Operational Engineering, Senior Technician

Dyson Institute; Johor Bahru; Hybrid; MYR 60,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Dyson Institute is seeking a Senior Test Technician to lead verification and testing activities for new Dyson products. You will manage test projects in the lab, design and execute tests, review results and report risks to stakeholders.

You will lead a team of Test Technicians and Test Operators, ensuring quality outputs and alignment with safety standards while collaborating with design, engineering and external partners to mitigate risks and improve lab performance.

Qualifications

• Diploma or Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Electronic Engineering, or related field which is equivalent experience with broad technical engineering skills.
• Experienced in industry that related to Operations of Verification and Testing development at the appropriate level.
• Skilled in project management, verification and testing environment, planning and conducting testing, test method development and you had exposure to test rigs and automation.
• Knowledge in FMEA (Failure Mode and Effect Analysis) and statistical analysis.
• Exposure to prototype solutions and benchmark testing methodologies.
• Familiar with international test method standards (IEC, EN, ASTM, etc.).
• Possess people leadership and strong communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Involve and manage new Dyson products development projects in terms of performance and robustness verification testing in the test labs.
• Collaborate with Test Engineers and technicians to identify, prioritise and plan testing to support test demands.
• Collaborate with external partners to understand risks and define testing approaches.
• Review test requests and align with requirements for product development; report readiness and risks.
• Deliver operational tasks within a lab and lead a team of Test Technicians and Test Operators.
• Ensure quality output of test results, failure reports and advisory to stakeholders.
• Be involved in failure analysis of the Unit Under Test.
• Report results and progress to stakeholders including design engineers.
• Support verification strategy with Test Management and Engineering to improve product designs.
• Assist continuous improvement to optimize lab operation time, cost and quality.
• Specify test equipment to assess risks and set up data acquisition.
• Set up tests individually or with a team and monitor progress.
• Review product features and advise on test setup against designs.
• Carry out related tasks as needed.

Skills

Project management

Verification & testing

Testing planning

Test methods development

FMEA

Statistical analysis

Communication skills

Leadership

Education

Engineering degree or diploma (Mechanical / Electrical / Electronic)

Tools

Test rigs

Automation tools

Job description

About the Role

Dyson is forever innovating and looking to develop new and exciting products. As part of Dyson Test Team (RDD Prototyping, Verification & Test), Test Operations play an integral part in determining how, when and where we validate these new technologies and products to ensure these designs are robust to real world conditions. Senior Test Technician supports for the delivery of the execution of small to medium complex projects especially in managing, designing, executing and reporting on the critical testing required to prove out emerging Dyson technologies by using prescribed guidelines and procedures with a good knowledge of own discipline.

Main Duties/Responsibilities

Involve and manage new Dyson products development projects in terms of performance and robustness verification testing in the test labs, with good knowledge of related verification testing.

Collaborate within Test Engineers and technicians to identify, prioritise and plan for testing to support test demands to be executed on time as project time plan.

Collaborate within external partners; Design Team, Engineering Team and Technology Team to understand the risks associated with new technologies and help define the best way of assessing those risks.

Review each of test request, align with testing requirements for product development and report out testing readiness and the risks associated with the testing plan in term of test capacity and capability.

Deliver specific operational task within a lab with minimum guidance and leading a team of Test Technicians and Test Operators.

Ensure quality output of test results, failure report and provide necessary advice to the relevant stakeholders.

Be fully involved in the failure analysis of related UUT (Unit Under Test).

Report relevant results, progress and analysis to a wide range of stakeholders – including design engineers and deliver any operational activity to relevant safety standards.

Liaise with Test Management and Engineering Team to identify and execute the verification strategy for testing; to assess and improve Dyson product designs and technologies to be able to be at the top in the market.

Support continuous improvement activity to optimize lab operation in term time, cost and quality within the lab.

Specify test equipment to enable any risks to be assessed – including suitable and often bespoke data acquisition setups.

Setup required test either individually or as a part of a team of other engineers or technicians and monitor the progress.

Review Dyson products features/technologies and provide advice on the test setup based on the specific products designs including external suppliers.

Carry out other related tasks in addition to the above main tasks.

Person Specification

Diploma or Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Electronic Engineering, or related field which is equivalent experience with broad technical engineering skills.

Experienced in industry that related to Operations of Verification and Testing development at the appropriate level.

Skilled in project management, verification and testing environment, planning and conducting testing, test method development and you had exposure to test rigs and automation.

Knowledge in FMEA (Failure Mode and Effect Analysis) and statistical analysis.

Experienced in working with prototyping solutions and benchmark testing methodologies and exposure to test automation.

Essential: Familiar with international test method standards (IEC, EN, ASTM, etc.) and internally developed test method focusing on robustness and performance testing for the product.

Possess people leadership, excellent organisational and team-working skills; capable to plan efficiently, to prioritise tasks and to co-ordinate in keeping all relevant stakeholders in the loop on the status of projects and workloads.

Exceptional, capable and confident in communication and presentation skills; able to translate and communicate complex technical information to relevant stakeholders either within internal or external teams.

Comfortable with a high degree of ambiguity and enjoy greatly the idea of solving problems that have not been solved at scale before.

Proactive and have high level sense of urgency, responsibility and commitment.

Desirable

Excellent personality and open to positive criticism. Self-starter with full of initiative to make the difference. Perseverance – consistently putting effort to maintain and further improve current system or process. Able to maintain effective working relationships with those contacted during work. Capable of working under pressure, commit to tight deadlines and able to think and react promptly.

Dyson is an equal opportunity employer. We know that great minds don’t think alike, and it takes all kinds of minds to make our technology so unique. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other any other dimension of diversity.

At Dyson we are focused on solving the problems that others have ignored; solving them first using our technology and ingenuity. In order to achieve this we need to pioneer technologies that are different and authentic. This is the core of what we do and who we are. We must strive to create the future, every single day by developing new things, different things, things that go against the grain with a diverse and global team of ingenious minds. Dyson employs 14,000 people and is present in more than 80 countries. And while we are growing fast we want Dyson to remain a start-up in spirit with the freedom of experimentation and learning, constantly reinventing our products as well as reinventing how we work, how we sell and how we support our owners. At the same time we are working through the James Dyson Foundation, James Dyson Award and Dyson Institute to inspire future engineers and pioneering a new approach to engineering education. Underlining everything we do in this diverse environment is the need to always show respect, supporting each other as one team to overcome whatever challenges we encounter. We drive empowerment, development and equality in an inclusive environment for our people around the world. The future doesn’t just happen, we look to make it happen, to achieve leaps through pioneering new ideas.