Description
Electro-Mechanical Technician - Contract - Gloucestershire - Excellent Rates!
To maintain a variety of electro-mechanical equipment within an Embedded customer team.
Main Accountabilities:
- Conduct optical and electrical installation tasks, both onsite and at field sites including, but not limited to:
- Installation of Line Replaceable Units (LRUs) into racks
- AC and DC power distribution installation/commissioning and maintenance
- Management of workshop space, tools, spares and equipment used to maintain LRUs
- Testing of installed components
- PAT testing
- Asset and consumable spares management, control and ordering
- Fault finding and repair of electronic circuit boards to component level
- Production of Risk Assessments and Method Statements (RAMS) if required for new tasks. Review and maintenance of existing RAMS
- Liaison with customer to ensure efficient and cost-effective delivery of contract requirements
- Provide bespoke engineering solutions to technical issues using in-house workshop or main workshop facilities
- Liaison with external maintainers/suppliers to ensure equipment availability
- Monitoring stocks of spares and reordering as required
Person Specification:
A professional technician providing engineering and logistics support to an existing engineering team including:
- To possess planning skills to optimise use of workshop space
- To be a team worker, but able to work unsupervised
- To be IT literate and able to learn new IT skills
- To be able to build and maintain excellent relationships with internal and external customers
- To be able to communicate technically with external professionals in order to give systems advice
- To know how to identify and exploit future business development opportunities.
- To be highly committed and self-motivated with a desire to contribute to the success of the business
- To liaise with the contract management as required providing mechanical and electrical knowledge, drawings and inputs to meet contract requirements and time lines
- To demonstrate the capability to adapt to changing circumstances
- To possess sound judgement capabilities, to enable appropriate decisions to be made under pressure, based on a variety of sources of information
Knowledge, Qualification and Experience:
- Must possess, or be able to obtain and retain DV clearance.
- C&G 2391 or Electrical Test/Inspect or C&G 1687 Electrical and Electronics Servicing, C&G 2357 Electro Technical Technology, C&G 2356 Electrotechnical Services and Systems or equivalent qualifications
- C&G 2377 PAT Testing
- Ability to report clearly on events both verbally and in written form, including good technical specification, applicable to a broad audience, both internally and externally.
- Computer literate. A regular user of Microsoft Office (including Word and Excel) or similar packages.
- Use of asset management software for the accurate logging of equipment and their associated movements
- COSHH awareness
Desirable Knowledge, Qualification and Experience:
- Be an Eng Tech or Incorporated Engineer or Member of an appropriate organisation, or willing to work towards such membership within one year of appointment.
- Experience of working within secure environments.
- Working knowledge mechanical equipment or outside interests that include mechanical equipment maintenance
Technical
- Basic IT literacy
- Good electrical safety and maintenance skills
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