Job Title: SMT Process Technician
Location: Lewes, East Sussex
Salary: Up to £37,000 DOE
Hours: 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday, starting between 07:00/07:30 and finishing between 15:30/16:00
TPA Recruit are looking for an SMT Process Technician to join their SMT department at an exciting stage of growth and technological change.
This SMT Process Technician position will suit a practical, hands-on SMT professional who can support process machinery, minimise downtime, maintain quality standards and contribute to continuous improvement across a busy electronics manufacturing environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain, service and repair SMT process machinery to minimise downtime while protecting quality standards
- Create and control equipment programmes as instructed
- Support process changes, layout improvements and production flow across the facility
- Contribute to improvement meetings, new equipment justification and continuous process development
- Maintain close working relationships with equipment suppliers and engineers
- Train new machine operators and provide operational cover where required
- Keep work areas safe, tidy and hazard-free in line with health and safety procedures
Experience Required
- Good attention to detail and a practical, methodical approach to prioritising work
- Strong organisation skills and the ability to multitask under pressure
- High standards of professionalism, work ethic and housekeeping
- Flexible approach to daily tasks, training and hands-on support when required
- Positive communication skills and the ability to work with internal teams and external equipment suppliers
- SMT screen printing, pick and place, conveyors and transfers, reflow soldering and AOI
- Selective soldering, process flow, fluxes, solder paste, solder bar and other process materials
- Oven profiling, work instructions, procedures and engineering documentation
- Soldering experience and the ability to train new operators when required
- Collecting, manipulating and presenting process data using spreadsheets to support analysis and conclusions
Benefits
- 25 days annual leave, increasing with length of service up to 30 days, plus bank holidays
- Private medical insurance
- 6% employer pension contribution
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Discretionary company performance bonus
- Long service employee recognition scheme
- Enhanced family leave
- Company events
- Subsidised amenities including tea, coffee, hot chocolate and milk
Interview Process Two-stage face-to-face onsite process. Stage one is likely to include a site walk-around, review of the SMT lines and a technical interview. Stage two will be a more in-depth conversation around previous experience, with competency-based questions.
Salary range
- £37,000






