Job Title – Applications Engineer

Job Location – Farnborough

Job ID – 16779

About this opportunity and L3Harris UK

From 12 UK sites, our team of over 1,400 people deliver unique capabilities across air, land, sea, space and cyber for military, security and commercial customers, worldwide.

L3Harris in Farnborough specialist in secure ground and airborne communication and network systems for the US military, international forces and commercial customers.

A few of our employee benefits are:

• 25 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays), increasing with long service and with the opportunity to buy/sell up to 5 days
• Private medical insurance with optional family cover
• Pension scheme of up to 7% employer contribution
• Life Assurance 4x salary (flexible up to 10x)
• Group income protection
• Flexible opt-in extras such as a health care cash plan, dental insurance, gym membership, critical illness cover and cycle to work scheme
• Employee assistance program providing mental health and wellbeing support

What the role will involve

The responsibilities of your role will include the following:

• The identification, preparation & execution of both local & field-based demo requests in line with export control licensing.
• Operate, manage, and develop the Demo Pool order tracking, and equipment database, both h/w & s/w.
• Perform & maintain complete inventory of Demo Pool assets and provide regular equipment status report.
• Maintenance and upkeep of the technical reference software and documentation library.
• Back loading & Processing of faulty equipment and testing of returned demo pool equipment to agreed service levels.
• Provide training support to customers, at suitable locations throughout the operational sphere of L3Harris interests.
• Also willing to travel to support National & International customers both in the field and at base locations.
• Repair, maintenance, calibration of all CSUK based demo pool hardware in conjunction with US demo pool.

What you’ll bring

The role of Applications Engineer requires the following experience and skills:

• Previous experience working with military and tactical radio communications systems.
• Knowledge of tactical radio systems to include the Operation, Maintenance & execution of static and field-based demonstrations.
• A working Knowledge of networking, telephony applications, radio techniques, Antenna’s & propagation
• Provision of in country & remote technical advice and support to customers as well as via telephone, e-mail or written media.

Important to know

Due to the nature of our work many our roles require a UK nationality and the ability to obtain a security clearance. Applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment must meet the requirement of right to work in the UK and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information and will be subject to government security checks.

As an equal opportunities employer, L3Harris is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join L3Harris.