Principal Manufacturing Test Engineer

MBDA S.A.S.; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Flexible working hours

Pension plan (Mercer Master Trust)

Private Medical Insurance

Job summary

MBDA S.A.S. is seeking a Principal Test Engineer to join the Manufacturing team, supporting test and diagnostics of electrical/electronic sub-systems and circuit cards during early product lifecycle stages.

You will provide technical support to the manufacturing test capability, ensuring programme targets are met within time, cost and quality constraints, while collaborating with design and operations teams to implement effective test solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience in test engineering for electrical/electronic subsystems and circuit cards.
• Ability to diagnose production test issues to component level.
• Experience supporting Test Facility introduction and qualification.

Responsibilities

• Provide Test Engineering support during Design/Development to Production Readiness Review and release to Operations.
• Support testing of electrical/electronic sub-assemblies and circuit cards, diagnosing production test failures.
• Collaborate with Operations, design teams and stakeholders to overcome technical challenges.
• Maintain Test Engineering governance and pursue continuous improvement.
• Work with Test Experts to implement test strategies and testability solutions in design.
• Assist in compiling initial process flows for new product and create test documentation for production equipment.
• Support Process FMEA with test mitigations.
• Initialise test fixture designs for new product and estimate test time.
• Assist design engineers with functional and environmental testing of prototypes.

Job description

This opportunity is for a Principal Test Engineer to join the Manufacturing team supporting test and diagnostics of electrical/electronic sub-systems and circuit cards during early phases of the product lifecycle. You will be providing technical support to the manufacturing test capability, to ensure programme targets are met to agreed time, cost and quality requirements.

• Providing Test Engineering support during Design / Development phases from initial concept through to Production Readiness Review and release to Operations.
• Supporting Test Facility introduction and ensuring that appropriate configuration control of equipment and facilities is in place prior to use, including generating supporting test specifications and operator instructions.
• Supporting testing of electrical/electronic sub-assemblies and circuit cards, with diagnosis of production test failures down to component level.
• Working closely with Operations, the design teams and other stakeholders to overcome any technical challenges.
• Always aiming to deliver in line with all programme and quality requirements, whilst maintaining Test Engineering functional governance and pursuing continuous improvement.
• Work alongside Test Experts and design engineers to understand and implement the project test strategy and influence the design to include the appropriate testability solutions.
• Work alongside the Manufacturing management in compiling the initial process flows for new product.
• Create and maintain the test documentation for production test equipment.
• Support the Process FMEA, ensuring test mitigations are in place.
• Initialise test fixture designs for new product.
• Estimate the time taken to test new products.
• Support the design engineers in carrying out the functional & Environmental testing of initial prototypes.

You will be working with a small team of dedicated engineers in a fast-paced but friendly and inclusive manufacturing environment. The team has a great mix of people, ranging from apprentices and graduates through to experienced engineers, all striving to deliver technical excellence across a number of different missile systems in development and production.

Employees receive 25 days of paid annual leave per calendar year, in addition to all statutory and public holidays. After 5, 10 and 15 years of service, an additional day of annual leave is added to your allowance at each of these milestones. You can also enjoy more time off by purchasing up to an additional five days holiday through payroll.

We trust our people to agree, within their teams, where and when they can be most effective. Our Dynamic Working policies allow individuals great levels of flexibility around the hours they work and where they work. Depending on your role and function, this may include options for paid overtime, dynamic leave (time in lieu) and more.

Our MBDA Retirement Savings Plan is a 'Defined Contribution' plan in the Mercer Master Trust. The standard contributions are 4% of an employee's base salary and 6% employer contributions. You can increase both employee and employer contributions by up to 2%.

Financial Awareness - Employees have access to free financial webinars hosted throughout the year, along with access to a financial education website which provides plenty of useful hints, tips and guidance on managing financial wellness.

Share Incentive Plan - Acquire shares in our UK Shareholder, BAE Systems PLC, the scheme is tax efficient on shares purchased.

Mortgage Advice - As part of our financial wellbeing initiative employees can access free of charge mortgage advice and webinars.

Season Ticket Loan - Employees can borrow the value of public transport season ticket for bus or train journeys to and from work and spread the cost over 12 months.

Critical Illness - To help reduce the financial impact after being diagnosed with a critical illness, employees receive a tax-free lump sum payment that can be used for any purpose including covering medical expenses, adjustments to lifestyle and more.

Employee Assistance Programme - The Employee Assistance Programme is free, independent, confidential and is available 24 hours a day/365 days a year. Employees have access to short-term counselling (which includes up to 8 structured face to face, telephone or virtual sessions).

Voluntary Private Medical Insurance - Private Medical Insurance offers three healthcare plans to suit