Lead Test and Verification Engineer

CV-Library
Chelmsford, Essex
12 months ago
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Lead Test and Verification Engineer - Space/Satellite/Imaging – On site in Chelmsford

Always working at the cutting edge of technology, our client has an enviable reputation as a world leader, developing products for the scientific and satellite/space industries. An exciting opportunity has arisen for an aerospace candidate to join as a Lead Verification and Test Engineer. Working across all stages of space and science projects for imaging devices and subsystems, this role covers a wide range of hands-on, clean-room, and office-based engineering tasks relating to a variety of activities, including electro-optical testing, electrical continuity testing, accelerated life testing, and mechanical stress testing.

The Lead Product Verification Engineer is responsible for defining test flows, commissioning test equipment, verifying test capability, training operations personnel to perform testing, supporting production line testing, and planning & verifying reliability test campaigns. If you are passionate about world-leading space-based technology, thrive on big challenges with broad impact, and want to join a team tasked with continuously innovating to take the business to a completely new level, then this is a fantastic opportunity for you!

Duties will include:

• Delivery and management of allocated work packages and tasks
• Writing project documentation, including test plans, procedures and test reports
• Commissioning test equipment in accordance with internal and customer specifications, including some scripting and coding for Automated Test Equipment
• Performing technical investigations into failure modes and anomalous results
• Supporting internal and customer meetings by presenting technical information
• Supporting teams outside of the Product Verification Team, including Operations and Process Engineering

Qualifications:

• Previous test and verification experience within aerospace
• Understanding of test development, commissioning and fault finding
• Experience using LabVIEW or MATLAB in an industrial, academic or lab-based environment
• Analysis skills

Salary and Benefits:

• Working on site in Chelmsford
• Training and access to the “Internal University”
• Rapid career progression opportunities
• Pensions and Life Assurance
• Variable Pay options include: Employee bonuses, Sales Incentive Plans and Recognition Schemes
• Discount arrangements on a wide range of goods, hospitality providers, personal electronics and services
• Excellent career mobility with national and international opportunities
• Occupational health provisions and medical benefits
• Employee assistance and well-being support

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