Test Equipment Engineering Team Lead
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Salary: £75,000 - £85,000 (dependent on experience)
Role Overview
Lead a cross‑disciplinary team designing and supporting manufacturing test systems used on complex electronic products. Focus on improving test processes, ensuring robustness and production readiness, and fostering continuous improvement of test capability.
Responsibilities
* Leading, mentoring and supporting a team of multi‑discipline engineers.
* Managing team capacity, priorities and resourcing to meet delivery demands.
* Providing technical leadership across automated manufacturing test systems.
* Designing and supporting test equipment, fixtures and test software (C#).
* Working closely with Manufacturing, NPI, Quality and Development teams.
* Defining test strategies, coverage and Design for Test approaches.
* Supporting trial builds, pilots and production ramp‑up.
add>Ensuring test systems are robust, repeatable and production‑ready.
* Driving continuous improvement across test capability, processes and ways of working.
* Supporting both in‑house manufacturing and external partners where required.
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Qualifications
o Experience designing and delivering manufacturing test systems.
o Strong technical background in either software or hardware test with system‑level understanding.
o Previous experience leading, mentoring or managing engineers.
o C# experience for test system development or support.
o Understanding of electrical measurement, test principles and validation.
o Experience analysing test data and improving yield, repeatability and efficiency.
o Exposure to mid‑volume production environments.
o Proven problem‑solving skills and practical engineering judgement.
o Comfortable with task delegation, prioritisation and resource planning.
o An interest in developing people and improving team performance.
o Able to balance.multiply delivery pressure with quality and sustainability.
o Clear, confident communicator across technical and non‑technical teams.
o Happy to undertake UK & International travel as needed.
Benefits
o Salary of £75,000 - £85,000, dependent on experience.
o Subsidised onsite restaurant.
o Enhanced pension contribution.
o Employee assistance program.
o Large free parking area.
o Social events.
If you’re looking for a role where leadership and engineering genuinely go hand in hand, this is one worth exploring – send your CV today!
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