Job Details
BS5090: Engineering Technician
Salary: £26,000-28,000, plus Benefits
Location: Portsmouth, Hampshire
Job Type: Permanent
A successful engineering & manufacturing services company, supplying products and services to the Defence, Aerospace and Homeland Security market sectors, is now looking for an experienced Engineering Technician to take responsibility for the successful delivery of engineering support to Multimedia and secure communications equipment installed in Royal Naval ships, submarines and establishments to agreed timescales and budgets, while adhering to specified quality parameters. Reporting to the Engineering Support Manager, the Engineering Technician will apply engineering, mechanical and electrical fitter skills for a customer facing role in fault finding, repairing and upgrading equipment, installing cabling and equipment, maintenance & testing of onsite reference systems and report writing. The Engineering Technician will also ideally support IT and network related tasks.
This role would suit ex-military candidates and applications from ex-service personnel are strongly encouraged.
Key Responsibilities
Providing off site support to the engineering team
Fault finding and maintenance of equipment on board ships
Provision of skilled installation of cabling and equipment
Testing of equipment, spares and reference systems
Deploying anywhere in the world inclusive of Contractor on Deployed Operations (CONDO)
Completing work to time, cost and quality
Ensuring that Health & Safety policy is adhered to
Provision of written/verbal task progress updates
Reviewing, updating and improving internal processes and user technical documents
Assessment of hours and skills required for potential tasks and projects
Key Qualifications and Experience
Proven experience and qualifications in electrical and mechanical installation
Proven experience and qualifications in equipment maintenance
Strong interpersonal, communication and organisational skills
An awareness of Health & Safety Act 1974
The ability to work unsupervised, demonstrate initiative, and be comfortable in a team environment
An in-date Passport and clean category B driving licence
Experience of working with Multi Media systems
Experience of working with secure communications systems
Desirable experience in IT and networking
Desirable experience in the naval , maritime environment
- All candidates must be in a position to obtain UK security clearance to SC level. Additional restrictions may apply on certain defence programmes
Interested applicants will be expected to complete and return by email a simple application form to which CVs must be pasted. Please state your salary expectations.
This job is no longer available for new applications.
Proud to be honouring the commitment of the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant and supporting the Armed Forces Community