Engineering Technician

Engineering Technician (Contract) — 6 Months

Location: On site near Bath.
Contract Type: 6-Month Contract
Rate: Dependant on experience 

Our client is a healthcare technology and diagnostics company developing. They're looking for an Engineering Technician to join their engineering team on a 6-month contract, supporting internal development programs and helping resolve reliability issues, trial design improvements, and run tests and experiments alongside scientists and engineers.

This is a hands-on role suited to someone with a strong mechanical/electrical assembly background and a genuine interest in scientific instrumentation.

Key Responsibilities

• Executing repairs and modifications to equipment and simple mechanical presses
• Analysis of defective equipment
• Product and component testing, including reliability testing
• Developing protocols to commission simple production equipment, including equipment qualification
• Promoting cGMP compliance within a pilot production facility
• Maintaining a set of working instruments for day-to-day use

What We're Looking For

• Graduate in Electronic or Mechanical Engineering, or BTEC/equivalent in an engineering discipline
• Experience working with mechanical assembly equipment
• Experience with electrical products and a basic understanding of electronics
• Soldering experience, particularly SMD rework
• Fault-finding and repair experience on production equipment or scientific instruments
• Experience in product testing and failure analysis
• Competent practical skills running and maintaining diverse mechanical test equipment
• Scientific instrumentation experience preferred
• Strong record-keeping skills
• Self-motivated, able to work unaided
• Fully computer literate

This is a great opportunity to join a growing medtech/diagnostics business at an exciting stage of expansion, working on a genuinely innovative point-of-care diagnostic platform.