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12 Month Contract – Inside IR35 – Onsite in Stevenage
Up to £36 per hour umbrella
Job Role:
- Technical support to the manufacturing test of weapons sub-systems in production and development test and diagnostics of complex weapons at system and subsystem level.
- Provide Test Engineering support during Design / Development phases from initial concept through to Production Readiness Review and release to Operations.
- Support Test Facility introduction and ensure that configuration control of equipment and facilities is in place prior to use, including generating supporting test specifications and operator instructions.
- Support to testing of electrical / electronic weapon systems and sub-assemblies, with diagnosis of production test failures down to circuit card and potentially component level.
- Identification of remedial and corrective actions, in a timely manner allowing manufacturing to continue production in line with programme.
- Evaluation of technical problems in order to develop proposals for test equipment investigations and corrective actions, including process improvements.
- Test Engineering representative at Defect Review Board meetings to ensure efficient progress of equipment and quality notifications towards corrective action.
Key Skills and Experience:
- Must have significant experience with measurement and test principles, and associated test equipment.
- Electronic Component level fault finding
- CADMID product lifecycle for test equipment is desirable.
- RF and microwave technology at subsystem level would be an advantage.
- Environmental testing would also be an advantage.
- High Voltage training/awareness.
- SAP Beneficial
- MS Office skills
- Good verbal and written communication skills, including generation of test specifications, operator instructions and technical reports based on higher-level requirements.
- Manual handling training.
- ESD training.
Qualifications:
- HNC/HND (Electronics) Level of Qualifications or equivalent, plus good level of experience in digital & analogue electronics manufacture and test.
