Electronic Test Engineer

12 Month Contract – Inside IR35 – Onsite in Stevenage

Up to £36 per hour umbrella

Job Role:

• Technical support to the manufacturing test of weapons sub-systems in production and development test and diagnostics of complex weapons at system and subsystem level.
• Provide Test Engineering support during Design / Development phases from initial concept through to Production Readiness Review and release to Operations.
• Support Test Facility introduction and ensure that configuration control of equipment and facilities is in place prior to use, including generating supporting test specifications and operator instructions.
• Support to testing of electrical / electronic weapon systems and sub-assemblies, with diagnosis of production test failures down to circuit card and potentially component level.
• Identification of remedial and corrective actions, in a timely manner allowing manufacturing to continue production in line with programme.
• Evaluation of technical problems in order to develop proposals for test equipment investigations and corrective actions, including process improvements.
• Test Engineering representative at Defect Review Board meetings to ensure efficient progress of equipment and quality notifications towards corrective action.

Key Skills and Experience:

• Must have significant experience with measurement and test principles, and associated test equipment.
• Electronic Component level fault finding
• CADMID product lifecycle for test equipment is desirable.
• RF and microwave technology at subsystem level would be an advantage.
• Environmental testing would also be an advantage.
• High Voltage training/awareness.
• SAP Beneficial
• MS Office skills
• Good verbal and written communication skills, including generation of test specifications, operator instructions and technical reports based on higher-level requirements.
• Manual handling training.
• ESD training.

Qualifications:

• HNC/HND (Electronics) Level of Qualifications or equivalent, plus good level of experience in digital & analogue electronics manufacture and test.