Diagnostics Technician Sedgefield, England
Job description
Location: Sedgefield
Reporting to:
Production Manager
The Company:
Filtronic is a world leader in the design and manufacture of customised microwave and millimetre wave electronics. Our products are used within telecommunications, defence and other related applications. Our investment in high calibre staff, leading edge technology and a world class manufacturing facility underpin our growth strategy and our aim to be a world class supplier of high frequency products and solutions.
Purpose of Role:
The purpose of this role is to diagnose failure modes, identifying and communicating rework action, and to identify corrective actions to improve the product yield.
Summary of responsibilities:
- Identifying faults in individual units.
- Identifying and communicating the rework action required to fix the individual units.
- Making recommendations to improve the yield for transceivers.
- Prioritising workload in accordance with output targets.
- Reviewing and analysing the yield data to determine trends and instigate corrective/preventative actions.
- Co-ordinating trials, yield data reviews and meetings.
- To work closely with and support the production and manufacturing engineering departments on current production and new product introduction.
- To be involved with data gathering and reporting as well as making recommendations in connection with process improvements and cost reductions.
- To review and update production documentation.
- To assist production in product testing, to meet daily targets.
- To liaise with the manufacturing engineering team to carry out failure mode and effects analysis.
- To ensure that the product meets the required build standard and to initiate improvements to the build process to achieve better yields.
The successful candidate will have a minimum of 2 years’ experience in RF/Microwave Test in a production or development environment and will also be able to satisfy the following requirements:
- Knowledge and practical experience in the use, setup and calibration of the following equipment; VNA, RF Synthesiser, Power Meter, Spectrum Analyser, DC Power Supplies.
- Good manual dexterity and hand to eye co-ordination.
- Experience in the use of the following software packages; Word, Excel.
- Experience in using computers for automated test.
- Good communication skills, as interfacing with many different work groups is essential.
- Disciplined approach to tasks set.
- Self-motivated to carry out defined tasks with a reasonable amount of independence.
- Eagerness to develop in technical knowledge.
Additional requirements:
- UK Security clearance is required for this role
