Test Technician
Job Description
Job title: Test Technician
Company: Ultra Electronics
Job description: Ultra Precision Control Systems (PCS) are looking for a Test Technician to test, fault find and repair a range of products to meet customer commitments in terms of quality and timescales. Ensure forecasted weekly, production, and service commitments are met to the highest levels of quality control. In this role you will need to ensure that all products are repaired, tested, and shipped according to company procedure.
Wherever possible, we will consider a variety of working options to suit your lifestyle, whether that be hybrid home/office working, flexible working and part or full time employment. It’s the ‘innovating’ and ’empowering’ values that we ASPIRE to be. We welcome the challenge to work in new ways and have trust in you when getting the job done because we recognise, our business is our people.
Key Responsibilities:
- To be able to follow departmental, quality and Health & Safety procedures.
- Carry out incoming test, inspection, and strip survey processes across a wide variety of electronic products.
- Responsible for testing and fault-finding service/production units to board level using Test Specifications and diagrams.
- Carry out Environmental Stress Screening (ESS) and Vibration tests across products.
- Repair and assemble products and be able to carry out soldering to IPC 600 J standard 001.
- Program PCBs and devices using Programming Loading Documents.
- Perform inspection on all activities as and when required.
- Produce meaningful investigation reports and Statement of work.
- Ensure that all documentation is completed accurately and kept up to date.
- Assist with training and mentoring.
- Follow European Aviation Safety Agency Form One (EASA Form 1) procedures.
- Provide technical assistance to internal customers.
- To ensure repair products and turnaround time is achieved to meet our customer expectations.
- Providing regular updates to Supervisor.
- Demonstrate a level of innovation and recommendations within the cell to assist continuous improvements.
- Ordering and checking/rejecting of components.
- Maintain a high-quality standard that our customer expects.
- Matrix working and undertake work in accordance with your skill set.
- Planning and organising daily tasks.
Essential Skills Required:
- Previous proven experience in an electronic manufacturing environment working across a range of products.
- Able to read and understand technical drawings.
- Ability to work on own and within a team.
- Proactive approach to problem solving.
- Able to give guidance and instruction when appropriate to team members.
- Good communication skills (both verbal and written).
- Able to follow instructions and provide recommendations for improvement.
- Demonstrates good attention to detail producing consistently high-quality work.
- High level of initiative.
- Good level of computer literacy.
- Can do attitude.
- Experience in managing daily key activities to achieve timescales to a high-quality standard.
- Flexible around working hours to help meet value streams targets.
Desirable Skills:
- Proven Capability to recognise IPC standards.
- Previous experience working in the Aerospace industry.
- Knowledge of lean manufacturing techniques.
- HNC or equivalent technical (electronics) discipline.
Security Clearance:
Candidates must be able to achieve BPSS security clearance
Benefits:
Every employee is critical to our success and as such we offer a range of flexible employee benefits along with career development opportunities.
Flexible working within core working hours * Early Finish on a Friday
25 days holiday with the option to buy/sell 5 days plus bank holidays.
4 times your annual salary in life assurance
Flexible benefits package
Pension Scheme – Less than 5 years’ service up to 5.5% employer contributions, 5 years’ service + up to 7.5% employer contributions.
Sports and Social club
Supportive and friendly working environment with regular team events
Here at Ultra we are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusivity. Underpinned by our values, behaviours and policies, we want you to feel empowered to be the best version of yourself. We also believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures will increase our diversity of thinking, ensuring we successfully deliver to our customers.
We therefore do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We also support requests for flexible working arrangements wherever possible.
Expected salary:
Location: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
