Non-destructive Testing (NDT) Technician – Marine Composite Structures
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Location | Spain |
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Job Type | Permanent |
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Salary | £45,000 - £60,000 |
As an NDT Technician, your mission is to ensure the structural integrity and quality of the company’s world-class composite spars and rigging systems. Through expert ultrasonic inspection, accurate reporting, and international field support, you will help safeguard the performance, reliability, and safety of high-performance racing and superyacht programmes worldwide.
Responsibilities
- Conduct contact ultrasonic testing of CFRP laminates, bonded joints, and structural assemblies to approved NDT procedures.
- Set up and verify UT equipment (including phased array systems such as OmniScan SX) in accordance with calibration and pre-inspection requirements.
- Identify, size, and classify indications including delaminations, voids, wrinkles, and disbonds in composite structures.
- Prepare clear, accurate inspection reports documenting findings, indication locations, sizing data, and relevant inspection parameters.
- Maintain contemporaneous OJT records and inspection documentation to programme and certification body requirements.
- Support procedure development and participate in technique trials under Level III direction.
- Travel internationally to customer sites, refit yards, and race events as required,
- Operate and maintain NDT equipment in field conditions, ensuring calibration status is maintained at all times.
- Work within the company quality management system and contribute to programme audits and reviews.
Requirements
• External NDT Level 2 certification in Ultrasonic Testing – ISO 9712 / PCN, NAS 410, or equivalent externally certified scheme.
• Demonstrated experience in UT of CFRP or composite structures – marine, aerospace, or wind energy sectors preferred.
• Competence in contact UT pulse-echo techniques; familiarity with phased array UT advantageous.
• Ability to set up equipment, select appropriate probes and frequencies, and calibrate to reference standards without supervision.
• Experience producing formal inspection reports to a recognised standard.
• Full, clean driving license and valid passport – willingness and ability to travel internationally at short notice.
• Based in Europe; willingness to relocate to Spain.
• English language proficiency – written and spoken to a professional standard.
Benefits
• Flexible working hours.
• Mapfre private health insurance.
• An extra day off for your birthday.
• Referral bonus policy.