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  • Posted By: Polytec Personnel
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  • Date Posted: 8th Oct 2008
  • Salary: £neg
  • Location: Cambridge
  • Reference Code: 21035
  • Views Since Posting: 55
  • Full Description:

    Our client is currently looking for an Assembly and Test Engineer to be part of a team designing, building and testing gravity gradiometer instruments. The role will be to provide specialist manufacture and assembly of gravity gradiometer components and systems.

    MAIN DUTIES:
    *Develop understanding of instruments and technologies to allow manufacturing requirements to be determined and to ensure that full capabilities of available techniques are exploited.
    *Interact with engineers within the company to ensure this understanding and to advise on practicable solutions to manufacturing issues and good manufacturing practice.
    *In liaison with project manager, manage personal workload to ensure milestones are achieved.
    *To plan, perform and document final system assembly and testing of gravity gradiometer instruments.
    *Provide guidance to technicians (for example, standards of workmanship and technical problem solving).
    *Reporting of progress against agreed timescales both for individual tasks and projects.
    *Obtain and exploit best practice advice from appropriate internal and external sources.
    *Initiate, lead and support appropriate process and product development concepts.
    *Establish and maintain effective working relationships throughout the business, in particular liaise with peers in similar roles to gain the benefits of common practices.
    *Maintain professional awareness of external developments in techniques and processes and identify where these may be used to benefit the business.
    *Implement quality policy and procedures as defined in the quality system.
    Be aware of and ensure compliance with Health & Safety policy and procedures.

    DESIRED SKILLS:
    *Recognised apprenticeship or well qualified by experience.
    *Undergraduate degree in engineering or science or subjects.
    *Background in equipment development.
    *Broad range of assembly and/or test experience.
    *Experience of complex microelectronic assemblies.
    *Experience of micro-joining technologies.
    *Cryogenic experience.
    *Assembly techniques for micro-electronics and electronics assemblies.
    *Ability to generate and follow drawings, schematics and to specify components.
    *Cryogenics, superconductivity or SQUID systems. Integration of assemblies into systems.
    *Ability to design suitable assembly and test protocols, adapting them to reflect outcomes

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