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;
- Responsibility for production runs - coordinating small, light-manufacture production runs, including product testing, with the aid of a Production Assistant.
- 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
*REFER A FRIEND AND RECIEVE A REWARD, CONTACT THE OFFICE FOR MORE INFO 01536 408631
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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