Evening Lab Test Engineer: Fire & Life Safety

Kidde Global Solutions; Bradenton (FL); On-site; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Kidde Global Solutions seeks a Second Shift Lab Test Engineer to ensure quality and compliance of smoke and carbon monoxide detection products. You’ll review schematics, develop testing procedures, and execute validation and regression tests, analyzing failures for leadership review. Travel 5-10% may be required.

Onsite role near Bradenton, FL, involving collaboration with engineering and production teams to uphold industry standards and drive safety-focused outcomes.

Qualifications

• 3+ years’ experience as a lab/test engineer with consumer electronics.
• Experience using digital and analog testing equipment (multimeters, oscilloscopes).
• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Create complex test strategies for product validation to ensure compliance with life safety standards.
• Review, test, and validate agency and engineering design requirements for each product.
• Document requirements and develop test cases for global lab teams to track progress.
• Plan work breakdowns for engineering technicians to accelerate testing schedules.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams for root-cause analyses of failures.
• Read/interpret electrical and mechanical schematics to understand test needs.
• Provide technical support to key customers as needed.

Skills

Lab testing experience

Digital/analog test equipment

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Jira

MATLAB

Minitab

Job description

Kidde Global Solutions seeks a Second Shift Lab Test Engineer to ensure quality and compliance of smoke and carbon monoxide detection products. You’ll review schematics, develop testing procedures, and execute validation and regression tests, analyzing failures for leadership review. Travel 5-10% may be required.

Onsite role near Bradenton, FL, involving collaboration with engineering and production teams to uphold industry standards and drive safety-focused outcomes.