Title:  Trainee Calibration Technician

Job Title – Trainee Calibration Technician

Job Location – Brighton

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 – 39797

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.

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)

What the role will involve

In-house training will be provided by our Calibration specialist, and all aspects of the calibration processes and equipment will be covered. Where required, external training courses will be provided by the business which are relevant to Calibration.

The responsibilities of your role will include the following:

• Support and maintain all calibration functions within the Calibration department.
• Publish weekly recall list from the calibration database and actioning / processing recall’s for that week.
• Locating Overdue items for processing in accordance with procedures.
• Gather in and calibration of equipment (mechanical & electrical).
• Obtain quotations and raise purchase orders for calibration of equipment sent to external suppliers and arrange visits for calibration of in-house equipment where required.
• Issuing of gauges to works orders when required by production within the required KPI (Key Performance Indicator) time frame.
• Raising Defect Equipment Notice (DEN) for equipment that does not meet the required specification.
• Supporting KPI’s associated with the Calibration department.
• Maintain the Gauge Tool Management (GTM) database.
• Entering new gauging/equipment on the GTM database and storing gauges in the Supply Point System (SPS).

What you’ll bring

The role requires the following experience and skills:

• PC literate – Word, Excel and database experience
• Work well in a team environment with good communication skills
• Have an organised and methodical approach
• Attention to detail with enthusiasm

Important to know

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.