Photonics Maintenance Technician – Late Shift

Gooch & Housego; Torquay; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday (plus bank holidays)

Corporate Cash Plan

Salary sacrifice pension

Enhanced Employee Assistance Programme

Job summary

Gooch & Housego seeks a Manufacturing Maintenance Technician for their Torquay site. You will support production lines with planned and unplanned maintenance on fibre optic and photonic equipment, ensuring calibration is current and records are up to date.

The role requires hands-on maintenance experience in a manufacturing environment, with the ability to work a late shift schedule from Monday to Friday. Training and knowledge sharing will be part of the responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Must have mechanical/electronics/electrical background with appropriate certificates.
• Experience as a maintenance technician in a manufacturing setting is essential.
• Experience maintaining fibre optic and photonic test equipment is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Provide manufacturing maintenance as required according to procedures.
• Support Engineering development by providing maintenance support when required.
• Perform planned, routine maintenance as per scheduled service periods
• Ensure all equipment requiring calibration has valid certification and calibration has been performed as per appropriate procedures.
• Record and identify all equipment within database and asset register accordingly.
• Maintain traceability of all equipment on-site
• Ensure the Maintenance Scheduling software is kept up to date with relevant calibration/service dates and all repair/work are entered accordingly.
• Ensure all manufacturing equipment is functional and in good working order. Repair as necessary/instructed.
• Install and retrofit new equipment or machinery as required.
• Provide training/knowledge sharing to new and existing technicians.
• Use of manual handling skills to re-locate equipment or Production lines when required.

Education

Mechanical/Electronics/Electrical C&G, BTEC, ONC, HNC

Maintenance/Technician experience

Fibre Optic & Photonic equipment maintenance

Fault finding to component level

Equipment calibration knowledge

Manufacturing environment experience

Job description

Gooch & Housego seeks a Manufacturing Maintenance Technician for their Torquay site. You will support production lines with planned and unplanned maintenance on fibre optic and photonic equipment, ensuring calibration is current and records are up to date.

The role requires hands-on maintenance experience in a manufacturing environment, with the ability to work a late shift schedule from Monday to Friday. Training and knowledge sharing will be part of the responsibilities.