Energetic Materials - Technician

Energetic Materials – Technician
12 months
£26.84ph umbrella (Inside IR35).

An Energetics Materials Technician is required to support a broad range of activities within the BAE Systems Land UK business. The selected candidate will support new technology development projects for future energetic materials and support product and process development in small, medium and high volume environments. Working as part of the Engineering and Technology teams, the role will ensure that our products meet exacting quality and performance requirements.

Typical duties include
This role involves assisting with the Engineering and Technology Teams at BAE Systems Land UK in the small scale manufacture and testing of energetic materials. The candidate will assist Energetic Material/Process subject matter experts in providing energetic material advice and support.

The role holder is responsible for taking reasonable care of their own health and safety ensuring high standards for safety, health and environment (SHE) in our organisation are maintained. This includes co-operating and following all reasonable instruction, information and training reporting work-related hazards or incidents and using all equipment for the purpose intended. More detailed responsibilities are captured within the Company Health & Safety Policy (759/OF/016) and the Company Environmental Policy (759/OF/029).

The role holder is responsible for taking reasonable care of their own health and safety, ensuring high standards for safety, health and environment (SHE) in our organisation are maintained, understood, implemented and followed by their team. This includes co-operating and following all reasonable instruction, information and training reporting work-related hazards or incidents, using all equipment for the purpose intended, setting high standards for SHE, leading by example and establishing the expectation that others do the same promoting risk awareness, ensuring that risks are assessed and adequately controlled, encouraging the team to report incidents and defects and make suggestions to improve SHE standards and ensuring actions to address SHE issues are prioritised and resourced appropriately. More detailed responsibilities are captured within the Company Health & Safety Policy (759/OF/016) and the Company Environmental Policy (759/OF/029).


Knowledge:
A recognised science qualification, to minimum A-Level/HND/HNC, preferably with a knowledge of chemistry.

Skills
Ability to work within a close team and to stringent safety processes.
Good practical skills in a laboratory or engineering environment.