Production Test Engineer in Portsmouth, Hampshire

Job Profile

This is an exciting opportunity to join a cutting-edge engineering company working on the digital product line.

• Working on space flight processors for satellite manufacture this is working in a high spec clean room environment on world leading product.
• Test of electronic, analogue, digital and RF sub-systems up to 10 GHz. Including amplifiers, frequency up/down converters, complex RF and digital signal processing.
• Quality control of test results and documentation; Initial fault diagnosis and raising of non-conformance reports.
• Competent in the use of all types of propriety analogue and RF test equipment including vector and pulse network analysers.
• Flexible approach to working methods and patterns. Shift working will be required and overtime likely available over the weekend.
• Pro-active role in maintaining a safe working environment and a clear commitment to health and safety in the workplace.
• Willingness to accept change and actively support continuous improvement, wiling to develop skills as required in support of production (assembly, test, inspection and support) and implements these flexibly.

Qualifications

• Minimum Requirement: HNC or equivalent qualification in electronic discipline plus at least 1 to 2 years relevant experience.
• Desirable Requirement: HND in Electronics/physics and/or 5 years relevant experience.

Job Goals for Production Test Engineer (Portsmouth) Aerospace

• Achieve the production plan by certifying conformance of equipment by quality control production electrical testing in accordance with defined test procedures and company quality requirements.
• Working on the digital product line, with experience of dealing with the challenges that come from working with new test software and development FPGA code.
• Support business and departmental improvement initiatives.
• Support new product introduction and development.
• Feed into SQCDP process to monitor performance and drive improvements.

Support Engineering Production Test Engineer (Portsmouth) Aerospace

• Escalate deviations from work instructions, routing and any other production impacts to the production support team in the absences of the team leader.

Key Activities as a Production Test Engineer

• Maintain accurate quality control test results and test event logs.
• Provide first line fault analysis and raise mandatory non-conformance reports for non-compliant or anomalous tests.
• Support introduction of new test methods.
• Understand use and limitations of relevant test equipment.
• Support and contribute to the introduction of production improvement and efficiency initiatives.
• Have an awareness of business and departmental cost and schedule requirements.
• Adhere to company and departmental Health and Safety and COSHH (Control of Substances Hazardous to Health) processes and procedures.
• Conform to company and departmental policies and procedures.

Disclaimer:

This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited ("ARM"). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission.