Job Summary
- Achieve the production plan by certifying conformance of equipment by quality control production electrical testing in accordance with defined test procedures and company quality requirements.
- Working on the digital product line, with experience of dealing with the challenges that come from working with new test software and development FPGA code.
- Support business and departmental improvement initiatives.
- Support new product introduction and development.
- Feed into SQCDP process to monitor performance and drive improvements.
Internal Relationships
Team Leader
- Escalate occurrences that prevent achievement of the production plan, including quality, cost and schedule impacts.
- Report anomalous or out of limits results.
- Attend training as directed by team leader in conjunction with training coordinator.
- Agree planned periods of holiday and absence.
Support Engineering
- Escalate deviations from work instructions, routings and any other production impacts to the production support team in the absences of the team leader.
External Relationships
- Represent team leader and department at impact reviews and meetings as directed.
- Attend training and development courses as directed by team leader and training coordinator.
Job Profile
Key Activities
- Maintain accurate quality control test results and test event logs.
- Provide first line fault analysis and raise mandatory non-conformance reports for non-compliant or anomalous tests.
- Support introduction of new test methods.
- Understand use and limitations of relevant test equipment.
- Support and contribute to the introduction of production improvement and efficiency initiatives.
- Have an awareness of business and departmental cost and schedule requirements.
- Adhere to company and departmental Health and Safety and COSHH (Control of Substances Hazardous to Health) processes and procedures.
- Conform to company and departmental policies and procedures.
Skills/Experience Required
Essential -
- Experience of test of electronic, analogue, digital and RF sub-systems up to 10 GHz. Including amplifiers, frequency up/down converters, complex RF and digital signal processing.
- Competent in the use of all types of propriety analogue and RF test equipment including vector and pulse network analysers.
- Experience in Test Production.
Desirable -
- Quality control of test results and documentation; Initial fault diagnosis and raising of non-conformance reports.
- Flexible approach to working methods and patterns. Shift working will be required and overtime likely available over the weekend.
- Pro-active in maintaining a safe working environment and a clear commitment to health and safety in the workplace.
- Willingness to accept change and actively support continuous improvement, Wiling to develop skills as required in support of production (assembly, test, inspection and support) and implements these flexibly.
- Working on space flight processors for satellite manufacture this is working in a high spec cleanroom environment on world leading product.
Education & Training
Desirable -
- Minimum Requirement: HNC or equivalent qualification in electronic discipline plus at least 1 to 2 years relevant experience.
- Desirable Requirement: HND in Electronics/physics and/or 5 years relevant experience.
Working Pattern
Monday to Friday - fortnightly rotating double day shifts - expectation of working extra hours mid-week & weekends
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