Calibration Technician

Role: Calibration Technician

Location: Corby (onsite)

We are currently seeking a Calibration Technician to join our wider calibration team onsite at our Corby facility, you will perform time critical calibration to customers’ requirements on instrumentation purchased new from our RS catalogue and on both RS supplied and Non-RS supplied instrumentation returned by the customer for recalibration in compliance with the Company’s UKAS and BSI approvals.

What you will be doing:

As part of the team you will be required to calibrate test & measurement instruments to exact requirements set out by ISO17025 & UKAS. A required level of productivity is required to ensure that service levels to our customers are met, to enable items to be despatched within the departments published turnaround times. The role will also require you to support the department within a pre-calibration tests, administration tasks and Material Handling when necessary. Interpreting a product specification in order to prove manufactures claims and to produce a calibration certificate. Communicating to customers and colleagues identifying any failed calibration and cause Working and behaving as a team to achieve set departmental objectives.

What do I need to be successful?

If you have the following skills and experience, we want to hear from you:

A passion for science and/or engineering, with a technical background Customer focused Great collaborative worker. Ability to prioritise assigned tasks effectively. Evidence of working effectively with others Degree/ City & Guilds / ONC / BTEC in a relevant STEM field (or equivalent experience) Microsoft Office skills, particularly in Excel Experience in a calibration environment would be an advantage

We are RS Group.

At RS we’ve been solving engineering problems for over 80 years: big ones, small ones, easy and difficult ones. We turn the ‘what ifs’ into the ‘why nots’, turning customer challenges into achievements. ​

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Across the industrial design, manufacturing and maintenance worlds, we’re the digital destination for product and service solutions to help our customers with the maintenance, repair and operation of their businesses.

Together, we have one purpose: To make amazing happen for a better world – and have fun doing it. ​It won’t always be easy, but we’ll make every day better. It’s in the DNA of our people to do the right thing and deliver brilliant results. We’ll invest in your development and wellbeing – because building a more diverse and inclusive culture, being ethical, responsible and committed to our Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) action plan is at the heart of everything we do. ​

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