Senior Certified Technician
- Employer
- Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
- Location
- STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell, Oxfordshire
- Salary
- Salary £30,782 to £33,459
- Closing date
- 9 Sep 2019
- Reference
- IRC250412
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- Discipline
- Electrical, Electronics, Manufacturing & Production, Systems
- Sector
- Consumer Electronics, Industrial, Manufacturing, Sciences
- Job Type
- Early Career, Engineer
Job Details
Senior Certified Technician
Salary £30,782 to £33,459 (plus a Recruitment and Retention Allowance)
STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell, Oxfordshire
Full time and part time considered
About Us
The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) is one of Europe’s largest research organisations. We’re trusted to support, enable and undertake pioneering projects in an amazing diversity of fields. Through world-class facilities and people, we’re driving ground-breaking advances in science and engineering.
As part of UK Research and Innovation, STFC offers a benefits package designed to provide an excellent work/life balance. This includes 30 days’ annual leave, 10.5 public and privilege days, Christmas shut down, flexible working hours, a workplace nursery, an exceptional defined benefit pension scheme, and social and sporting activities and societies.
About the Role
You will carry out electronic and electrical assembly work to IPC and European Space Agency (ESA) Standards and other activities relating to the manufacture of electronic assemblies for use in space. You will be based at RAL within the Production & Software Group of the Imaging Systems Division within RAL Space. The Imaging Systems Division has a long-standing heritage of excellence in Space flight going back over 50 years. We build electronic systems for spaceflight and hence quality is paramount in our work.
You will demonstrate a flexible approach, have a good engineering understanding, and a good eye for detail. Many of our projects are unique, and hence it's sometimes down to the technician to plan and organise the manufacture rather than to follow drawings. You will also be supervising junior technicians to ensure the best practice is promulgated within the Production Group.
About You
You will need to hold GCSE’S (or equivalent) in Maths an English, pass the visual acuity test resolving in being able to hold an ESA operator certificate and hold an ESA certificated, level 3.
You will need to have attended and passed the following ESA courses EO1, EO4, EO5 and EO6,7&8 high-reliability crimping or/ and wrapping. You will also need to have experience in using production management software.
To Apply
You must include a cover letter outlining your suitability for this role.
Applications are handled by UK SBS; to apply please click the apply button. Applicants who are unable to apply online should contact us by telephone on +44 (0)1793 867000.
The closing date for applications is 9th September 2019.
Company
The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) is one of Europe’s largest research organisations. We’re trusted to support, enable and undertake pioneering projects in an amazing diversity of fields. Through world-class facilities and people, we’re driving ground-breaking advances in science and engineering. STFC is one of nine organisations that have been brought together to create UK Research and Innovation (UKRI); a new organisation with a vision to ensure the UK maintains its world-leading position in research and innovation.
At STFC, our engineers provide the technology that allows our world-leading science to make a real difference in areas that really matter: from cancer treatment to airport security, high-tech jobs to hydrogen powered cars, energy generation to accident scene emergency care, our impact is felt in many aspects of daily life. We provide and exploit space and astronomy technology, a world-leading neutron scattering facility, ultra-fast supercomputers, amazing scientific instruments and some of the most powerful lasers in the world. We work with industry and academia throughout the UK, Europe and the world.
STFC can offer you an excellent working environment. Our laboratories are based in beautiful rural locations in Cheshire, Oxfordshire and in Edinburgh, with great amenities and quality of life for you and your family. We are at the centre of burgeoning high-tech campuses buzzing with economic investment and even more promise for the future. Our people enjoy attractive benefits and plenty of opportunity for development. Whether you are beginning or furthering your career, we can offer you excellent opportunities to test out and broaden your skills and experience and to gain real technical and managerial expertise working in dynamic team and project environments.
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