143 – Senior Calibration Technician
Senior Calibration Technician
Based in Bracknell
£25,000 – £26,500 – Pension Scheme, Life Assurance – 4 times annual gross reference salary (after confirmation), 26 Annual Holidays
37 hours per week, Mon – Thursday 8.30am-5pm and on Friday 8.30am-4.30pm
Our client is a non-profit distributing, member-based association promoting knowledge and providing specialist services for construction and building services stakeholders.
They are currently recruiting for a Senior Calibration Technician to join their team. The role is to test, calibrate, operate and repair electrical, mechanical, electromechanical, electrohydraulic, or electronic measuring and recording instruments, apparatus, and equipment in use within Instrument Solutions laboratory
Main duties will include:
- Operation of and adherence to procedures defined within the quality manual
- The conduct of traceable & UKAS accredited calibrations under ISO 9001 & BS EN ISO/IEC 17025 quality systems, respectively (following training)
- Contribute to the development of the laboratory systems and processes to improve the business performance
- The production of calibration and test certificates
Skills and Knowledge required are:-
- Experience of working in a calibration laboratory to ISO 9001 or ISO17025
- Ideally previous experience in a UKAS accredited laboratory in the fields such as pressure, temperature, humidity or electrical calibrations
- Minimum BTEC in Electrical Engineering or similar
- Knowledge of the production of uncertainty budgets
- Methodical with a practical ability including diagnostic skills
- Excellent customer service skills
- Excellent analytical skills
- A good communicator
- Numerate and literate as the work involves rudimentary calculations and a significant amount of written materials
- PC literate with a working knowledge of Microsoft software packages
- Use of specialist laboratory software packages such as LabView or IndySoft
- Ability to work unsupervised to meet deadlines
