Electrical Systems Engineer - Aerospace

Carbon 60; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

Carbon60 are currently working in partnership with one of the UK's most well known and prestigious aerospace manufacturing businesses based in Stevenage to recruit an experienced AIT Electrical Systems Engineer on an initial 12 month contract.

The role is being hired to focus on the preparation of test procedures, wiring and debugging test sequences for use in system testing during environmental tests. This will be alongside providing full support to the test operations team working on non-conformance reviews from a technical perspective.

Role Responsibilities:

1. Interpretation of electrical and functional test requirements from test specifications.
2. Provide test solutions to meet the test specification requirements, from planning and kick-off meeting, through test sequence coding, procedure preparation and debug to execution.
3. Provide first-line support to the test operations team executing tests on the flight spacecraft in the event of anomalies.
4. Close out tests with Post Test Review and Test Report.
5. To provide technical inputs to project test reviews (Test Readiness Reviews, Post Test Reviews, Test Review Boards and Non-Conformance Review Boards).
6. Development and debug of Automatic Test procedures (ATP) using a bespoke high-level S/W language (Open Centre checkout system based on the Elisa language and Open Centre Bridge based on JAVA) to test the spacecraft systems.
7. Preparing and executing spacecraft system investigations in line with actions from Non-Conformance Review Boards (NRBs).
8. Support Spacecraft systems functional and performance tests during environmental test (TVAC, Magnetic, EMC), functional and performance tests.

Experience Required:

1. Current hands-on experience of writing test sequences/scripts for execution of spacecraft tests from the Central Checkout System (CCS). Knowledge of Elisa and JAVA would be an advantage.
2. Working knowledge of TMTC Databases.
3. Spacecraft systems and subsystem technical knowledge and awareness is essential, e.g. Data Handling, Packet Utilisation Standard, Data Bus Communications - 1553, Spacewire, Attitude & Orbital Control, Star Trackers, Gyros, Momentum Wheels, power systems, batteries, Solar Arrays, Thermal Control, heaters, thermostats, FDIR, Spacecraft Configuration Vectors etc.
4. Programming and scripting languages, particularly writing and debugging Linux/Unix bash scripts is an advantage. Knowledge of a programming language such as C, Java, Python, TCL, VBA would be useful but not essential.
5. Competent in the use of various test equipment used for electrical measurements, e.g. DMM, oscilloscope, current probes, Data acquisition unit, data bus monitors (1553 MilBus and SpaceWire probes/analysers) would be an advantage.
6. Spacecraft electrical and harness knowledge would be an advantage but not essential.

Interviews for this role will be held shortly with immediate starts available.
For more information on this role please contact Craig at Carbon60 Fareham on (phone number removed).