职业发展

Our growing business provides opportunities at all levels to progress in manufacturing, design, engineering, sales, marketing, service and customer support. Structured career development and training programmes are designed to encourage and recognise the career goals and aspirations of everybody, ie. 'Careers not jobs'.

What can a career at Renishaw offer you?

Renishaw's comprehensive appraisal programme is designed to allow everybody to discuss and identify their training needs, concerns and career ambitions.

Career development may include the opportunity to work overseas, either on visits or with one of our subsidiaries. This may be on a temporary or permanent basis. Some employees have become true 'world travellers' working for the Renishaw Group.

Career examples

Have a look at the career paths of some of our employees below.

Gareth Hankins

Manufacturing Systems and Manufacturing Management, Cardiff
General Manager - Manufacturing Services Division

• August 1988 - joined Renishaw as a Mechanical Technician Apprentice from school.
• October 1990 - completed an apprenticeship and became a Renishaw sponsored student.
• August 1993 - graduated in Manufacturing Systems and Manufacturing Management from Cardiff University.
• January 1996 - became a Cell Leader in Assembly at New Mills.
• November 1996 - became a Product Group Leader in Electronic Assembly, New Mills.
• December 1997 - appointed a Trustee of the Renishaw Pension Fund.
• November 1998 - seconded to Renishaw Ireland's new factory in Dublin, as the new Production Manager.
• January 2001 - returned to the UK to project manage the transfer of manufacturing to the newly-acquired Woodchester site.
• January 2003 - Operations Manager - Stylus & Custom Products Division, responsible for reducing lead-times and improving delivery performance of Customised products and expansion of the Stylus business.
• October 2003 - Special Projects Manufacturing Manager - Trouble shooting role within manufacturing reporting to the Deputy Chairman.
• October 2005 - Manufacturing Operations Manager - Manufacturing Services Division, managing day to day production activities and the refurbishment and relocation of piece part manufacturing operations to the newly acquired facility at Stonehouse, Glos.
• July 2006 - General Manager - Manufacturing Services Division - Responsible for the performance of all UK production operations and process engineering, plant and site management, purchasing, process development, customer service centre and manufacturing systems

Louise Callanan

Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Trinity College, Dublin
Project Manager, Neurological Products Division

• 1995 - 1996 - summer placements in our Dublin factory.
• August 1997 - graduated from Trinity College, Dublin with a BAI Hons degree in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering.
• September 1997 - joined Renishaw as a Graduate Engineer in our Laser and Calibration Products Division (Design).
• July 1998 - promoted to Design Engineer.
• April 1999 - transferred as a Design Engineer to our Co-ordinate Measuring Machine (CMM) Products Division.
• July 2000 - seconded to Group Marketing Services working on E-business and other group projects.
• October 2001 - re-joined CMM Products divisions Product Marketing Department as a Product Marketing Engineer.
• January 2004 - promoted to Product Marketing Manager.
• February 2006 - transferred to newly formed Neurological Products Division as Project Manager.

Mike Brown

Mechanical Engineering, Manchester University
General Manager, Renishaw Oceania Pty Ltd, Australia

• October 1984 - joined as a sponsored student.
• September 1988 - graduated from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) in Mechanical Engineering.
• July 1990 - appointed Product Support Engineer, Renishaw Sales Division.
• April 1992 - seconded to Renishaw SpA, Torino, Italy as a Product Marketing Executive (didn't speak Italian, didn't like pizza - now fluent and knows his pizzas!).
• February 1996 - formally transferred to Renishaw SpA as a permanent employee of the Italian subsidiary with the title of Sales Manager, Renishaw SpA.
• February 1998 - appointed General Manager of Renishaw's new liaison office, located in Bangalore, India.
• July 1999 - appointed General Manager of Renishaw's new liaison office in Australia, which was converted to full subsidiary status in 2001.