Job Description
Electrical Safety Test Engineer Ref. 940\n\nDepartment: Manufacturing\n\nSalary: £36,330 - £39,045\n\nJob description\n\nThis role is available full-time for 37 hours per week.\n\nFlexible or compressed working patterns available.\n\nDo you want to work somewhere a little bit different?\n\nWhere you also play a part in national security engineering?\n\nDo you want to expand and develop your existing electrical safety testing\nskills?\n\nMaybe in an environment that you have never experienced or considered before?\n\nWorking in our advanced manufacturing facility, you will use your existing\nskills and experience within a team of manufacturing engineers working on\nprojects critical to protect national security.\n\nYou will use your skills and knowledge in areas such as: evaluating bespoke\nproducts and documentation to the test standards; and writing and reviewing\nevaluation reports.\n\nNo two days are the same. One day you could be completing an evaluation, the\nnext you could be assessing material properties.\n\nYou will have hands on involvement in evaluating products for use in a wide\nrange of scenarios from low powered devices to high voltage systems.\n\nYoull enjoy working as part of a team and the opportunities that provides to\nboth develop and share your knowledge and skills.\n\nMore About You\n\nTo apply for this role, you will already have:\n\n * A background in product safety testing.\n * A clear understanding of safety engineering and assurance principles.\n * Experience and knowledge in one or more electrical safety standards e.g.
BS EN 62368, BS EN 61010, BS EN 60335.\n * IT skills; particularly in Microsoft Office applications.\n\nTo strengthen your application, it would be beneficial if you also have:\n\n * Experience of safety critical function designdevelopment of electrical products.\n * An understanding of different certification schemes.\n * Ability to fault find down to component level.\n\nYour Personal Skills\n\nYou will be the type of person who:\n\n * Enjoys coming up with creative solutions.\n * Wants to improve on yesterday - striving to be the best you can.\n * Makes mistakes. And learns from them.\n * Enjoys being part of a team. From offering to make the next tea round to providing consultation to a team of developers.\n * Can go with the flow.
Change is a big part of our organisation. You will be able to adapt with the support of your team and management.\n * Likes to ensure that high standards are achieved but isnt afraid to challenge the standard.\n * Wants to make a difference. You understand the importance of what we do and take pride in doing your best.\n\nPutting your skills to use\n\n * Complete electrical safety evaluations and reports.\n * Evaluate products and documentation to ensure they meet the requirements of applicable test standards.\n * Ensure evaluations are completed to standard and within set timescales.\n * Utilise your knowledge of processes and standards to develop and build the capability.\n\nWhat we Offer\n\nNow that weve explained a bit about what you will we be doing, heres what we\ncan offer you\n\n * 25 days annual leave, rising to 30 after 5 years service.\n * 8 Bank Holiday days off in addition to your annual leave.\n * 2 ½ additional days leave (set dates through the year).\n * Paid overtime or time off in lieu.
Your salary is for your contracted hours. If you work more, we believe you should be rewarded for that.\n * Training. Lots and lots of training.
This can be anything from a ½ day internal course to a distant learning degree. If its relevant to your career, we will aim to support you.\n * Pension. Our Pension scheme is Alpha.
Its competitive.\n * Sports & Social Society. Whether its classic cars or baking, golf or crafting, we have a society for you.\n * On site nursery (subject to availability).\n * 3 days paid leave a year to support a registered charity of your choice.\n * Free parking.\n * Free onsite gym, open 24 hours a day.\n * Relocation Loan*.\n * Affinity Groups - whether you are disabled, LGBTQ andor from an ethnic minority. We provide an inclusive environment and support for everyone.\n\nAbout HMGCC\n\nWe are HMGCC, the engineering specialists at the heart of the UKs national\nsecurity.\n\nWe work with the national security community, UK government, academia, private\nsector partners and international allies to bring engineering ingenuity to the\nnational security mission, creating tools and technologies that drive us ahead\nand help to protect the nation.\n\nWe invest in our people, not only with training but also support throughout\nyour career with us; to allow you to reach your full potential at work, as\nwell as enjoy the worklife balance many aspire to.\n\nTo find out more about us and if were right for you, please visit our\nwebsite.\n\nEqual Opportunities\n\nInclusion and diversity really matters to us.
Its not just about numbers or\nvisible differences.\n\nHMGCC are committed to providing equal opportunities and encourage\napplications from candidates of all backgrounds, ethnicities, gender\nidentities, sexual orientations, and those with disabilities or who are\nneurodiverse.\n\nWere not looking for any one type of person. Were looking for talent from\nall different backgrounds to join our organisation, where we genuinely respect\nand value each others differences, as well as our similarities. It makes us\neven better at what we do.\n\nWe are proud to offer candidates the opportunity to apply through the Offer of\nInterview Scheme.
The scheme ensures eligible candidates are selected for an\ninterview as long as their application meets the minimum criteria for the\nrole. To find out more and how you can apply under this scheme, please see the\ninclusion and diversity information on our website.\n\nApply now\n\nDiscover more by clicking apply.\n\nOur Recruitment Team will process your application once the role has closed\nand everyone will get a response.\n\nPlease note dependent on the recruitment requirements, we withhold the right\nto bring forward the closing date for this role from the original closing\ndate.\n\n*If you are relocating to the area and renting a property then we can offer an interest free relocation loan of up to £2,500, which is to be repaid in instalments over a period of 24 months.