Description:
ARD is growing and we’re looking for an Assembly and Test Technician to help us build and test our ruggedized hardware - from field-ready energy and battery systems to the autonomous platforms we deploy in the Arctic. Right now, our biggest constraint isn’t design. It’s the time it takes to assemble and test what we’ve designed.
Reporting to our Senior Test Engineer, you’ll join our engineering team, working alongside our mechanical and electrical engineers and across our main hardware workstreams. You’ll take hands-on ownership of assembly and testing, helping with the practical implementation and testing of engineering designs. Within your first 3 months, you’ll have helped to take assembly and test off the critical path on our key projects, and helped put in place the documentation and test processes that let us build and test consistently, unit after unit.
Core Responsibilities
- Assemble mechanical and electrical sub-assemblies, harnesses, PCBAs, and complete units to drawings and build instructions, so they’re ready for test on schedule.
- Run test phases on assemblies and finished units and record the results accurately, so issues are found and fixed before hardware reaches the field.
- Help set up repeatable test processes, from test plans and rigs to how results are captured, working closely with our Senior Test Engineer.
- Write and maintain build instructions, test procedures and records, raising the standard of our engineering documentation as we scale.
- Spot and report problems found during build and test, giving engineers the detail they need to debug and improve the next design revision.
Requirements
About You
You’re a practical, hands-on technician who takes pride in building things properly and getting the details right. You’re methodical, you like a clear process, and you’d rather write something down than rely on memory. You might come from a technician role in engineering, manufacturing or a test lab, an engineering apprenticeship, the armed forces, or a mechanical or electrical engineering degree with plenty of hands-on build experience.
* Please note: this role is not eligible for visa sponsorship *
Essential
- An engineering qualification (such as an HNC/HND, apprenticeship or degree in mechanical or electrical engineering), or equivalent hands-on experience.
- Hands-on experience assembling mechanical or electrical hardware in a workshop, lab or production setting.
- Experience with basic soldering equipment
- Ability to work from engineering drawings, schematics and written build instructions.
- Experience running tests on hardware and recording the results accurately.
- Confident using common workshop tools and electrical test equipment, such as multimeters and bench power supplies.
- Comfortable owning your own tasks with guidance from the engineering team, and raising problems early when a build or test doesn’t go to plan.
Desirable
- Experience writing or improving build instructions, test procedures or other technical documentation.
- Experience with electrical assembly such as wiring looms, crimping or soldering, or working with battery systems.
- Experience building hardware in small batches or repeat runs, rather than one-off prototypes.
- Experience with surface-mount PCB assembly
Future Security Clearance Requirements
- As our business scales into the defence and security sectors, the responsibilities of this role are expected to evolve to include projects requiring UK Security Check (SC) clearance.
- While an active clearance is not required to apply or start in this role, candidates must be willing and eligible to undergo UK Government security vetting in the future should project requirements dictate it.
- To meet the standard eligibility criteria for UK standard SC vetting, you must typically have resided in the UK for the past 5 continuous years, hold a valid passport, and be capable of passing comprehensive background, financial, and criminal record checks.