L3Harris Technologies
Mechanical Inspector
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Job Title – Mechanical Inspector
Job Location – Brighton, UK
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.
Job ID – 44013
About this opportunity and L3Harris UK
Operating at 11 sites in the United Kingdom, L3Harris supports Britain's mission to secure and strengthen the country by delivering sovereign innovation across the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains.
L3Harris in Brighton are part of our Release Systems & Antennas division operating in the Aerospace domain. For over 70 years, L3Harris has designed and developed industry-leading carriage and release systems for fighter, rotary-wing and unmanned platforms and we design, manufacture and test a large portion of our release systems portfolio in our Brighton facility which offers 48,500 square feet of manufacturing space. 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.
Please note, 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, cycle to work scheme, travel insurance and electric car scheme
- Employee Family Assistance Program providing mental health and wellbeing support
- Professional membership reimbursement (discretionary)
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What the role will involve
Mechanical inspection to include all listed below plus Calibration support when required.
The responsibilities of your role will include the following:
Inspection
- Inspection of precision components from in-house manufacture/assembly, sub-contractors and suppliers.
- First off inspection for manufactured parts/assemblies.
- First article inspection (FAI) reporting for single level parts and multi-level assemblies.
- Update and maintain paperwork associated with inspection procedures.
- Liaise with subcontractors and suppliers when required.
- Source inspection (VAS inspect at suppliers).
- Patrol inspection of manufacturing areas.
- Raising Non-conformance reports (NCR’s) and dimensional reports.
- Liaise with Quality, Manufacturing Engineering, design & Production Control when required to support production requirements.
Calibration Support (training provided)
- Supporting the calibration Technician and functions within the Calibration department.
- Publish weekly recall list and action.
- Locating Overdue items and processing in accordance with procedures.
- Gather in and calibration of equipment (mechanical & electrical).
- Obtain quotations and raise purchase orders for calibration of equipment sent out and arrange visits for calibration of in-house equipment where required.
- Issuing of gauges when required by production.
- Maintain the Gauge Tool Management (GTM) database.
- Entering new gauging/equipment on the GTM database and storing gauges in the Supply Point System (SPS).
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What you’ll bring
The role requires the following experience and skills:
- Minimum of 3 year’s experience, working in an inspection, machine shop or calibration environment.
- Experience in using precision measuring equipment
- Good understanding of Mechanical Inspection & Calibration techniques
- Good working knowledge of ISO 9001:2001 and ideally AS9100 Rev D
- PC literate – Word, Excel and database experience
- Manufacturing experience (mechanical)
- Ability to interpret Engineering Drawings
- Ability to interpret Geometric Tolerances
Desirable experience or skills:
- Calibration experience
- CMM operation / programming experience
- Q-Pulse Software (FAIR)
- Tensile testing experience for Product Quality Testing (PQT)
- Universal Linear Measurement (ULM). Equipment for measuring Thread, plug and ring gauges etc.
Important to know
Due to the nature of our work many our roles require a UK nationality and the ability to obtain a security clearance. Applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment must meet the requirement of 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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