Job Description
Job title: Electrical Test Technician
Job location: Derby, Derbyshire
Hourly pay rate: £28.44 Days/£30.75 Morn/£33.05 Afters (Umbrella)
Shifts: Days, Mornings and Afters. Hours per week: 37 hours a week + O/T. Duration: 12 months+ (predicted). Start date: ASAP.
Industries considered: RAF, Rail, Rolling Stock, REME, Army, Navy, Marine, Avionics, Rolling Stock, Commercial/Industrial Electrics, Defence, Plant Engineering, SPM, HVAC, and Process Engineering.
Client Summary
Our client is a global leader in Rolling Stock vehicle manufacturing.
Position Summary
The role is geared around fault finding and diagnosing of train systems including TPWS (Train protection and Warning Systems), AWS (Automatic Warning Systems), PIS (Passenger Information Systems), traction, braking, doors, radios, CCTV, HVAC units, DOO (Driver only operations systems) and MVB (communication network system). Ensure trains leave the site fully tested with no quality defects.
Experience Considered
- In-depth electrical knowledge
- Good understanding of manufacturing process
- Experience reading schematics and written working instructions
- Testing (megger meters, flash tests, continuity tests)
- Fault finding, diagnostics, problem solving
- Wiring
- Methodical and meticulous approach
- Confidence to sign off and put your name against your workmanship
- Electrical qualification
- Ability to prioritise work to maximise output
- Be computer literate (data downloads are part of the position)
- Work within a small team and on your own on occasions
- Have a safe approach to work within an industrial environment
- Be able to react and to solve problems as you uncover them
- HV aware
Additional Information
NVQ Level 3 in an electrical discipline.
Requirements
All applicants must be able to pass a drugs and alcohol test before being offered a position.
