RF Datalink Production Support Lead
// Role Summary
Join a dynamic team as an RF & Electronics Engineer in a production support lead role for cutting-edge missile system datalink products. This role offers a challenging opportunity to resolve production issues and ensure high yield rates.
// Key Responsibilities
- Lead production support for transceiver-based datalink products.
- Interface between Design Authority and Manufacturing teams.
- Respond to and resolve issues affecting product delivery.
- Conduct factory-based trials and proving activities.
- Gain in-depth understanding of Datalink Products and test equipment.
- Requires HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) checks.
// Role Specification
Production Support Lead - RF & Electronics Engineer
Are you an RF & Electronics Engineer seeking a new challenge in a production-facing design support role? Do you thrive on problem-solving and collaboration in a dynamic environment? Our Production Support Engineering team is growing, and we are seeking a motivated and experienced individual to lead support for transceiver-based datalink products used in industry-leading missile systems.
The Opportunity:
We have a fantastic opportunity for an RF & Electronics Engineer to play a leading role in supporting Datalink production activities at our state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Bolton. Reporting to the Production Design Support Delivery Team Leader, you will primarily act as the liaison between the Design Authority in Stevenage and the various Manufacturing teams in Bolton, working on products in series production and under development.
As a highly motivated, driven, and experienced engineer, you will be required to respond to any issues raised by Manufacturing and/or Design teams that may affect our ability to deliver product, with a strong emphasis on raising and maintaining high yield rates.
You will be expected to demonstrate hands-on, face-to-face production support in many forms, such as:
- Devising and conducting factory-based trials and proving activities.
- Generating formal evidence.
- Effective collaboration with various Engineering & Operations Managers, Quality Assurance, Supply Chain & Design Authorities when resolving unforeseen production issues.
You will be required to generate an in-depth understanding of our Datalink Products & associated Test Equipment designs, including production test requirements, in order to quickly and effectively distinguish the correct root cause of issues.
What we can offer you:
- Company bonus: Up to £2,500 (based on company performance).
- Pension: Maximum total contribution of up to 14%.
- Overtime: Opportunity for paid overtime.
- Flexi Leave: Up to 15 additional days.
- Flexible working arrangements are welcomed.
- Enhanced parental leave: Up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave, with enhancements for paternity leave, neonatal leave, and fertility treatments.
- Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals and free car parking.