Test Technician in Abingdon - Crowcon Detection Instruments Ltd.

Job Description Test and Verification Graduate

Crowcon Detection Instruments Ltd. is looking to recruit a Test and Verification Technician. Reporting to the T&V Team Leader, this exciting role involves collaborating with a broad technical team to assure the functionality, integrity, and robustness of all new and existing gas detection products.

Company: Crowcon Detection Instruments Ltd, 172 Brook Drive, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxfordshire

About Us
We have been designing and manufacturing life-saving products for 50 years, protecting people from toxic and flammable gases.If you’ve got the Reporting to the Test & Verification Team Leader ambition to make a difference, then read on!

Crowcon Detection Instruments Ltd. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Halma plc. Halma’s (www.halma.com) purpose is growing a safer, cleaner, healthier future for everyone, every day. We are a market leader in specialist safety, health, and environmental technologies, a global group of businesses developing solutions that push the boundaries of science and technology.

Headquartered in the UK, Halma is a FTSE 100 company with a current market capitalisation of ~£9B (April 2021). It is one of the top performing businesses in the FTSE index with many years of record revenues and profits. The group has nearly 50 businesses operating through three sectors (Medical, Environmental & Analysis and Safety) in more than 20 countries and major operations in Europe, North and South America and Asia, supplying customers in 160 countries and employing more than 8,500 people worldwide.

Crowcon’s purpose is:
To create sensing solutions designed to save lives every day.

Crowcon’s values are:
Do the right thing.
Collaborate and support each other.
Always do your best.
Try new things.
Be yourself.

The team is made up as follows:

Technical Director
T&V Team
Electronics Team
Software Team
Mechanical Design
Project Management

What will you be doing?
Work with processes and procedures to assure the functionality, integrity, and robustness of all new and existing products.
Report on the progress of product testing, including any associated risks.
Contribute to the writing and review of product documentation.
Design and develop automated test systems to verify product requirements are fully satisfied.
Support the multidisciplinary development team to provide pre-qualification and verification testing.
Help to innovate and drive continuous improvement in testing & verification.

Your skills & experience
Formal higher level technical qualifications within a relevant discipline, such as HNC Engineering or degree, preferably in electronics.
Flexible and a can-do attitude towards work.
Ability to work with own initiative and have an innovative approach to problem solving.
Ability to use standard MS software packages as well as bespoke test software.
Personal drive to learn new skills.
Excellent written/verbal communication/presentation skills.
The desire to learn and to undertake a wide range of work-based challenges which will progress your technical engineering ability.

About you
You are straightforward and have no interest in politics.
You are curious and disrupt the status quo.
You are fiercely collaborative.
You are culturally sensitive and have an international outlook.
You are a creative and able to translate requirements into delivering tangible results.
You turn complex problems into simple issues.

Company benefits:
Generous company pension (up to 10.5% matched on a sliding scale)
Company shares
Health cashplan (Medicash)
Eyecare scheme (with Specsavers)
Corporate life insurance
25 days holiday
Your birthday off (after 1 year of service)
3 days holiday purchase
14 weeks paid maternity, paternity, adoption leave
Cycle to work scheme
Subsidised annual bus pass
Annual train ticket payment scheme
Employee Assistance programme
Learning and Development opportunities
Free parking and subsidised EV charging points

Equal Opportunity Statement
Don’t have every single listed skill/experience? Studies have shown that women and people from diverse backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Crowcon we are actively building and encouraging a diverse and inclusive workplace culture, so if you’re excited about this role as the next step of your career, but you don’t feel confident you have enough past experience to perfectly align with the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or another role we may have.