Jobs at Smiths Group plc

Creates videos, animations, motion graphics, product visualizations, presentations, case studies, playbooks, and sales enablement content for complex engineering technologies. Translates technical concepts into clear commercial stories while collaborating with engineers, marketers, sales teams, and channel partners. Owns creative projects from concept through delivery, supports partner training and certification, explores generative AI tools, manages content roadmaps, and uses analytics and feedback to optimize effectiveness.

Develop and execute regional marketing strategies supporting business growth, sales performance, customer engagement, and brand presence. Responsibilities include creating content, supporting account-based marketing, managing channel resources, coordinating trade shows and customer events, maintaining brand consistency, developing sales enablement materials, and measuring campaign effectiveness. The role partners closely with sales, product management, global marketing, and distributors while leading major industry event participation.

Supports UK HR operations across recruitment, onboarding, employee lifecycle administration, employee relations, engagement, reporting, audits, absence management, and learning and development. Acts as a first point of contact for employees and managers, maintains accurate HR records, coordinates inductions and training, prepares employee relations documentation, tracks HR metrics, and escalates complex matters to the Senior HR Generalist.

Manage urban-sector customer, distributor, and partner accounts across Northern Europe. Drive revenue through account growth plans, lifecycle sales, upgrades, services, and expansion opportunities. Build sales pipelines, maintain forecasts, convert proposals, support demonstrations and events, monitor markets and competitors, and coordinate with internal teams to deliver customer support and achieve revenue, margin, and order-intake targets.

The Internal Communications Coordinator creates and distributes engaging employee communications across email, intranet, social media, video, and events. The role supports strategy, values, change, transformation, and employee engagement initiatives while simplifying complex information for global audiences. Responsibilities include coordinating campaigns and communications projects, partnering with leaders and business functions, managing creative agencies, monitoring engagement metrics, and recommending improvements. The coordinator works across cultures and time zones and supports a hybrid, global organisation.

Supports an enterprise transformation program by maintaining accurate portfolio data, developing dashboards and executive reports, tracking milestones, risks, dependencies, decisions, and benefits, and strengthening governance processes. The role converts complex project and operational data into actionable insights for senior leaders, improves reporting efficiency through automation, and partners with workstream leaders to ensure consistent performance visibility and data quality.

Lead complex bid and proposal activities from opportunity through submission. Review contracts and terms, identify and mitigate commercial risks, develop proposals and Statements of Work, coordinate cross-functional contributions, support negotiations and governance, and improve bid management processes, templates, and best practices.

Develop and support engineering design automation applications using Rulestream, C#.NET, VB.NET, CAD tools, databases, APIs, and web technologies. Build configurable design systems, integrations, user interfaces, and full-stack applications while supporting CAD standards, DFM/DFA principles, BOM generation, documentation, and continuous improvement. Collaborate with engineering and operations teams, troubleshoot solutions, and provide technical guidance and training.

Owns financial management and reporting for Smiths Detection’s Ireland entity. Responsibilities include month-end close, management accounts, reconciliations, budgeting, forecasting, cash flow management, variance analysis, financial controls, statutory reporting, tax submissions, audit coordination, banking, payroll oversight, and business partnering with operational leaders. The role also supports group consolidation, contract accounting, revenue recognition, compliance, and finance transformation initiatives.

Leads the global channel partner and sales enablement strategy, including partner segmentation, incentives, governance, enablement platforms, content, onboarding, certification, and performance measurement. Collaborates with senior stakeholders across sales, marketing, product, finance, legal, procurement, training, and IT. Drives global programme rollout, regional adoption, partner engagement, ROI improvement, and development of a high-performing channel and enablement team.

Leads Value Analysis and Value Engineering activities across security and detection products. Facilitates functional analysis workshops, applies design-to-cost and target-costing methods, influences product architecture, conducts benchmarking and reverse engineering, and develops value-improvement business cases. The role partners with engineering and supplier teams to reduce lifecycle costs while maintaining safety, performance, quality, serviceability, and compliance. It also coaches teams in VAVE methodologies and supports NPI, make-versus-buy, and technology-selection decisions.

Design, develop, and maintain embedded software for low-power microcontrollers and Linux-based detection systems. Lead technical investigations, define requirements and interfaces, contribute to architecture, perform testing and code reviews, and collaborate across hardware and systems teams. Own software work packages, support Agile delivery, improve engineering practices, and mentor junior engineers. The role focuses on mission-critical chemical and explosive trace detection technology.

Leads the global Contracts Excellence function, establishing contract management standards, governance, lifecycle frameworks, and performance processes. Oversees aftermarket, service, support, managed service, and programme contracts across international regions. Partners with commercial, programme, service, legal, and finance teams to manage risk, improve contractual performance, maximize commercial value, and strengthen customer outcomes. Builds organizational capability through coaching, playbooks, tools, communities of practice, and continuous improvement.

Lead global sustainability and ESG programmes, ensure product environmental compliance (REACH, RoHS, SCIP, Conflict Minerals), manage supplier declarations and carbon accounting (GHG Protocol), drive ESG reporting (CDP, TCFD, CSRD, ISSB), and embed sustainability governance across operations, engineering, procurement and supply chain.

Support and improve chemical, explosives, and narcotics detection products through experimental design, analytical instrumentation, complex data analysis, algorithm optimization, root-cause investigation, and technical reporting. Collaborate with product managers, engineers, customers, and regulators to introduce new detection capabilities and address product lifecycle challenges. Occasional external testing, trials, and industry event support is required. Candidates must be eligible to obtain and maintain SC security clearance.

Leads early-stage research and innovation for chemical, explosives, and narcotics detection technologies. Designs experiments, evaluates emerging technologies, develops prototypes, analyzes complex datasets, conducts root-cause investigations, and delivers technical recommendations. Collaborates with universities, government bodies, research organizations, and technology partners while supporting technology transfer into product development. Requires scientific leadership, technical communication, commercial awareness, and eligibility for UK SC security clearance.

Leads the global Gas Seal Support Systems engineering organization across pre-order and post-order activities. Owns engineering delivery from RFQ through design release, customer approval, manufacturing, and documentation. Manages global engineering teams, capacity planning, performance metrics, standardization, continuous improvement, technical alignment, and customer issues. Supports product development, cost optimization, audits, and compliance with specifications, ISO standards, and EHS requirements.

Technical owner for global enterprise voice: administer and design Microsoft Teams Phone, SBCs, SIP trunks, PBX and contact centre integrations; manage carriers and suppliers; provide third-line support, incident RCA, voice quality monitoring, security and cloud voice migrations.

Provide HR administrative support across onboarding, employee changes, and offboarding. Serve as first point of contact for HR queries, maintain HR records and systems, assist employee relations processes, support reporting and GDPR compliance, coordinate training and engagement, and contribute to HR process improvements.

Provide senior in-house legal support for M&A, strategic partnerships and joint ventures across the transaction lifecycle. Lead due diligence, negotiate and draft transaction documentation, coordinate external counsel, manage legal entity governance, handle ethics and internal investigations, and advise senior stakeholders on legal and commercial risks to support deal execution and integration.