Aerospace Test Lead & Senior Engineer

L3Harris Technologies, Inc.; Playden; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Half-day Friday

25 days holiday

Private medical

Pension 8% employer

Life assurance 4x

Group income protection

Flexible benefits

Family wellbeing support

Professional membership reimbursement

Job summary

L3Harris UK in Brighton is seeking a Senior Test Engineer to lead test design and execution for airworthiness related projects. You will create test plans, develop procedures, conduct trials and generate reports to support certification.

The role involves mentoring engineers, contributing to detailed project schedules and improving test facilities and capabilities. The position requires an Honours degree in mechanical engineering with 5+ years of related industry experience, strong LabVIEW/DAQ

Qualifications

• Hons degree in mechanical engineering with 5+ years' related industry experience.
• UK nationality and eligibility for security clearance may be required.

Responsibilities

• Create Type Approval Test Plans to satisfy the certification requirements of Customer Specification and related standards (usually distilled from verification compliance matrix).
• Develop detailed Qualification Test procedures.
• Conduct the required tests and prepare Qualification Test Reports to support Airworthiness Certification (DDP/Certificate of Design).
• Support Internal and Customer Design reviews throughout the Development Life Cycle.
• Provide analysis of the test results.
• Support for trade studies.
• Verification of interface control documents, compatibility of physical and functional interfaces and first article production and implement solutions to products, process or test problems.
• Analysis of requirements for integration and/or testability.
• Develop and implement both hardware and software system level test programmes.
• Designing, developing and implementing cost effective procedures for testing and troubleshooting subassemblies, assemblies and systems.
• Enhancing and developing test facilities and capabilities.

Skills

Test system design

Test fixture design

Electro-mechanical test

LabVIEW & DAQ

Sensors & transducers

Vibration testing

Environmental testing

Fault analysis

Data analysis

Education

BEng (Hons) Mechanical Engineering

Tools

LDS V8900

Diadem

LabVIEW

Job description

L3Harris UK in Brighton is seeking a Senior Test Engineer to lead test design and execution for airworthiness related projects. You will create test plans, develop procedures, conduct trials and generate reports to support certification.

The role involves mentoring engineers, contributing to detailed project schedules and improving test facilities and capabilities. The position requires an Honours degree in mechanical engineering with 5+ years of related industry experience, strong LabVIEW/DAQ