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Laboratory Technician

Rubicon Consulting
Lisburn
4 months ago
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Laboratory Technician

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Laboratory Technician

Laboratory Technician

Laboratory Technician

Rubicon Consulting is currently recruiting for a Test technician on a 18 month contract, based in LisburnRole Summary:The technology domain area is class leading diagnostic and monitoring equipment for electricity distribution, including Dissolved Gas Analysis, high speed FPGA based monitoring electronics and the software infrastructure necessary to build a distributed monitoring environment for a variety of worldwide customers.As the Systems under test contain both Software and Hardware sub-systems, which are designed in-house; the Laboratory Technician System Test Engineer role is within a multidisciplinary environment.The Laboratory Technician will be the primary aspect of this role, which will involve the setup and configuration of the equipment in our on-site Lab as listed below. This will be an onsite role based in Lisburn.The System Test Engineer is responsible for reviewing requirements and for verifying that the products fulfil their functional and performance requirements by test. This will be secondary priority of this role which give the Lab Technician the chance to develop skills in a FW QA testing role as part of an Agile SW/FW QA team in Lisburn and HTC.What you will do:• Testing, adjusting, calibrating, and maintaining laboratory equipment with apparatus such as Signal generators, Multi-metres, Oscilloscopes, Oil Line connections and Oil bottle setups.• Setting up unit configurations by changing PCB boards, add-on modu...

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