles has risen, and the landscape of tools, frameworks, and architectural patterns that practitioners are expected to know has broadened considerably. The candidates who will thrive over the next three years are those who understand where the discipline is heading — which specialisms are attracting the most investment, which technologies are reshaping what machine learning engineers and researchers are expected to build, and how the definition of a machine learning career is evolving beyond the model-building core toward a much wider range of roles across the full ML lifecycle. This article breaks down what the UK machine learning jobs market is likely to look like through to 2028 — covering the titles emerging right now, the technologies driving employer demand, the skills that will matter most, and how to position your career ahead of the curve.