Calibration technician

Quality Calibration Technician

Livingston, on site

Permanent, full time

Benefits:

• £: Competitive salary

• Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution)

• 6 times salary ‘Life Assurance’ with pension

• 25 days holiday (increasing with service) + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days (37hr)

• Company bonus scheme (discretionary)

• Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work amongst others

• Enhanced sick pay

• Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave

Work Culture

• 37hr working week, although hours may vary depending on role, job requirement or site-specific arrangements.

• Early 1.30pm finish Friday, start your weekend early!

• Remote, hybrid and site based working opportunities, dependant on your needs and the requirements of the role. 

• Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year. 

• Flexible working culture focused on output, with more formal flexible working arrangements on request (assessed subject to role) - please highlight any requests to the Talent Acquisition team. 

About us

At Raytheon UK, we take immense pride in being a leader in defence and aerospace technology. As an employer, we are dedicated to fuelling innovation, nurturing talent, and fostering a culture of excellence.
As a leading defence and aerospace company operating across the United Kingdom, Raytheon UK helps to solve our customers’ toughest challenges. We are a major supplier to the UK government and customers around the globe, providing defence solutions across all domains: land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. We also provide digital and training transformation solutions to commercial and military customers.

Role & Responsibilities

The key responsibility of this role will be to carry out in process Calibration of the toolsets and hardware at our Manufacturing sites ensuring it meets the strict quality standards to enable customer delivery requirements.

Working as part of a supportive Quality Control and Quality Assurance Team, the successful candidate will be centrally responsible for calibration activities whilst engaging with key stakeholders across Raytheon’s Integrated Project Teams. This role will work closely with our Calibration Lead and report to the Senior Quality Engineer.

Required experience

• Strong Quality Mindset with Excellent attention to detail

• Experience with calibration methodologies, certifications, lab environments

• Metrology & Mechanical skillset and/or experience in other technical inspection discipline

• IT literate with database experience

• A solid understanding of calibration, measurement principles, and regulatory compliance

• Excellent numerical accuracy and data-handling skills

• Effective time management and prioritisation or workload

• Proactive approaches to risk reduction, to prevent & resolve issues and remove nonvalue add processes.

Desirable experience 

• Trained in metrology equipment, awareness of AS9100

  HNC/HND; Apprenticeship, Eng discipline or equivalent qualification or work experience

• Risk assessments or safety training

• ISO or AS Quality standard awareness, British Standards, ISO 10012, ISO17025, UKAS & ANSI540

• Experience in electronics manufacture

RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.