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Job Title – Assembly Operator
Job Location – Brighton
Job ID – 41015
About this opportunity and L3Harris UK
From 11 UK sites, our team of nearly 1,000 people delivers unique capabilities across space, air, land, sea, and cyber for military, security, and commercial customers across the UK and worldwide.
L3Harris in Brighton are part of Release Systems and the Mission Avionics sector operating in the Aerospace domain. Our mission-critical release systems equipment is on most major airborne fighter platforms worldwide, including the F-35, along with other aircraft like the Gripen and Typhoon. Brighton designs, manufactures, and tests a large portion of its release systems portfolio. This facility offers 48,500 square feet of manufacturing space for the development of high-performance, multi-station solutions used to launch air-to-air and air-to-ground munitions from bay, wing, or fuselage stations.
Our Brighton business is moving to a new location in 2027. The new site is expected to be located in either Shoreham, Burgess Hill, or Horsham and will be within a 15-minute drive of our current site.
A few of our employee benefits are:
- Half day finish on a Friday
- 25 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays), increasing with long service and with the opportunity to buy/sell up to 5 days
- Private medical insurance with optional family cover
- Pension scheme of up to 8% employer contribution
- Life Assurance 4x salary (flexible up to 10x)
- Group income protection
- Flexible opt-in extras such as a health care cash plan, dental insurance, gym membership, critical illness cover, and cycle to work scheme
- Employee assistance program providing mental health and wellbeing support
- Professional membership reimbursement (discretionary)
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What the role will involve
The responsibilities of your role will include the following:
- Build and test precision electro/mechanical motors and various other precision components used on aircraft to drawing and relevant quality requirements.
- Assemblies include solder wires, tags, components to boards or terminals, bearing fitting, measurement of shaft radial and end play.
- Carry out electrical test and inspection to drawings and specification using appropriate equipment such as oscilloscopes, multi-metres, vibration rigs, and environmental ovens.
- Assess returns for repair/refurbishment and determine repair requirements DIR’s (Defect Investigation Report). Strip, clean, test, and re-build to specification.
- Complete test documentation and all relevant paperwork and maintain traceability of individual parts.
- Conduct their work in a safe manner. Use PPE where appropriate.
- When required, carry out other reasonable tasks outside of the normal pattern of work as requested by the respective manager.
- Assist in training other members of staff when required.
- To personnel manage within authorized limits when supervisor is absent.
- To support design department in trials and pre-production units.
- To liaise and support MED (Manufacturing Engineering Department) in the writing of the manufacturing process (route card narrative and plannings). Offer process improvement and ensure a smooth transition of first batches of production units from design.
- Support activities in the other assembly departments as and when required.
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What you’ll bring
The role requires the following experience and skills:
- Electro-Mechanical engineering apprenticeship or equivalent experience
- ATE (Automatic Test Equipment) & Cirris test equipment experience
- Experience in using precision measuring equipment and electronic test equipment such as: DMM, Megger’s, oscilloscope, power suppliers, etc.
- Good understanding of Mechanical and Electrical Drawings.
Important to know
Applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment must meet the requirement of the right to work in the UK and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information and will be subject to government security checks.
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