Senior Test Engineer – Manufacturing
We have an exciting opportunity for a passionate Test Engineer to join our dynamic Manufacturing team.
Salary: Circa £44,000 depending on experience.
Dynamic (hybrid) working: 4‑5 days per week on‑site due to workload classification.
Benefits
* Company bonus: Up to £2,500 (based on company performance and will vary year to year)
* Pension: up to 14% total employer and employee contribution
* Paid overtime
* Flexi Leave: up to 15 additional days
* Flexible working arrangements
* Enhanced parental leave: up to 26 weeks (maternity, adoption, shared parental leave, with enhancements for paternity, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments)
* Site facilities: subsidised meals, free car parking
* Healthcare Cash Plan: claim cash back on everyday healthcare expenses such as optical, dental, health and wellbeing
Key Responsibilities
* Test and diagnostics of electrical/electronic sub‑systems and circuit cards during early product lifecycle phases.
* Provide technical support to manufacturing test capability, ensuring programme targets are met to agreed time, cost and quality requirements.
* Support test capability during Design/Development phases from initial concept through Production Readiness Review and release to Operations.
* Introduce test facilities, ensuring configuration control of equipment and facilities before use, and generate supporting test specifications and operator instructions.
* Test electrical/electronic sub‑assemblies and circuit cards, diagnosing production test failures to component level.
* Work closely with Operations, design teams and stakeholders to overcome technical challenges.
* Maintain Test Engineering governance and pursue continuous improvement.
* Collaborate with Test Experts and design engineers to implement project test strategy and influence design for testability.
* Compile initial process flows for new product with manufacturing management.
* Create and maintain test documentation for production test equipment.
* Support Process FMEA, ensuring test mitigations are in place.
* Initiate test fixture designs for new product.
* Estimate time required to test new products.
* Assist design engineers in functional and environmental testing of initial prototypes.
Qualifications
* Level 4 or greater in Engineering (Electrical, Electronic, Aerospace, Mechanical), Physics or Maths.
* Modules in Electronic Principles (digital or analogue) or Electrical Principles.
* Several years experience in related industry/manufacturing.
* Understanding of electrical/electronic measurement and test principles, test equipment and fault diagnosis techniques for sub‑assemblies.
* Experience with manual and automated test equipment, preferably in defence or similar manufacturing environment.
* Familiarity with enterprise resource planning and manufacturing execution systems (e.g. SAP, MES) for recording test activities and generating non‑conformance reports.
* Ability to plan and organise work to prioritise multiple tasks and meet project objectives.
* Strong verbal and written communication skills, including generation of test specifications, operator instructions and technical reports.
* Analytical, problem‑solving skills with strong attention to detail.
Security Clearance and Working Conditions
* British Citizenship only; all successful candidates must undergo HMG BPSS checks and obtain DV clearance.
* Hybrid working: 4‑5 days on site.
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