Manufacturing Test Engineer

Electus Recruitment Solutions; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense recruitment agency is seeking a Principal Manufacturing Test Engineer in Stevenage. The role involves providing test engineering support for military weapon systems, overseeing the testing process, and working with multidisciplinary teams. Candidates must possess a minimum HNC qualification in a relevant field, along with significant experience in electronics test environments. A strong understanding of electrical testing principles is essential. This permanent position offers a salary of circa £50,000, bonuses, and overtime opportunities.

Benefits

Bonuses

Annual salary reviews

Paid overtime

Qualifications

• Minimum qualifications include HNC or equivalent in a relevant field.
• Experience in digital, analogue, and RF electronics test in a defense environment.
• Ability to work through product development lifecycle in electronics manufacturing.

Responsibilities

• Provide test engineering support across design to production lifecycle.
• Ensure proper configuration control of equipment.
• Support testing of electrical and electronic weapon systems.

Skills

Digital electronics

Analogue electronics

RF electronics

Test engineering

Communication skills

Education

HNC or equivalent in relevant subject

Tools

Manual test equipment

Automated test equipment

Job description

Principal Manufacturing Test Engineer

Salary: Circa £50,000 plus paid overtime.

Location: Stevenage – 4/5 days a week on site.

Shape how this established defence company that produces military weapons systems undertakes production testing. You will be rewarded with bonuses, annual salary reviews, paid overtime and so forth.

About the role

As a Principal Manufacturing Test Engineer, you will support test system introduction and test and diagnostics of electrical/electronic weapon systems and sub-assemblies.

Responsibilities

• Provide test engineering support across the whole lifecycle from design to production through to operations.
• Ensure that appropriate configuration control of equipment and facilities are in place prior to use, including generating supporting test specifications and operator instructions.
• Support testing of electrical/electronic weapon systems, sub-assemblies and circuit cards, with diagnosis of development test failures down to circuit card and potentially component level, including identification of proposed remedial and corrective actions.
• Work closely with multidisciplinary teams, including mentoring junior test engineers.

Key Requirements

• Minimum HNC level of qualification or equivalent in a relevant subject.
• Significant experience in digital, analogue and RF electronics manufacture and test in a defence organisation or similar highly regulated manufacturing environment.
• Understanding of electrical/electronic test principles and test equipment, as well as systems-level functional testing.
• Experience across the product development lifecycle in electronics manufacturing.
• Significant experience of using both manual and automated test equipment.
• Good verbal and written communication skills, including generating technical requirements.
• Due to the nature of work undertaken at our client's site, incumbents of these positions are required to meet special nationality rules and therefore these vacancies are only open to sole British citizens. Applicants who meet this criterion will also be required to undergo security clearance vetting, if not already security cleared to a minimum SC level.

This is a permanent position.