Assembly Cell Lead

Job Title – Assembly Cell Lead

Job Location – Farnborough

Job ID – 30782

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:

• Half day finish on a Friday
• 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 8% 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

What the role will involve

The responsibilities of your role will include the following:

• Working as part of the assembly team to produce LRU’s to the daily going rate.
• Re-work of circuit boards to IPC7711/7721 standard involving removal/replacement of surface mount components.
• Working on repair and processing of LRU’s through troubleshoot ensuring correct use of in-house systems.
• Use of Automated Test Equipment (ATE) for the test of product.
• Use electronic systems to track repairs and update correctly.
• Check Assemblies meet quality standards and seek advice from supervisor or Manufacturing Engineer as necessary.
• Work with other Cell members using lean manufacturing techniques and participate in lean production activities.
• Maintain housekeeping in cell using 5S+1 techniques.
• Maintain quality levels of work in progress adhering strictly to IPC610 cat C.
• Update Work in Progress and output TAKT boards, record figures daily.

What you’ll bring

The role of Assembly Technician requires the following experience and skills:

• Experience of maintaining soldering standards
• Broad knowledge of re-work techniques for surface mounts and through hole components is desirable, as well as experience in the re-work of circuit boards

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.