Wire Harness Team Leader

  • Job Location : Corby, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom
  • Job Type : Full Time

About Us

Intelliconnect is a leading manufacturer of coaxial RF connectors, adaptors, and cable assemblies, supplying products to market sectors such as Aerospace & Defence, Medical and Industrial.

Our CryoCoax brand is synonymous with high quality RF products for Cryogenics and Quantum Computing.

Culturally, Intelliconnect has people at its core. Without our amazing teams, we would be nothing. We succeed if you do and as such, we are committed to helping you develop and grow within the business.

We are expanding our product offering into Wire Harnesses and require a Wire Harness Team Leader to work alongside our Production Manager at our Corby facility to set up this exciting new division.  We already have demand from our customers for this service, and rather than use our current RF skilled labour, we want to do this properly and build a new team to deliver this.

Responsibilities

  • Production
  • Ability to read complex wire schematics
  • Manufacture of complex loom and Harness with multiple breakouts
  • Manufacture/soldering of fine wires up to 30AWG
  • Use of hand tools and turrets
  • Tool selection
  • Crimp and Solder contacts
  • Termination of circular and rectangular connectors e.g. D38999/Micro D
  • Wire joining using methods such as lap joints and splices
  • Building test jigs and harnesses
  • Timing and costings of jobs

Recruitment

  • Build a team from the ground up
  • Work with HR to create Job Descriptions
  • Interviewing Candidates

Team Management

  • Day to day supervision of Harness team
  • Appraisals/Quarterly reviews
  • Skills matrix management
  • Working with Planner and Production manager to allocate jobs

About You

The successful candidate will have a wire harness background and be passionate about their work, have good interpersonal skills and be able to communicate well with their team and fellow co-workers. Be creative, enquiring and be capable of problem solving. 

Familiarity of Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel, Word and PowerPoint.

Wire harness experience, ideally working on defence or aerospace projects.

Understanding of IPC620, ideally currently certified.

Renumeration

As a rapidly growing business with an ambitious plan for future growth and investment, we offer excellent development opportunities and competitive remuneration based on experience and capability.

Relocation assistance may be available for the right candidate and the region offers good value for money properties.  Corby is growing rapidly and the town centre has been regenerated, giving access to most major shopping and restaurant chains plus there are many lovely surrounding villages with the desirable market town of Stamford less than 30 minutes away.

We offer Health Shield, an employee cash back insurance plan, a cycle to work scheme, salary sacrifice contributory pension scheme, and 25 days paid annual leave, plus bank holidays.

The role is on-site in Corby, Northamptonshire.

Normal hours of work are Monday-Thursday 8:00am to 5:00pm (30 minutes for lunch, 2 x 15 minute breaks) and Friday 8:00am to 1:00pm (1 x 15 minute break).