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Position: Mechanical Technician
Location: Cambridgeshire
Salary: £28,000 to £35,000 + Excellent Benefits / Prospects
If there is something stopping you from achieving all you’re capable of, you’ll relish a role with a company that will positively encourage you to be pro-active – a real opportunity to release your true potential.
The Company: Our Client, an innovative dynamic passionate manufactures minimal invasive next-generation robotic-assisted medical devices that are at the forefront of how surgical procedures are carried out. An award-winning company that plans to significantly disrupt the way surgery is performed for the benefit of millions of patients all around the world.
Due to ongoing growth, we’re looking for a Technician to play a key role in testing and validating new electromechanical system designs. You’ll carry out hands-on verification and exploratory testing, running formal test protocols, recording results, and identifying issues across system and subsystem levels. Working with tools such as power supplies, oscilloscopes, multimeters, force gauges, and hand tools, you’ll ensure every test is precise, accurate, and fully documented.
The Person: Candidates suitable for consideration should be able to provide evidence of the following:

  • HNC/HND or Time Served with relevant experience
  • Experience of the manual testing of complex devices and/or systems (ideally in a regulated environment)
  • Experience of using a wide range of measurement and electronic tools (e.g. bench power supplies, multi-meters, oscilloscopes, thermocouples)
  • Experience of management / maintenance of test and measurement equipment
  • Experience in a manual test capacity with complex products
    You will be self-motivated, have excellent communication skills both written and oral, be computer literate, and able to work as part of a team.
    Do you have the courage to take on this challenge?

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