Lab Technician 2025

Location: Cardiff
Type: Graduate

Description:

GE Aerospace Wales, located just outside of Cardiff, is a premier facility specialising in the testing, maintenance, repair, and overhaul of commercial jet engines, including the powerful GE90-115B, GE9X, and the CFM56. Our facility has been in operation for over 75 years and is one of the largest engine maintenance facilities globally, serving over 90 customers. Our people make it all happen, and we’re dedicated to nurturing future talent through robust apprenticeship, internship, and work experience programs, ensuring long-term success and innovation.

Key responsibilities

• Conducting routine chemical analysis & physical analysis of chemical tanks and water supplies across site in line with OEM & ASTM standards.
• Assess results for applicability, validity and conformance to specifications and statistical trends.
• Ability to use various analytical equipment and display knowledge of traditional wet chemistry test methods.
• Responsible for maintenance and routine calibration of laboratory equipment.
• Qualitative and Quantitative analysis of fuels and oils across site in accordance to OEM and ASTM standards.
• Design, plan and conduct key laboratory testing work to support internal and external GE departments, to assist with repair development work.
• Ability to plan and write technique sheets in accordance with all engine types.
• Complex knowledge and understanding of chemicals and associated hazards when producing site wide etching solutions.
• Undertaking airworthiness cleanliness checks of engine parts by microscope analysis.
• Ability to show confidence and competency, as well as time management when asked to carry out ad hoc tasks.
• Aptitude and understanding of material science to analyse metallic coated products.
• Competency in methods of sample preparation and confidence in determining evaluation criteria. When determining the integrity of a thermal spray coating, using microscopic comparison of test piece with photomicrograph standards.
• Perform tensile bond tests to test adherence of the thermal spray coating in accordance to specifications of individual coatings.
• Perform hardness tests to test hardness of the thermal spray coating using Rockwell and Vickers methods in accordance to manual specifications of individual coatings.
• Responsible for ordering and controlling analytical grade chemicals in lab stock. Ordering of new chemicals when required for trials and repair development work.
• Ability to quickly make decisions based on specialized knowledge both as part of a team and on own initiative. Feeling confident providing commitment times for jobs based on knowledge of process times and with foresight of productions requirements, without compromising on quality of testing.

Flexible working

GE supports and encourages flexible working arrangements, where possible, and recognises the benefits to employees of having a positive work-life balance.

Total reward

At GE Aerospace we understand the importance of Total Reward. Our flexible benefits plan, called FlexChoice, gives you freedom, choice and flexibility in the way you receive your benefits, as well as giving you the opportunity to make savings where possible.

As a new joiner to GE we are pleased to be able to offer you the following as default in your benefit fund, which you then can tailor to meet your individual needs;

• Non-contributory Pension
• Performance related bonus
• Life Assurance
• Group income protection
• Private medical cover
• Holiday Hourly equivalent of 26 days + public holidays, with flexible option to buy or sell