Tube Assembly Technician - Welder

Rapiscan Systems, Inc.; Salfords; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Rapiscan Systems, Inc. is seeking a Welder to join the tube production area. The role focuses on welding large x-ray tube components, maintaining safety and quality, and working across an evolving shift pattern with occasional overtime.

You will support continuous improvement initiatives and ensure high standards in a controlled clean-room environment. The ideal candidate has TIG welding experience, familiarity with UHV technologies, and a disciplined approach to manufacturing processes, with

Qualifications

• Proven TIG welding experience.
• Desirable: knowledge of UHV technology.
• Desirable: autogenous welding experience.
• Desirable: UHV leak testing experience.
• Desirable: clean-room experience.

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for H&S of all welding personnel and processes.
• Set, align and weld precision stainless steel parts.
• Inspect own work and others to ensure high quality.
• Highlight improvements and implement improvement plans.
• Maintain target production output.
• Ensure safety-related processes and compliance (gas handling, COSHH, HSE).
• Develop welding skill base to support tube assembly.
• Maintain clean room environment to avoid contamination.
• Review and contribute to work instructions and assembly checklists.
• Participate in and promote production improvement initiatives.
• Familiarize with all assembly tasks in the tube area.

Skills

Flexibility

Independence

Initiative

Discipline

Fastidiousness

Education

HNC or ONC in Engineering or related discipline

5s / process improvement experience

Experience coaching TIG welding trainees

Knowledge of manufacturing processes

Trained in compressed gas handling

Job description

Overview

Rapiscan Systems is an industry leader in detection technology, providing cargo and vehicle inspection systems and services for ports, borders, military, high-threat facilities, and checkpoints to help customers combat terrorism, drug smuggling, illegal immigration, and trade fraud. We offer a broad array of scanning system configurations that leverage low-, medium-, and high-energy X-ray technology—or multiple X-ray technologies—to address each customer’s unique security application requirements. Our commitment to excellence in imaging performance, innovative design, and uncompromising quality ensures our solutions consistently deliver best-in-class imaging, high reliability, and operator satisfaction, to help customers find threats and contraband with ease and confidence

Overview of Role

Play a key role in the assembly and fabrication of large x-ray tubes. The role will primarily involve the running of all facets of the welding process in the tube production area.

The welder will be responsible for all safety related processes and compliance associated with the welding process (Compressed gasses, COSH, HSE etc.).

The Welder will need to work on a rotating shift pattern of early and lates, infrequent opportunities for overtime to cover staff shortages, special projects and volume recovery

The Welder will support the manufacturing engineer promoting continuous improvement within the tube assembly process to reduce assembly times whilst monitoring quality and output.

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for H & S of all welding personnel and processes.


• Be responsible for setting, alignment and welding of precision Stainless steel parts


• Be responsible for inspecting of own work and those of others, ensuring high level of quality within the work area


• Highlighting improvements and issues and being able to instigate improvement plans


• Being able to maintain output of target production.


• Be responsible for all safety related processes and compliance associated with the welding process (Compressed gasses, COSHH, HSE etc.).


• Ensure the welding skill base is developed to ensure the tube assembly process is always supported.


• Maintain the clean room environment to avoid particulate contamination and to ensure the highest possible standards of cleanliness.


• Review and contribute to the development of work instructions and assembly checklists.


• Participate and promote production improvement initiatives.


• Be completely familiar with all assembly tasks in the tube assembly area.

Key Skills

• Flexibility - will have sufficient knowledge to be capable of standing in for other technicians working in different areas of the tube production


• Independence - to be able to work without supervision


• Initiative – the make considered decisions and take appropriate actions where required


• Discipline - to ensure maintenance of best possible working practice within the clean rooms.


• Fastidiousness - Great attention to detail and is required to maintain the highest standards of mechanical assembly.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in TIG welding processes.


• Proven experience in UHV technology - desirable


• Experience of autogenous welding - desirable


• UHV leak checking experience - desirable.


• Previous clean-room experience - desirable.

Knowledge, Training and Qualifications if required

• 5s, and process improvement experience an advantage.


• Ability to coach TIG welding trainees to an appropriate level to support tube production.


• Knowledge of all facets of manufacturing processes.


• Trained in all aspects of compressed gas handling.


• HNC or ONC in an Engineering or Scientific discipline and/or suitable work experience would be desirable but is not essential