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Test & Qualification Engineer
Location: Plymouth - Min three days on site
A vacancy has arisen for a Test & Qualification Engineer to work within the Engineering team providing support to the Test & Qualification team.
This role is focused on supporting the development projects during the development phase where the products are passed through their formal qualification and approval phase prior to the entry into production.
This role can be located at the main site in Plymouth or the office in Bristol, all internal testing is conducted at the Plymouth site.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Assessing impact of changes/deviations on products to define the required qualification activities
2. Ensure projects delivered to schedule, cost & quality
3. Providing inputs to planning, estimation and project management activities
4. Support to Bids and Proposals: resourcing and technical compliance
5. Technical support for internal/external customer focused presentations, teleconferences and meetings
6. Liaise with Production and test houses (internal/external) to book test slots
7. Liaise with logistics to arrange for kit to be delivered an collected at external test facilities to support offsite testing
8. Carry out product qualification testing (internal/external)
9. Understanding customer requirements, generation of qualification test plans, reports and compliance tracking
10. The role may include travel to UK and foreign customer sites to support technical meetings, trials and qualification testing.
Key Skills and Experience
11. Applicants must have a minimum of a 2.1 Bachelor’s Degree in an Engineering or a similar discipline.
12. Minimum 3 years’ experience working in an Engineering role on sensor related product design and development to military, aerospace and commercial standards
13. Proficiency in MS Office tools, with good knowledge of Word, Excel and PowerPoint
14. Good organisation and communication skills
15. Capacity to manage several tasks or requests simultaneously
16. Ability to work collaboratively within a large team
17. Ability to work independently and prioritise workload
Desirable Skills:
18. Leading a project
19. International collaboration, multi-cultural team-working
20. Ability to analyse and interpret data from various sources
21. Competent in technical report writing and presentations
22. A team player and effective communicator
23. Able to interact at all technical levels with technical teams and/or project leaders
24. In depth technical knowledge of inertial measurement units (IMU)
25. Experience of the product introduction lifecycle (concept definition to product launch)
26. Problem solving (Root Cause Analysis)
27. Mathematical modelling tools (e.g. Matlab, Minitab)