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Our client, a trusted partner of the Ministry of Defence in the UK, is seeking a skilled Test Architect to play a crucial role in defining and managing the requirements for Test Equipment and Test Specifications. This position is based at our Bolton site.
What we're looking for:
- Ideally educated to degree level with substantial experience in Test, Electrical, and electronic engineering.
- Digital electronics and microprocessor systems.
- Analogue electronics; Power Electronics.
- Test Equipment Design.
- DOORS (Essential)
Key Skills and Qualifications:
- Good understanding of Project Management, planning, cost, and budget control.
- Ability to manage diverse and conflicting stakeholders effectively.
- Capability to technically manage internal and sub-contract activities.
- Strong influencing skills with managers and stakeholders across the company.
- Determination and desire to succeed.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (both written and verbal).
What you'll get to do as a Test Architect:
To ensure the success of the project, it is essential to define and implement a comprehensive test strategy. This includes establishing the project BIT architecture, which encompasses coverage requirements, timings, and system-level routines. Additionally, specifying missile factory pass-out testing is crucial to ensure the correct build and to support the manufacturing team with optimal test stages during production.
In-service test routines on missiles must also be specified to maintain operational integrity. It is important to generate and manage compliance with lower-level test requirements for design teams, including test access needs, BIT coverage/timings, and factory test functionality. Analyzing and modeling systems to understand test coverage and generate diagnostic instructions is another key aspect of the strategy.
Furthermore, proposing and recommending cost versus test coverage trade-offs with the Chief Design Engineer will help in making informed decisions. Finally, producing and maintaining plans for activities within the sphere of responsibility will ensure that all tasks are aligned with the project's objectives and timelines.
Join MBDA and be part of our dynamic team, shaping the future of defence technology.
Security Clearance: British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship
Restrictions and/or limitations relating to nationality and/or rights to work may apply. As a minimum and after offer stage, all successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS), which are managed by our clients Security Team.
More about the role:
Our client's relationship with the UK military spans back over 70 years. They have delivered countless landmarks in defence engineering, supplying vital defence capability to meet the needs of the armed forces over land, sea, and air.
This job is at our client's site in Bolton facility, one of the North West's leading manufacturing sites for at least 25 years. The facility offers showers and bike racks and is near the motorway, with a petrol station outside. Amenities like an onsite canteen. All employees get training and development opportunities.
Guidant Global (BH4SF) is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
