Assembly Cell Lead

Job Title – Assembly Cell Lead

Job Location – Farnborough

Job ID – 32165

About this opportunity and L3Harris UK

From 11 UK sites, our team of nearly 1,000 people delivers unique capabilities across space, air, land, sea and cyber for military, security and commercial customers across the UK and worldwide.

L3Harris in Farnborough engineer and maintain Night Vision Goggles, Precision Approach Radar systems, and Tactical Radios. Notably, we are the proud designer, supplier and maintainer of the 50,000 tactical radios in the Bowman tactical C4I system in service with the UK Armed Forces and are working to define and deliver the next generation system, Morpheus.

A few of our employee benefits are:

• 25 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays), increasing with long service and with the opportunity to buy/sell up to 5 days
• Private medical insurance with optional family cover
• Pension scheme of up to 7% employer contribution
• Life Assurance 4x salary (flexible up to 10x)
• Group income protection
• Flexible opt-in extras such as a health care cash plan, dental insurance, gym membership, critical illness cover and cycle to work scheme
• Employee assistance program providing mental health and wellbeing support
• Professional membership reimbursement (discretionary)

What the role will involve

The responsibilities of your role will include the following:

• Build and test precision electro/mechanical motors and various other precision components used on aircrafts to drawing and relevant quality requirements.
• Assemblies include solder wires, tags, components to boards or terminals, bearing fitting, measurement of shaft radial and end play.
• Carry out electrical test and inspection to drawings and specification using appropriate equipment such as oscilloscopes, multi-metres, vibration rigs and environmental ovens.
• Asses returns for repair/refurbishment and determine repair requirements DIR’s (Defect Investigation Report). Strip, clean, test and re-build to specification.
• Complete test documentation and all relevant paperwork and maintain traceability of individual parts.
• Assist in training other members of staff when required.
• To support design department in trials and pre-production units.
• To liaise and support MED (Manufacturing Engineering Dpt) in the writing of the manufacturing process (route card narrative and plannings). offer process improvement and ensure a smooth transition of first batches of production units from design.
• Support activities in the other assembly departments as and when required.

What you’ll bring

The role requires the following experience and skills:

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience working in the electro\mechanical field with proven fitting skills.

Important to know

Due to the nature of our work many our roles require a UK nationality and the ability to obtain a security clearance. Applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment must meet the requirement of right to work in the UK and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information and will be subject to government security checks.