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Quest Employment

Production Engineer

Job Title / Position: Production Engineer
Job Ref no: PE/SG

Position Type: Permanent

Branch Location: Recruitment agency in Corby

Work Location: Northampton

Salary:
£45,000-£55,000

Shifts / Hours: Monday-Friday 9-5

Job Description:

Quest Employment are working with a company that specialise in cutting-edge security and intelligence solutions, working with Government agencies both in the UK and globally to find an experienced Production Engineer to join their dedicated team.

Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm

Benefits:

  • 33 days annual leave (including Bank Holiday allowance) - increasing to 38 days after 5 years service
  • Flexible working
  • Travel insurance to cover leisure trips for you and your partner & children
  • Pension: 4% employer contribution to your pension when you deposit an equal amount
  • Share scheme
  • Progression opportunities

The role of Production Engineer is split between two areas of the business;

  1. Responsibility for production runs - coordinating small, light-manufacture production runs, including product testing, with the aid of a Production Assistant.
  2. Providing support in innovative development and prototype testing to a small team of electronic hardware engineers.

Occasional support work would also be involved, diagnosing faults in customer units and repairing them.

Responsibilities:

  • Maintaining stock levels of assembled products for sale, and component parts
  • Responsible for production-run coordination, including quality control
  • Record-keeping of supplied systems
  • Periodic customer support and product repairs
  • Preparing work for Production Assistant(s) and ensuring that they are working efficiently
  • Aiding in Research & Development work as required
  • Responding to requests from the development team
  • Assembling electronic hardware through hand-soldering and the use of heat gun & bed
  • Testing of hardware modules and final assembled products
  • Writing or contributing to product/project documentation
  • Some basic electrical work on products, mainly wiring-related
  • Assessing and understanding customer needs to contribute towards product design
  • Possible occasional demonstration of products and concepts to customers

Essential Requirements/Qualifications:

  • Able to use laboratory test equipment such as oscilloscopes and signal generators
  • Able to solder to a high standard, including small pitch SMT components
  • Thorough production builds, good practice as a finisher-completer
  • Effective communication
  • Organised
  • Able to work both independently and as part of a team

Advantageous experience:

  • Experience with RF
  • Experience with low power circuits
  • Basic electrical wiring knowledge
  • Ability to use a spectrum analyser

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Quest Employment acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and as an employment business for temporary recruitment.

Date Advertised: 06 September 2024
Date Closes: 31 December 2024

Please Contact: [email protected]

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