Electronics Technician

Job Title: Repair Technician

Location: Amington Industrial Estate, Tamworth, Staffordshire, B77 4DR
Hours of work: Full-time permanent Monday to Friday 8am to 5pm, 1 hour lunch break (occasional overtime available)
Salary: Starting from £12.00 per hour (approx. £25,000 per year), plus commission pay and a clear, achievable means of increasing base salary in line with performance.

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Company Profile

Radwell is an ISO accredited award-winning global leader in industrial automation parts distribution and repair solutions. Recognised as the world’s largest stockist of 35+ million parts their facility in Newcastle-under-Lyme serves 75,000 customers in 179 countries, including customers in the Food Processing, Energy, Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing and Automotive sectors.

Job Outline

Experienced Electronic Repair Technicians are required with an electronics / industrial automation background to join an expanding team within Radwell International’s production and engineering department based at our Tamworth Branch. An experience in the following areas would be very advantageous;

• Robotics
• Program and troubleshoot 6-axis robots (ABB, Fanuc, Yaskawa/Motoman, Kuka, etc).

Repair electronic equipment in used within Robotics such as servo amplifiers, Drives and power supplies

• DC Tooling
• Determine and undertake all necessary preventative maintenance on Electric Assembly Tool products.

To carry out calibration, testing and certification of all Atlas Copco Electric Assembly Tool products.To work from blown/exploded views and diagrams of DC tool Nutrunner and Electric screwdrivers in the Atlas Copco range such as ETV, ETD, ETC, ETP, QMX and QST.The Repair Technician role involves, but is not limited to, the repair and/or calibration of industrial controls including printed circuit boards (PCB’s), timers, counters, programmable logic controllers (PLC’s), drives, human machine interfaces (HMI’s) and temperature & process controls. Experience in the servo and/or robotics industry would be a plus.

Responsibilities include test functionality of each unit repaired, ordering parts for each unit processed and updating tracking notes in a customer retention management (CRM) system reflecting the steps take to repair each unit. Technicians are required to perform repairs of units down to component level, using good soldering and troubleshooting skills. Use of test equipment (oscilloscope, multi-meter, function generator) and test fixtures is necessary to ensure the complete and proper repair of each unit.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Soldering to a high level
• Troubleshooting down to component level
• Using a range of test equipment
• 90% bench level electronic and electro-mechanical / 10% documentation of actions taken on each item and team communication
• Ordering parts to assist with repairs
• Clean, check, service and test repaired items to ensure it is fit for purpose.
• Communicating with and reporting to a Repair Supervisor
• Required to bring your own tools as specified by the hiring manager

Required: Knowledge and Skills

• Strong technical skills; ability to learn and understand Radwell repair of Industrial Controls processes and procedures
• Must understand the repair of Industrial Controls cycle
• Ability to troubleshoot and solder components is required
• Have a logical approach to fault finding
• The ability to understand wiring schematics and fault find electrical circuits
• Use of a CRM system in past roles
• Ability to work at fast pace
• Attention to detail
• Use of hand and power tools
• Must be incentive driven.

Required: Qualifications and Experience

• A recognised Electrical / Electronic Engineering Qualification is required
• Experience in the Industry or a similar repair environment a distinct advantage
• GCSE minimum grade C’s in a science subject, Mathematics and English

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £25,000.00-£29,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Company events
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Health & wellbeing programme
• Life insurance
• On-site parking
• Referral programme
• Sick pay
• Store discount

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus scheme
• Commission pay
• Performance bonus

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Tamworth: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: 2742