Calibration Controller

Location: Templecombe, United Kingdom

Thales people provide armed forces customers with operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defence mission systems solutions at land, sea, and air. Our platforms extend across the battlespace including Above and Sonar, Electronic Combat, and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance systems.

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.

**Calibration Controller**

**Templecombe**

**Our Opportunity**

As a Calibration Controller, you will be responsible for the management, administration and control of Measurement Equipment, Special-to-type Test Equipment for the UWS Templecombe & Cheadle Heath Sites.

**What the role has to offer**:

- Act as a primary user and site co-ordinator for the MEMS system and processes
- Monitor and report KPIs
- Order and return General Purpose Test Equipment as requested
- Generate and publish out of calibration and overdue hire reports as appropriate in order to allow users to optimise usage and return of test equipment
- Liaise with MEMS users and the MEMS Management Team to ensure continual improvements to the system are proposed and carried forward
- Maximise usage of MEMS
- Supply test equipment requirements and usage information to Operations Management and MEMS Teams to ensure that appropriate purchases are proposed and carried forward
- Control and administrate Notifications of Deviation
- Produce and release of Calibration and Safety labelling
- Manage transfer of all STTE and relevant records
- Liaise with external test equipment manufacturers and internal test equipment users in order to arrange and organise relevant trials and demonstrations
- Management and control of storage areas within the test department in order to optimise usage
- Scan and electronically store documentation as appropriate
- Generate relevant metrics for the Test Department as directed by Industrial Operations Management
- Ensure that all Reference System processes relevant to the calibration and maintenance of test equipment reflect current working practices and are updated as necessary
- Ensure that all documentation is compliant to Thales standards
- Ensure colleagues are informed and supported, where deficiencies are found, to ensure correct procedures are adhered to
- Conduct and manage other asset related verifications such as ESD control measures and lifting equipment

**About You**
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate at all levels both verbally and written.
- Experience in a manufacturing environment with low volumes and be-spoke production
- Computer literate & experience with using Outlook, Word & Excel
- Experience of AS9100, IS0 9001, ISO 14001 and OHASAS18001 standards is desirable
- Experience of a culture change from a traditional manufacturing environment to a culture of continuous improvement
- A good standard of general education is required to GCSE level or equivalent
- Attention to detail and ability to ensure all work is carried out accurately and conscientiously.

**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.

**Flexibility**

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.

If you are interested in this role, we would encourage you to have informal chat with the assigned recruiter.

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

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