What you'll do: - Planning, executing and monitoring development and qualification testing activities on hydraulic and electro-hydraulic aircraft components, with support and guidance from engineering team. - Safe execution of all tasks by following corporate and departmental safety procedures. - Practical assembly, commissioning and operation of bespoke hydraulic and electro-hydraulic development and qualification test setups. - Setup and configuration of high speed data acquisition, control and automation systems, working with a range of analogue and digital signal types. - Post-processing, analysis, and presentation of gathered data. - Development and assembly of prototypes and engineering test units. - Working in a high quality, high safety environment. - Technical approval of hydraulic development and qualification test setups. Ownership and maintenance of engineering procedures related to engineering development and test. - Working to aerospace industry standards & specifications, as well as aircraft specific requirements. - Managing and maintaining engineering test equipment, instrumentation and facilities. - Technical support to production department, supporting production investigations as well as supporting the specification, commissioning and troubleshooting of production test equipment. - Ensuring timely and consistent communication on status of development and qualification activities, and working to project deadlines. - Support to testing and investigation of in-service failures & air accident investigations. Qualifications: - HNC or equivalent UK level 4 qualification or higher, in a technical discipline. Skills: - Scrupulous and attentive approach to risk and safety. Strong advocate for safety requirements and protocols. - Good practical skills and willingness to engage in hands-on activities including prototyping and testing. - Strong learning agility, quickly learns and adapts to new software, systems, and hardware; uses external information to solve problems independently. - Proactiveness, initiative and drive to work well independently and as part of an engineering team. - Foundation electronic knowledge and ability to apply fundamental electrical and electronic principles to data gathering, signal conditioning, control, and automation activities. - Able to use basic tools to handle data and turn it into charts and graphs. - Applied critical thinking skills, taking a systematic and evidence-based approach to problem solving. - Keen observational skills, with good record keeping, meticulousness and attention to detail. - Good presentation and communication skills, both verbal and written. - Good standard of professionalism, particularly in customer facing scenarios. - Theoretical and practical experience of hydraulic system setup and operation. - Experience using NI DiaDEM for data handling and analysis. - Practical experience with test instrumentation and data acquisition systems. - Practical experience in programming and debugging PLC systems, or other small-scale control / automation systems. - Comfortable using VBA scripts, batch scripts or other desktop automation tools to automate workflow. - Eaton certified QEW (Qualified Electrical Worker) level 1 or 2 - Experience in assessment of risk per HSE principles. - Familiar with 8D process, and able to contribute to 8D investigations. - Familiar with RTCA/DO-160 and MIL-STD-810 environmental testing requirements.