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.

**Primary Purpose of the Role**:
Provide a flexible, adaptable, efficient and effective service to our internal/external customers, at all times. To work as a diagnostician, testing assemblies on dedicated test equipment, fault diagnostics using oscilloscopes, multi-meters, bond testers etc on cables and electrical assemblies, to the quality standards demanded within the missile sub-assembly, assembly environment.

**Key Responsibilities and Tasks**:

- Testing on electrical assemblies and sub-assemblies used within Thales to ensure compliance and functionality.
- Setting up, calibration and routine proving of dedicated test sets and equipment.
- Understand and identify faults within items being tested
- Trace faults and error readings on items under test, using electrical test equipment and wiring diagrams
- Technical discussions with engineering personnel, to effectively relay information on problems and non-conformance
- Interact with company ERP systems to record results and non-conformance
- To fully adopt the principles of the 5’s housekeeping standard.
- Participate in the Continuous Improvement activities that are ongoing within the work place with the goal of eliminating waste and reduce operating costs.(Lean)

**Skills**

**Essential**
- Experienced PC user MS Word & Excel in particular.
- Manual dexterity.
- Quick learner.
- Working within a team.
- Ability to work under pressure (to tight deadlines)
- Must be capable of working to Manufacturing Instruction and Engineering drawings
- Knowledge of and ability to work to the quality standards required within the missile industry
- Analytical thinker (fault finding)
- Experience in the use of oscilloscopes, multi-meters, bond testers
- Understanding and experience working with ESD sensitive devices and assemblies
- Can Do Attitude

**Desirable**
- City & Guilds or equivalent.
- Lean 5s experience

**Experience**:
**Essential**
- At least 3 years electronic fault diagnosis in a Production environment or similar
- Demonstrable ability to work under pressure to tight deadlines and customer requirements

**Desirable**
- Telecommunications systems knowledge, and testing skills
- Fault finding, and repair of looms and circuit boards down to component level

**Values & Behaviours**:

- Focus on Customers
- Perform through teaming
- Innovate
- Develop our people

**Qualifications**:
**Essential**
- City & Guilds Electronics or equivalent.

**Desirable**
- ONC/BTEC Electronics or equivalent Key desirable skills required for the position

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 each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working.

Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment,** **if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Resourcing Ops for mid to senior roles, or the Early Careers Team for graduate and apprentice roles.