Diagnostician

Location: Belfast, United Kingdom

Thales people architect solutions that are relied upon to deliver operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defensive systems for land, sea, and air. From early warning, to threat neutralisation, our platforms cover all levels from very short-range systems, to extended protection across the entire battle-space including Airspace Mobility Solutions, Vehicles and Tactical Systems and Missile Defence, Optronics, and Radar.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

**Position: Diagnostician**

**Location: Belfast**

**Our Opportunity**

The role of diagnostician will conduct testing assemblies on dedicated test equipment, fault diagnostics using oscilloscopes, multi-meters, bond testers on cables and electrical assemblies. You will work to the quality standards demanded within the missile sub-assembly, assembly environment.

**What the role has to offer**:
This role offers a fantastic opportunity to work with niche technology and interesting products in a supportive environment. Training will be provided and you will have support from 2 other team members on site. We work a 4 day week (9.25 hours per day Monday to Thursday) and offer additional benefits including pension, 201 hours annual leave, health insurance, life insurance and a healthcare cash plan.

**Responsibilities**:

- Testing on electrical assemblies and sub-assemblies to ensure compliance and functionality
- Set up, calibration and routine proving of dedicated test sets and equipment
- Understand, identify and trace faults and error readings on items using electrical test equipment and wiring diagrams
- Effectively relay information on problems and non-conformance to engineering personnel
- Interact with company ERP systems to record results and non-conformance
- Fully adopt the principles of the 5S housekeeping standard.
- Participate in continuous improvement activities with the goal of eliminating waste and reducing operating costs

**About You**:
Thales IAS is committed to hiring individuals with a “can do” and positive attitude with willingness to learn and improve on skills and knowledge. You will be working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment so organisational skills and ability to use own initiative and discretion to diagnose and solve problems will be key. Listed below are some of the key attributes we are looking for:
**Essential skills required**
- HNC, HND or equivalent in an engineering discipline
- Demonstrable experience in electronic fault diagnosis in a production environment or similar
- Must be capable of working to Manufacturing Instruction and Engineering drawings
- Experience in the use of oscilloscopes, multi-meters and bond testers
- Experience working with ESD sensitive devices and assemblies
- Knowledge of and ability to work to quality standards including AS9100
- Experienced PC user MS Word & Excel in particular.
- Demonstrable ability to work under pressure to tight deadlines and customer requirements

**What We Can Offer**

We’re committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry. We hire from within as our first priority, so you’ll have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation.

**Company Story**

The future is full of challenges; each new change and technology will create situations no one has had to deal with before or even anticipated and it will happen at an even faster pace than today.

Our 3 priorities throughout the pandemic remain constant:

- To continue to protect all our employees’ health and financial wellbeing.
- To safeguard the business and continue to deliver for our customers as best we can.
- And, to ensure that Thales is best placed to recover quickly.

Thales is an equal opportunities employer and diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of Thales

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees