Vision Engineer

Functional area:  Product Management
Country:  UK - United Kingdom
City:  Oxford
Company name:  Atlas Copco Ltd
Date of posting:  Jun 12, 2025

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Our solutions are a key part of most industries - electronics, medical research, renewable energy, food production, infrastructure and many more. Working with us means working with the latest technologies and groundbreaking, sustainable innovations.

Join us on our journey for a better tomorrow.

 

Atlas Copco Group, a global leader in industrial innovation since its founding in Sweden in 1873. Atlas Copco Group enables technology that transforms the future. We innovate to develop products, services and solutions that are key to our customers’ success.

With a strong commitment to sustainable productivity, we empower manufacturers worldwide on their journey toward Smart Factory transformation. Through our ecosystem of Smart Integrated Assembly Solutions, we deliver data-driven innovations that enhance efficiency, precision, and sustainability. Our global presence enables us to support and collaborate with manufacturers across diverse industries, ensuring tailored solutions that meet evolving market demands.

Our trusted partnerships extend to some of the world's leading companies, including Airbus, McLaren, Jaguar Land Rover, Ford Motor Company, Rolls-Royce, and BMW, among others. These collaborations reflect our expertise, reliability, and dedication to delivering forward-thinking solutions that drive success in modern manufacturing.

VisionTools Information

Atlas Copco Group acquired VisionTools, headquartered in Waghäusel. VisionTools develops and sells smart, integrated quality control solutions primarily aimed at the automotive industry. With this acquisition, we strengthen our smart integrated assembly solutions, delivering greater value to our customers in the automotive industry. As we expand in the UK market we will adapt this role into our organizational structure.

Job Description

 

Your overall objective is to help grow the VisionTools business in the UK by increasing awareness, commissioning and maintaining systems, and delivering customer excellence.

 

Your Key Responsibilities

 

  • Commission, install, and maintain complex systems at customer sites (mainly automotive manufacturers and suppliers), on site at BMW Oxford and other UK customer sites.
  • Manage service and maintenance requests.
  • Diagnose and resolve technical issues on-site.
  • Optimise and fine tune systems for peak performance.
  • Coordinate and communicate closely with customers to install new systems.
  • Prepare project documentation and conduct internal and customer training sessions.
  • Assist the Global team to integrate vision systems into our Smart Integrated Assembly offering.
  • Assist business development by increasing customer awareness through demonstrations and trials.
  • Support our Digital Marketing team to create wider customer awareness of VisionTools.
  • Be proactive and collaborative in your approach.
  • Some international travel may be required.
  • Assist our local Machine Vision team as required.

What we offer

 

  • A supportive, collaborative working environment, within a high-performance team.
  • Training and mentorship to help you achieve your project objective.
  • To work with a growing and innovative world market leader.
  • To work in a challenging environment with international career opportunities.
  • A Talent Framework for you to leverage and reach your potential.

What we are looking for

 

  • Completed vocational training, e.g. as a plant or energy electronics technician, mechatronics technician or further training as an automation specialist as a PLC or robot programmer or as an engineer (electrical engineering, automation technology, mechatronics, information technology or computer science).
  • Motivation to learn/develop into a machine vision specialist role.
  • Ability to work in a team, social skills and a goal-oriented, structured way of working.
  • Willingness to travel nationally and internationally.

 

 

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