Assembly Technician

Ontic, a leading licensor and manufacturer of complex engineering parts for the global aerospace and defence industries, are now recruiting for an Assembly Technician to join our shop floor team where you'll support our team focusing on builds and assembles of aerospace filtration products. This role will be based at our Bolton site 

Ontic is a more than just a business, we're a community of innovators who pride ourselves on fostering a culture where talent thrives, ideas flourish, and careers are built. We're committed to excellence, driving us to continuously improve and adapt, ensuring that we remain at the forefront of our industry.

The Role

As an Assembly Technician, you will be responsible for building and stripping a variety of simple and complex filtration units, utilising your knowledge and skills to assemble filters efficiently and accurately. While not essential, experience gained within the aerospace industry would be advantageous.

You will assemble, test, and inspect a range of mechanical products and final-unit instruments, using diagnostic tests, methodologies, and high-level technical assembly techniques. You will effectively interpret and utilise assembly and engineering drawings and specifications. In addition, you will work within a production environment to undertake and support assembly and testing activities as required to meet business needs.

A key aspect of the role is ensuring compliance with legislation and company policies relating to health and safety, data protection, equal opportunities, and quality assurance. You will ensure that all assembly and testing activities are completed to the required quality standards, meet contractual customer expectations, and conform to specifications to enable progression to final inspection and release. The efficient and correct use of test equipment and diagnostic tools is essential.

About You

At Ontic, our culture is integral to ensuring we enjoy our work and deliver for our customers. While we look for the right skill set, we are also looking for someone who will thrive within our culture of recognition and empowerment.

To be successful in this role, you will be able to demonstrate the safe, responsible, and compliant use of a variety of tools and equipment. You will have a working knowledge of measurement equipment, such as verniers and micrometers. We are always interested in candidates with experience in aerospace or highly regulated background.

You will be able to work effectively both independently, using your own initiative, and as part of a team. You will also be PC literate.

We are looking for candidates who can demonstrate experience of working within a high-performance culture, consistently achieving objectives and targets within tight timescales. You will have good hand-eye coordination and manual dexterity to carry out the assembly of units as required and be able to pass any job-related assessments where applicable.

Benefits

At Ontic we care about your financial, physical, and mental wellness so we offer a range of benefits to support this, we care about what matters to you and have a valued culture of recognition and empowerment, accompanied by benefits that support work/life balance.

Our benefits package highlights include:

• Up to 29 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• 10 hours paid volunteering time
• Annual goal share bonus scheme for all employees
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Discounts and offers from a range of retailers

Best place to work

We are more than the sum of our parts. And we’ve been recognised internally and externally for being so:

• We were ranked #9 in Best Companies’ Q3 leaderboard for Best Manufacturing Company based on our employee feedback
• 72.5% of employees who took part in our 2023 employee satisfaction survey said they are proud to work at Ontic

No day is the same at Ontic; we have doubled in size over the last couple of years and are still in rapid growth. We attribute our success to empowering colleagues to create the opportunity, fostering an environment of autonomy where we ask for forgiveness, not permission.

Our values

Our values are intrinsic to everything we do:

• We share a common sense - we’re a global family of specialists with a shared passion for precision.
• We have the freedom to choose - we’re challengers and innovators with the freedom to think differently and challenge the status quo.
• We create the opportunity - we’re change-makers with a clear direction and can-do spirit.

We are a fast-paced business with ambitious growth plans; so if you are dedicated, enthusiastic and always seeking ways to improve, you'll enjoy a career with us!