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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