Senior Test Development Engineer
Location - Glenrothes
Copello are working with a leading defence and aerospace company operating across the United Kingdom. You’ll be working for a major supplier to the UK government and customers around the globe, providing defence solutions across all domains: land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. The role will be an initial 6 month contract with Hybrid working (3 days p/week on site.)
Primary Purpose of this position
Responsible for the design, manufacture, verification and validation, along with through life technical support of board level, sub-system and system level test equipment.
Main duties:
- Design of functional test equipment
- To take responsibility for the design and overall quality of the test equipment and provide leadership and guidance for junior engineers.
- Documentation of design specifications and implementation details. Take part in design reviews. Upholding of design standards and methodologies.
- Realisation of complex system requirements to provide robust and reliable test hardware solutions.
- Responsibility for the complete implementation of detailed technical items and an understanding/appreciation of system level items.
- Collaboration with other team members (including both hardware and software engineers) to agree system designs, interfaces and protocols etc.
- Development of appropriate test hardware, test software and procedures, both informal and formal, to prove the correct operation of hardware.
- Provide support to manufacturing answering product queries & resolving technical issues.
- Provide support for the test hardware and manage obsolescence throughout its lifecycle.
- Monitoring and reporting of progress of test development to immediate supervisor and development team.
- Proactively support company compliance to Health and Safety legislation through adherence to company polices, processes and practices.
- Ensure that all business activity is conducted in line with company values, policies and ethics codes of conduct.
- Undertake any other activity as reasonably requested by management
- Application of IPDS Processes
- Accountable for engineering specific risks and opportunities.
- Key contributor at Gate/Design reviews
- Provides guidance of Test Development processes and tools.
- Contribute to section/business area resource planning with a working understanding of Microsoft Project tools.
- Test Engineering Lead for a small/medium scale test engineering program
- Ability to identify and engage the appropriate SME's to support the Test Development Engineering activities.
- Contributor/Approver for standard/tailored test development process including IPDS gates and content
- Key interface to external customers/suppliers.
Knowledge & Experience:
Essential:
- Degree qualified in Electronic Engineering/related subject (preferably at 2.1 Hons or higher).
- Test software design experience.
- Excellent knowledge of analogue and digital electronic circuit design.
- Ability to write comprehensive technical design documentation.
- Proven experience in handover and management of designs in production.
- Excellent hardware troubleshooting skills.
- Able to support/debug system integration
- Good knowledge of MS Office products
- Must be eligible for MOD Security Clearance to a minimum of SC level
Highly Desirable:
- Significant test development experience in industry.
- Use of Mentor Graphics schematic entry and PCB layout tools.
- Understanding of common test architectures PXI/d LXI
- Measurement Uncertainty and its application in test equipment design and validation
- Software Certification or detailed knowledge of: NI LabView, NI CVI, NI TestStand, C#
- Design of mix signal circuits
- High speed serial networks
- An appreciation of RF electronics
- Knowledge of power supply design
