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A leading engineering company seeks a Senior Test & Development Engineer to design and support test equipment for complex systems. Key responsibilities include documentation, quality assurance, and collaboration with hardware and software teams. The role supports the Defence industry and requires the ability to obtain security clearance. This is a 12-month contract based onsite in Harlow.

Qualifications

  • Must be able to obtain Security Clearance.
  • Proven experience on managing designs into production.
  • Experience in Defence/Aerospace environment is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Responsible for design of functional test equipment for circuits and systems.
  • Quality assurance of test equipment and mentoring junior engineers.
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams for system design.

Skills

Analogue circuit design
Digital circuit design
Documentation skills
Test equipment design
Collaboration

Tools

Mentor Graphics
LabView
C#

Job description

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The Senior Test & Development Engineer will be responsible for the design, manufacture, verification and validation, along with through life technical support of board level, sub-system and system level test equipment.

Important

All applicants must be able to obtain Security Clearance.

Location: Harlow (fully onsite)

Duration: 12 month contract

We have multiple opportunities available with this team and are on the lookout for both perm and contract members of the team!

Responsibilities:

  • Design of functional test equipment for circuit cards, sub-assemblies and systems.
  • To take responsibility for the design and overall quality of the test equipment and provide leadership and guidance for junior engineers.
  • Documentation of design specifications and implementation details. Take part in design reviews. Upholding of design standards and methodologies.
  • Realisation of complex system requirements to provide robust and reliable test hardware solutions.
  • Responsibility for the complete implementation of detailed technical items and an understanding/appreciation of system level items.
  • Collaboration with other team members (including both hardware and software engineers) to agree system designs, interfaces and protocols etc.
  • Development of appropriate test hardware, test software and procedures, both informal and formal, to prove the correct operation of hardware.
  • Provide support to manufacturing answering product queries & resolving technical issues.
  • Provide support for the test hardware and manage obsolescence throughout its lifecycle.
  • Monitoring and reporting of progress of test development to immediate supervisor and development team.
  • Proactively support company compliance to Health and Safety legislation through adherence to company polices, processes and practices.
  • Ensure that all business activity is conducted in line with company values, policies and ethics codes of conduct.
  • Undertake any other activity as reasonably requested by management
  • Application of Design Review Processes
  • Accountable for engineering specific risks and opportunities.
  • Provides guidance of Test Development processes and tools.
  • Contribute to section/business area resource planning with a working understanding of Microsoft Project tools.
  • Test Engineering Lead for a small/medium scale test engineering program
  • Ability to identify and engage the appropriate SME's to support the Test Development Engineering activities.
  • Contributor/Approver for standard/tailored test development process including Design Review gates and content
  • Key interface to external customers/suppliers.
  • Excellent knowledge of analogue and digital electronic circuit design.
  • Ability to write comprehensive technical design documentation.
  • Proven experience in handover and management of designs in production.
  • Able to support/debug system integration

Desired Skills:

  • Experience in the Defence / Aerospace or safety regulated environment would be advantageous.
  • Use of Mentor Graphics schematic entry and PCB layout tools.
  • Understanding of common test architectures PXI/d LXI
  • Measurement Uncertainty and its application in test equipment design and validation
  • Software Certification or detailed knowledge of: NI LabView, NI CVI, NI TestStand, C#
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