Senior Test Engineer

L3Harris Technologies, Inc.; Brighton; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Half day Friday

25 days holidays

Private medical insurance

Pension up to 8%

Life Assurance 4x salary

Group income protection

Flexible opt-in extras

Employee family assistance

Job summary

L3Harris Technologies, Inc. in the UK seeks a Senior Test Engineer to join its Brighton team. You will create test plans, develop procedures and reports to support airworthiness certification, and work across the development life cycle with internal and customer reviews.

Responsibilities include test program development for hardware and software systems, analysis of results, and ongoing facility and process improvements to ensure quality and reliability across the release systems portfolio.

Qualifications

• Hons degree in mechanical engineering and 5+ years' industry experience.
• Strong analytical and communication skills with attention to detail.
• Experience in test planning, execution and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Create Type Approval Test Plans for certification requirements.
• Develop detailed Qualification Test procedures and reports.
• Conduct tests and support Airworthiness Certification processes.
• Support design reviews throughout the development life cycle.
• Analyse test results and feed insights back into design.
• Develop hardware/software test programs and improve facilities.

Skills

Test system design

Test fixture design

Electro-mechanical testing

LabVIEW & DAQ

Sensors & instrumentation

Environmental testing

Analysis of test results

Documentation & reports

Education

Hons degree in mech Eng.

Tools

SolidWorks

Job description

Senior Test Engineer - Brighton, UK - Job ID 40530

About this opportunity and L3Harris UK

Operating at 11 sites in the United Kingdom, L3Harris supports Britain's mission to secure and strengthen the country by delivering sovereign innovation across the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains. L3Harris in Brighton are part of our Release Systems & Antennas division operating in the Aerospace domain. For over 70 years, L3Harris has designed and developed industry-leading carriage and release systems for fighter, rotary-wing and unmanned platforms and we design, manufacture and test a large portion of our release systems portfolio in our Brighton facility which offers 48,500 square feet of manufacturing space. Our mission-critical release systems equipment is on most major airborne fighter platforms worldwide, including the F-35, along with other aircraft like the Gripen and Typhoon.

A few of our employee benefits are:

• Half day finish on a Friday
• 25 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays), increasing with long service and with the opportunity to buy/sell up to 5 days
• Private medical insurance with optional family cover
• Pension scheme of up to 8% employer contribution
• Life Assurance 4x salary (flexible up to 10x)
• Group income protection
• Flexible opt-in extras such as a health care cash plan, dental insurance, gym membership, critical illness cover, cycle to work scheme, travel insurance and electric car scheme
• Employee Family Assistance Program providing mental health and wellbeing support
• Professional membership reimbursement (discretionary)

What the role will involve

The responsibilities of your role will include the following:

• 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 integration.
• Investigate 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.

What you'll bring

The role requires the following experience and skills:

• Test system design and implementation
• Test fixture design
• Electro-mechanical test
• High pressure pneumatics (400 bar) derived from bottled inert gas, compressors and boost pumps
• LabVIEW software and data acquisition (DAQ) equipment
• Sensors – accelerometers, load cells, pressure transducers, LVDT
• High Speed Cameras
• Hoists & lifting equipment (2000kg)
• Environmental testing: Temperature, Humidity, Vibration
• Diagnosis of faults/issues
• Feedback of test results into design process
• Standard laboratory test equipment (multimeters, verniers)

Desirable

• Automated test cell design/creation
• Hydraulic and electrical actuators
• Electrical/electronic design
• Vibration Rigs (LDS V8900)
• Diadem – data analysis
• Environmental testing: Sand/Dust, Salt Fog, EMC/EMI, ESS
• CAD (Solidworks)
• Reliability & FMECA
• MIL-STD 810 & DEF STAN 00-35

Education / Training / Qualifications

• Hons degree in mech Eng. And 5+ years' experience in related industry

Competencies

• Analytical, methodical, organised
• Communication and credibility
• Attention to detail
• IT proficient
• Team Player
• Calm under pressure

Important to know

Due to the nature of our work many of our roles require a UK nationality and the ability to obtain a security clearance. Applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment must meet the requirement of right to work in the UK and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information and will be subject to government security checks.

L3Harris Technologies is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to maintaining a workplace that is free from unlawful discrimination and offers equal opportunities for all. Applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, and marriage and civil partnerships.

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