Manufacturing Test Engineer

Electus Recruitment; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defence recruitment firm is seeking a Principal Manufacturing Test Engineer in Stevenage. You will provide comprehensive test engineering support throughout the product lifecycle, focusing on electrical/electronic systems in a regulated manufacturing environment. Candidates should hold at least an HNC qualification and possess significant experience with both manual and automated test equipment. A permanent position offering just salary and benefits, including bonuses and annual reviews, awaits the right candidate. Only sole British Citizens may apply due to security clearance requirements.

Benefits

Bonuses

Annual salary reviews

Paid overtime

Qualifications

• Minimum HNC level of qualification or equivalent in a relevant subject.
• Significant experience in digital, analogue and RF electronics manufacture and test.
• Understanding of electrical/electronic test principles and test equipment.

Responsibilities

• Provide test engineering support across the lifecycle from design to production.
• Ensure configuration control of equipment and facilities are in place.
• Support testing of electrical/electronic weapon systems and diagnose test failures.

Skills

Test engineering support

Electrical/electronic testing

Communication skills

Education

HNC level qualification or equivalent

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:

• 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 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.