Test Technician

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Join Dover Corporation’s Microwave Products Group as a Test Technician in York, onsite, full-time. You’ll work in a friendly production team and, at your own workspace, perform tests to verify filters meet specifications for amplitude, frequency, vibration and heat, recording data from analysers and equipment, and fault finding to maintain quality. You should be confident, organized, patient and methodical, enjoy problem solving, and care about a tidy workstation. Prior engineering or manufacturing experience helps, but full training is provided. For your application, tailor your CV to highlight precise testing, data logging, teamwork, and a genuine eagerness to learn and contribute to customer requirements.

Connecting and Protecting People, Microwave Products Group (MPG) is a leading global provider of mission-critical engineered electronic components and subsystems comprised of five business units in six manufacturing locations. Our brand names are recognized globally including: BSC Filters, York, UK; Criteria Labs, Austin, TX; Dow-Key Microwave, Ventura, CA; Pole/Zero, West Chester, OH; Espy, Austin, TX; and K&L Microwave, Salisbury, Maryland and Dominican Republic.
Our expertise is the design and manufacture of communications-based specialty products – engineered components and subsystems – for demanding military, space, commercial aerospace/industrial, and telecom infrastructure applications where function and reliability are crucial.

BSC FILTERS: WHO WE ARE

BSC specializes in the global design and manufacture of custom RF and Microwave Solutions. Utilising core and advanced filter technologies as well as their integration in higher level sub-assemblies for the latest rf and microwave products to connect and protect people in defence, communications, aerospace and space. Microwave Products Group | BSC Filters (mpgdover.com)

 OPPORTUNITY

We’re now recruiting a TEST TECHNICIAN to join our highly skilled, friendly and customer focussed Production team.  Working at your own individual work space independently and as part of a team, you’ll complete a range of test activities to test fit for purpose, alignment to specifications, vibration, response to heat and other activities to ensure our filters meet customer requirements.

You’ll do this by:

• Making precision adjustments and modifications using microscopes, scalpels and other small hand tools to manipulate tuning screws and RF tracks to meet amplitude and frequency ranges.
• Recording and taking data from analysers and other equipment to ensure the filter meets specification.
• Fault finding, highlighting and where able resolving product issues and errors ensuring quality standards are maintained.

To be successful, you are or ideally have the following skills:

• Confident and organised and wanting to learn our processes, how they work and what you’ll need to do to achieve the right standard.
• Patient and methodical in putting things together and when necessary, tinkering/adjusting them to get the right result.
• Someone who enjoys problem solving, finding faults and suggesting solutions.
• Experience of working in an engineering or manufacturing environment, meaning you can work to exacting standards and design.
• Have a high attention to detail, combined with a passion for tidiness in your work area!
• Enjoy making positive teamwork contributions to our highly motivated Production teams, delivering continuous improvement and meeting targets.

Previous experience in these responsibilities is advantageous, but we’re interested in people who are keen to learn and want to contribute to a growing company, as full training will be provided. 

Work Arrangement : Onsite 

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age, genetic information or any other factors prohibited by law.

Job Function : Manufacturing & Operations