Trainee Calibration Technician (Field Based) - Swindon & surrounding area Remote
Checkit
Full Time
Remote
10.56 - 12.04 GBP Today
Job description
NOTE: this role is covering a specific geographical area along the M4 corridor. You must be living close to Swindon to do this role. We will be unable to accept applications from candidates living outside this specific area.
Among Checkit's core products are smart sensors that monitor things like temperature, water flow or air quality, and send alerts to our central hub if readings fall outside expected boundaries. This helps our customers to ensure that critical systems are working as expected, and to know quickly if something is wrong so they can fix it before it becomes a problem. We help the NHS keep things like blood products and vaccines at the correct temperature by monitoring their storage fridges, and we help food retailers to reduce waste by monitoring refrigerated display cabinets in their stores. These sensors are calibrated and maintained by our team of Field Service Engineers, who visit customer sites to install the equipment and make sure they are in full working order.
Among Checkit's core products are smart sensors that monitor things like temperature, water flow or air quality, and send alerts to our central hub if readings fall outside expected boundaries. This helps our customers to ensure that critical systems are working as expected, and to know quickly if something is wrong so they can fix it before it becomes a problem. We help the NHS keep things like blood products and vaccines at the correct temperature by monitoring their storage fridges, and we help food retailers to reduce waste by monitoring refrigerated display cabinets in their stores. These sensors are calibrated and maintained by our team of Field Service Engineers, who visit customer sites to install the equipment and make sure they are in full working order.
This role is basically a Field Service Engineer in training. You’ll start from scratch, learning the ropes of how to calibrate sensors using our technical calibration equipment, under the close guidance and supervision of our Field Service Engineer team. As you progress you will be signed off to complete calibrations alone, visiting customer sites to check their sensors are in full working order and measuring correctly. After a year or so in role we expect you to progress to a fully-fledged Field Service Engineer, handling full installations and maintenance as well as calibrations.
We are looking for someone keen to begin a career in the calibration sector, who has a technical brain capable of understanding this kind of equipment, and a positive and enthusiastic attitude towards learning and development. We will provide full training, so this represents an amazing opportunity for someone to get a start in this industry. While some sort of technical qualification or experience would be helpful, the most important thing is drive, determination, a positive attitude and a real willingness to learn and be trained.
You will be provided with all the equipment you need to do the job including a company car, laptop, mobile phone, tools, work clothing and PPE.
What you'll be doing
- Learning how to calibrate our sensor products using our technical calibration equipment, including Pico machines which check that temperature measurement probes are measuring correctly, and hygropalm machines which check that ambient environmental conditions are suitable for calibration to take place.
- Spending an initial training period out on the road with members of our Field Sales Engineering team learning all about our sensors, our equipment, calibration processes and customer service standards.
- Once trained, visiting customer sites and calibrating sensors to meet our customer SLAs.
- Issuing calibration certificates for completed calibrations, and arranging for our UKAS qualified Engineers to check the quality and consistency of the calibrations completed.
- Progressing over the course of approximately a year from the Trainee Calibration Technician position to a fully-fledged Field Service Engineer, where you’ll be involved in all aspects of sensor installation and maintenance alongside the calibration aspects of the position.
What we're looking for
- No specific academic qualifications are required, however any qualification or apprenticeship in a technical or engineering subject would be a distinct advantage. We are looking for someone with a technical brain who can quickly get up to speed with the requirements of the role.
- No specific experience is required as full training will be provided, however any experience in a technical of engineering role of some sort would be advantageous.
- As the role involves driving to customer sites, it is essential that you have a full UK driving licence with no points or endorsements.
- The ability to quickly understand and internalise technical information and concepts is important, as the ability to learn and understand technical processes.
- Good face-to-face communication skills are important, as you will be dealing with customers on their premises on a daily basis. We need someone warm, friendly and engaging with a strong desire to deliver brilliant customer service every single day.
- Good general IT skills, familiar with MS Office suite and Outlook, with the ability to pick up new systems quickly.
- Strong desire to learn and constantly improve knowledge and understanding.
- Ability to put learning into practice, with a practical nature.
- Excellent attention to detail, well organised and able to think logically.
- Strong work ethic, motivated and driven to succeed.
- Trustworthy, reliable, consistent and responsible.
- Desire to build a career in the engineering sector.
- Strong team player who works well with others and enjoys being part of a team.
What's in it for you
Checkit offer a range of benefits designed to give you the opportunity to learn and develop your skills, provide for your future, look after your routine healthcare, and feel protected if life throws you a curve ball. Our benefits include:
- Everyone gets a generous amount of leave, above the statutory levels, to help you rest and recharge
- Your birthday off in addition to your annual leave allowance
- 2 mental wellbeing days off per year, to take the time to reset and look after yourself
- Life insurance at 4x your basic salary
- Up to 20 paid sick days in any rolling 12 month period
- Income protection insurance to pay your wages if you need extended time off work due to illness
- Health cash plan to help with the costs of optical, dental and support for your mental wellbeing
- Access to Help@Hand health & wellbeing app
- Contributory pension scheme
- Share award scheme, allowing you to be rewarded for our future success
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay, and paid loss of pregnancy leave
- Up to 60 days “work from anywhere” per year, allowing you to work from overseas
- Unlimited access to thousands of courses on LinkedIn Learning, and Pluralsight for tech roles
In addition, we have a remote-first, work-where-it-works culture, meaning that in most jobs, you’ll be able to work from home for the majority of the time, going to one of our offices in Cambridge or Fleet only when you need to collaborate with your team.
About Checkit
Checkit optimises the performance of people, processes and physical assets with connected digital solutions. We help companies with remote, deskless workforces to schedule, manage and analyse the activities of their teams to deliver improved productivity, engagement and cost savings. Via digital assistants that provide guided workflows, powerful dashboards that provide insights into critical activities and bring dark operations to light, and smart sensors that monitor critical assets and building facilities, we give leadership teams the ability to schedule and plan activity, and know what is happening as it happens, while making life much easier for their teams at the frontline. These real-time workflow, monitoring and analytics services enable safe and productive work, efficient operations and data-driven insight to continually improve performance in large, complex organisations.
We work across four main sectors – healthcare, pharmaceutical, life sciences and biotech; facilities and building management; retail; and hospitality. We help our customers with challenges as diverse as keeping vaccines at the correct temperature; reducing stock loss and waste for food retailers; reducing time spent on audit and compliance; repurposing tens of thousands of working hours previously spent on tasks we now automate; and monitoring best practice and care quality. Our clients include many NHS trusts, BP, Waitrose / John Lewis Partnership, Sodexo, Hallmark Care Homes and Center Parcs.
Checkit is a publicly traded business headquartered in Cambridge, UK, with its operations centre in Fleet, UK and a US operation based out of Tampa, Florida. We currently have over 185 employees and are growing rapidly.
Checkit
https://www.checkit.net/
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Kit Kyte
$5 to $25 million (USD)
51 to 200 Employees
Company - Public
Enterprise Software & Network Solutions
