Job Specification

Role: Trainee Technician
Location: Glasgow, UK
Salary: £26,250.00-£30,000.00
Contract: Permanent appointment

About Synaptec

We are a highly innovative company based in Glasgow, Scotland. Founded in 2015, our goal is to reduce outages and the operational cost of modern, clean power networks by providing advanced monitoring and control systems based on our patented core technologies. Grid operators and clean power generators use our systems across a range of diverse environments on- and off-shore to instantly know the health and performance of their assets over unprecedented distances. To achieve our goals, we recruit the most talented individuals and develop their abilities to the full.

We are committed to boosting productivity and competitiveness through fairness, equality, and sustainable employment. We aim to take full advantage of diversity of experience and thought and to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation or identification, marital status, or race. We are proud to be an accredited Living Wage Employer and member of the Living Wage Foundation.

We conduct ourselves according to four core values:

Technical excellence: We are committed to recruiting the most outstanding engineers, physicists and seasoned industry specialists, and investing in their continuous development.
Openness: We work hard to sustain a culture of openness that underpins honesty, respect, and directness with each other and all stakeholders.
Responsiveness: We thrive on challenge and seek to deeply understand customers’ problems and drivers and respond with creative, robust solutions.
Continuous improvement: We constantly evaluate how we can improve, and we firmly believe that only by continuously adapting and improving can we remain at the frontline of our discipline.

Overview of Role

Synaptec is recruiting a Trainee Technician to join our growing team led by technical and business experts. The Technician will be involved in the production and testing of Synaptec’s sensing technologies; from process design to assembly and calibration. We particularly welcome applications from those keen to undertake a Modern Apprenticeship in Engineering as part of the role on a day-release basis with a suitable Glasgow college.

The role is focussed on instrumentation system production for the power industry, based on Synaptec’s innovative electronic and photonic techniques.Good manual skills and confidencewith tooling and machinery will be important. It is expected that the Technician will gain valuable experience with manufacturing, process development and stock management, and will take opportunities to develop new skills and input at a growing level to Synaptec’s operations.

The main features of the role will include:

Assembling product to designated work instructions
Testing to specified procedures
Documenting build and test information
Rejecting and documenting non-conforming products
Inspection of work in progress
Maintenance of stock item levels
Assisting to improve and refine production processes within the guidance of the wider operations and engineering teams.

The Technician will be involved in Synaptec’s process development and product testing and certification processes and will be given some autonomy to design and conduct processes within the overall guidance of the team.

This is a full-time post based at the Company’s facilities in Glasgow.

Essential criteria

The candidate must be able to demonstrate:

General numeracy and literacy skills
Ability to read and understand work instructions and drawings
Ability to build and test assemblies comprising small electronic components
Ability to prioritise and manage own time to meet specified deadlines
Ability to work effectively as part of a small, focused team
Dediciation to good product traceability through accurate record-keeping
Very good attention to detail
Responsible commitment to safe working practices
A desire and ability to travel within the UK and abroad to third party sites

Differentiating criteria

NC/HNC Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Good problem solving abilities
A keenness to learn new skills and abilities
Experience with electronic assembly, e.g. soldering, printed circuit board assembly, wiring
Experience in a technical production environment
Fibre optics or optoelectronic system knowledge, including practical working knowledge of splicers, optical spectrum analysers, etc.
Familiarity with high voltage environments and equipment

Benefits

Ethical private healthcare
Occupational maternity pay and paternity pay
Invention bonus scheme
Flexible working
Cycle-to-work scheme and secure bicycle parking
Free secure underground car parking
Free electric car charging stations
On site nursery
Holiday purchase scheme
On site subsidised gym membership

About our location

Glasgow location with excellent public transport links.
Glasgow has a famously vibrant arts and culture scene and holds UNESCO Creative City of Music status.
We are an hour's train ride from the east and west coasts of Scotland, home to some of the most beautiful islands in the world.
To the north, we're an hour from Loch Lomond and access to the Scottish mountains.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent, Apprenticeship

Pay: £26,250.00-£30,000.00 per year

Benefits:

Additional leave
Casual dress
Company pension
Cycle to work scheme
Employee stock purchase plan
Enhanced maternity leave
Enhanced paternity leave
Free parking
On-site gym
On-site parking
Referral programme
Sick pay
UK visa sponsorship

Work Location: In person

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