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Test Technician

Fareham
6 days ago
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Test Technician

Permanent Role

Fareham

Afternoon Shift: 14:00pm-22:30pm Mon-Thurs, 11:00am-16:o0pm Fri

Salary Circa £30,000 + 25% afternoon shift allowance + bonus + company benefits

About us:

This Business is an international leader in the aerospace, defence and energy markets, employing more than 60,000 people at over 40 manufacturing facilities, and regional offices worldwide.

Working closely with their customers, this business delivers technologically differentiated systems and products for the most demanding environments, with high certification requirements for applications across its core end markets. Through focusing on engineering and operational excellence, this business builds broad installed bases of equipment and provides services and support across a fleet of approximately 73,000 aircraft.

Business Core values:

Winning culture, valued customers, passionate people, and engaged leadership are what have allowed them to become the company they are today.

The Role:

As a Test Technician you will perform electrical and electromechanical testing, calibration, and troubleshooting with a high degree of precision and care. Your role will support both product quality and customer satisfaction surrounding electrical and mechanical standards for Aerospace equipment repair. The role will offer training, development, and clear career progression to ensure you develop alongside this growing Aerospace company!

Responsibilities of the role:

Repair Aerospace electronic equipment to industry standards to be able to send back out to market
Sets up and operates equipment to test, calibrate units, subassemblies as per instructions, specifications, and procedures.
Provide detailed written failure description with root cause analysis to production and engineering
Adheres to all company guidelines, policies, and procedures surrounding Aerospace standards
Carry out production, repair, assembly work as required within multiple departments
Maintain a safe and clean work environment and follows company safety policiesSkills required:

Experience in a similar Technician position with electrical testing and fault-finding knowledge
Experience with and an understanding of circuit diagrams and PCB boards and the ability to perform failure analysis
Experience with test equipment such as hand tools, power tools, and electrical fault-finding equipment
Production industry or similar manufacturing environment experience is essential
Not essential but a great strength to have would be experience with electrical equipment to manage digital circuitry, troubleshooting, and failure analysis

Benefits:

Free car parking, Competitive pay package, Career progression opportunities, Pension up to 10% company contribution, Holiday 25 plus stats, Subsidised canteen with Starbucks, Life Assurance, ACIP, (Annual Cash Incentive) Employee Assistance Program for Health & Wellbeing, Employee Perks - offering our employees discounts on a huge variety of goods and services, Income Protection, Business Resource Groups, and Volunteering day off

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