Instrumentation Test technician

Expert Employment; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Expert Employment in Gloucester is seeking an Electronic Instrument Test technician with strong precision engineering and data acquisition, test validation and verification experience to join a comprehensive in-house test facility.

You will work with component and product instrumentation, handling data acquisition systems (NI DAQ), LabVIEW, and DASYLab, plus practical testing using sensors, accelerometers, flow meters, and thermocouples.

Qualifications

• Experience with data acquisition systems for experiments and data analysis.
• Background in precision engineering environment with practical testing.
• Proficient with NI LabVIEW, NI DAQ and DASYLab software/tools.
• Skills in wiring, soldering and instrumentation use.
• Ability to set up data acquisition software and interpret results.

Responsibilities

• Build and administer data acquisition systems for experiments in-house.
• Set up, configure and validate data acquisition software (LabVIEW/DASYLab).
• Operate instrumentation such as pressure sensors, accelerometers, flow meters, and thermocouples.
• Cable layout, installation routing, and PCB-level soldering as needed.
• Use DMM and oscilloscope for verification; perform environmental testing.

Skills

Data acquisition

LabVIEW

DASYLab

Soldering

Oscilloscope

DMM

Sensor instrumentation

Cable routing

3-phase motors

Inverters

Tools

NI DAQ

LabVIEW

DASYLab

Soldering at PCB level

Job description

Electronic Instrument Test technician with good all round precision engineering electronic data acquisition, test validation and verification experience required to join a comprehensive in house test facility.

Component and product, instrumentation, electronic / electrical testing experience ideally in a very practical precision design environment.

Key skills

• Data acquisition system build and administration to experiment, collect data and calculate results.
• Set up, configure data acquisitions system software, example NI DAQ, NI LabVIEW, DASYLab.
• Instrumentation use including: Pressure sensors, Accelerometers, Flow meters, Loadcells, Thermocouples.
• Cable layout and installation route cabling.
• Soldering skills at connector and PCB level.
• Digital multi meter (DMM) and oscilloscope knowledge.
• Environmental testing.
• Inverters, 3 phase motors and programmable Logic controller knowledge.