Test Technician

BSC FILTERS: WHO WE ARE BSC specializes in the global design and manufacture of custom RF and Microwave Solutions. Utilising core and advanced filter technologies as well as their integration in higher level sub-assemblies for the latest rf and microwave products to connect and protect people in defence, communications, aerospace and space. 

OPPORTUNITY We’re looking to recruit a new team member within our Production team into the role of TEST TECHNICIAN. Your job is to work as part of our highly skilled, friendly and customer focussed Production team to test our filters which protect and connect people around the world. 

This is a shift based role working earlies and lates on alternate weeks. Working at your own individual work space independently and as part of a team, you’ll complete a range of test activities to test fit for purpose, alignment to specifications, vibration, response to heat and other activities to ensure our filters meet customer requirements. 

You’ll do this by: 

▪ Making precision adjustments and modifications using microscopes, scalpels and other small hand tools to manipulate tuning screens, filing, grinding, deburring and cutting, to meet amplitude and frequency ranges. 

▪ Recording and taking data from analysers and other equipment to enable test equipment to be calibrated. 

▪ Fault finding, highlighting and where able resolving product issues and errors ensuring quality standards are maintained. 

To be successful, you are or ideally have the following skills: 

▪ Confident and organised and wanting to learn our processes, how they work and what you’ll need to do to achieve the right standard. 

▪ Patient and methodical in putting things together and when necessary, tinkering/adjusting them to get the right result. 

▪ Someone who enjoys problem solving, finding faults and suggesting solutions.

▪ Experience of working in an engineering or manufacturing environment, meaning you can work to exacting standards and design.

▪ Have a high attention to detail, combined with a passion for tidiness in your work area! 

▪ Enjoy making positive teamwork contributions to our highly motivated Production teams, delivering continuous improvement and meeting targets. 

Previous experience in these responsibilities would be advantageous, but we are also interested in people wh