Development and Production Test Engineer - Electronic/Electr

Job Title: Development and Production Test Engineer – Electronic/Electrical

Duration: 12-month contract (Inside IR35)

Location: Stevenage

Rate: £36.00 PH Umbrella or £26.98 PH PAYE

Overview

You will provide 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.

TASKS / RESPONSIBITIES

• 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.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS / PROVEN ABILITY

• HNC/HND (Electronics) plus good level of proven ability in digital & analogue electronics manufacture and test.
• Must have proven ability with measurement and test principles, and associated test equipment.
• Electronic Component level fault finding
• A good understanding of measurement and test principles, and associated test equipment.

DESIRABLES

• An understanding of the typical CADMID product lifecycle for test equipment is desirable.
• An understanding of RF and microwave technology at subsystem level would be an advantage.
• An understanding of Environmental testing (including ESS) would also be an advantage.
• Good verbal and written communication skills, including generation of test specifications, operator instructions and technical reports based on higher-level requirements.

ADDITIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION: WE SEEK A PRODUCTON TEST & DEVELOPEMT ENGINEER WHO HAS WORKED IN A MILITARY / DEFENCE ENVIRONMENT / INDUSTRY WITHIN THE LAST 12 MONTHS OR WHO IS CAPABLE OF OBTAINING SECURITY CLEARANCE (SC LEVEL MINIMUM)