Production Test Engineer

Production Test Engineer – Live Build – Electronic/Electrical

Location: Stevenage

Duration: 12 months with extension

Full time on site

Rate: GBP 24.46 – GBP 27.52 p/h PAYE OR GBP 32 – GBP 36 p/h Umbrella

Start: ASAP

Interview: F-2-F on site

Job purpose:

As a Production Test Engineer, you will play a vital role in supporting testing and diagnostics of electrical/electronic sub-systems and circuit cards during the production phase of the product lifecycle. You will use your experience to provide technical support to the manufacturing test capability, to ensure programme targets are met to agreed time, cost and quality requirements.

Day to day responsibilities:

• 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.
• Work alongside the Engineering Manager in compiling the initial process flows for new product.
• Support the Process FMEA, ensuring test mitigations are in place.
• Initialise test fixture designs for new product.
• Support the design engineers in carrying out the functional & ESS testing of initial prototypes

Essential Skills/Qualifications

• Minimum level 4 in an Engineering subject (preferably Electrical, Electronic, Aerospace or Mechanical), Physics or Maths. Must include modules for Electronic Principles (digital or analogue) or Electrical Principles.
• Experience in test engineering in a manufacturing/industrial environment
• Good understanding of digital and analogue electronic measurement and test principles, and fault diagnosis techniques.
• Awareness of electrical/electronic sub-system and system design, integration and test principles.
• Generation of test specifications, operator instructions and technical reports.

Desirable skills/experience

• Knowledge of RF and Microwave technology at the subsystem level.
• Experience in operating manual and automated test equipment in an Electronics Manufacturing environment.