The Role
As an R&D Engineer in our R&D team, you’ll have the unique opportunity to work on multiple high-impact projects from various industries, helping to shape the future of innovation. Rather than focusing on a single project, you’ll be part of a dynamic, changing environment where you’ll collaborate with different companies on a wide variety of exciting and complex challenges.
Key Responsibilities
The Process Engineer will be responsible for designing, building and maintaining laser systems at Goodfellow. In addition, they will handle prototyping opportunities, developing process parameters, programmes and documentation with the goal of progressing these opportunities into production. They will also be expected to stay current with applicable technologies and make recommendations for their integration and implementation.
About the Goodfellow Group
Founded in London in 1946, Goodfellow is a global leader in advanced materials, enabling innovation globally across high-tech sectors including aerospace, medical research, electronics, and green energy. With a portfolio of more than 170,000 specialist products, we support scientists, engineers, and manufacturers worldwide in transforming ideas into real world solutions.
Today, the Goodfellow Group combines global reach with deep materials expertise. Operating from key hubs across Europe, the United States, and China, we provide advanced materials, precision engineering, and world-class testing capabilities to organisations at the forefront of research and technology. Backed by Battery Ventures, we continue to invest in growth through international expansion and strategic acquisitions.
Our operations are centred around three key manufacturing and scientific hubs:
Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire (UK) – Our headquarters and Advanced Materials Centre, where more than 170,000 advanced materials and reference standards are stocked, processed, and distributed to customers worldwide.
Columbia, USA – Our Precision Engineering Centre, an advanced laser microfabrication and manufacturing facility delivering highly specialised engineering solutions.
Switzerland – Our Swiss Competence Centre, providing world-leading materials testing, characterisation, and analytical capabilities.
In addition, we maintain sales offices in Pittsburgh (USA) and Shanghai (China), ensuring close support for customers in key global markets.
Across the Goodfellow Group, we are united by a commitment to technical excellence, collaboration, and sustainable innovation. Whether your passion lies in science, engineering, technology, or business, you’ll find opportunities here to develop your career while helping shape the future of advanced materials.
Our Values
All employees are required to live by the company values:
Continuous Improvement:
- Acknowledge the shortcoming and limitations within yourself and your team and take action to mitigate these.
- Seek ways to improve and enhance Goodfellow working practices.
- Be receptive to new ideas and practices to improve the results within your team.
- Implement solutions and changes positively and encourage the same within your team.
- Encourage your team to provide solutions not problems.
- Be receptive to feedback for your own and team’s performance.
- Go above and beyond.
- Actively seek feedback from your teams’ customers to ensure their needs and expectations are met.
Responsibility:
- Knowledge of managing the commercial impact of a team.
- Ability to meet both personal and departmental KPIs.
One Team:
- Regularly communicate the progress of the department/teams’ efforts based against the operational plan and business objectives.
- Build a positive and healthy working relationship with all colleagues in your team and company.
- Communicate with all colleagues in a professional, calm and assertive manner.
- Be flexible to the needs and requirements of other teams.
Customer Centric:
- A mindset that puts the customer at the centre of everything we do.
- Flexibility and a positive attitude towards opportunity.
- Exhibit a positive approach and treat all colleagues, clients etc with dignity and respect.