Mechanical Assembly Technician | Abingdon | £35,000pa - £45,000pa plus overtime & benefits:   A leading specialist manufacturer of superconducting scientific instrumentation is looking to hire an experienced Mechanical Assembly Technician to join their small specialist team. This Mechanical Assembly Technician role would suit someone who has exceptional mechanical based skills and experience, being able to read engineering drawings, using your ranging mechanical skill set, you will weld, fabricate and solder parts to build their highly complex instrumentation.   Typical duties for the Mechanical Assembly Technician: Welding, hard and soft soldering of parts. Assembly of products in line with engineering drawings. Leak testing of systems with helium. Occasional use of manual lathe and mill. Identifying tooling and equipment requirements to improve efficiency within assembly Our client is looking for a Mechanical Assembly Technician who ideally has completed a mechanical apprenticeship or holds a mechanical qualification. You will have worked within a mechanical assembly environment, ideally instrumentation and possess some of the following skills: Mechanical fitting and assembly. Cryogen handling. Vacuum and leak testing. Soldering (hard and soft). Welding. Machining. Wiring. This is a standard day shift role, working 8am-4:30pm Mon-Thurs and 8am-1pm on Friday.   If you're a Mechanical Assembly Technician with good all round mechanical based skills, and you're looking for a role with in a relaxed and professional work environment, then please send MARS Recruitment a copy of your CV.   MARS Recruitment is an equal opportunities employer and positively welcomes applications from suitably qualified applicants regardless of race, colour, sex, marital status, national origin, religion, age, disability, or any other protected status. Suitable candidates for the role will be contacted within 3 working days, unfortunately if you haven't heard back in this time your application has been unsuccessful at this time.     MARS Recruitment is a specialist Engineering & IT recruiter working in partnership with companies across the UK and offers services of both an Employment Business (for Temporary/Contract roles) and an Employment Agency (for Permanent roles)