Lead Test Development Engineer - Near Edinburgh (Hybrid)
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Edinburgh
Job Ref: BBBH157521_1739875181
Date Added: February 18th, 2025
Consultant: Liam Kirton
* Hybrid - 3 days in office near Edinburgh, very commutable from Lothians, Fife, and surrounding areas; 2 days working from home.
Lorien's long-standing, successful, and expanding client, with offices very commutable from Central Edinburgh, West Lothian, Fife, and the surrounding areas (hybrid 3 in, 2 remote), is looking to recruit a Lead Test Development Engineer to join their multidisciplinary tech function.
You'll be leading a newly-built Test Development squad; putting your skills to good use as you contribute towards the success of a firm that has improved the lives of millions around the globe already. It's a great time to join, as they're in the middle of a wider recruitment drive and significant internal investment in their products and staff.
The successful individual will predominantly lead the team (80% of your workload), as well as conceptualising and realising tests for key hardware and software (20%), all the while enjoying working for an organisation giving something back to the world in a very positive way.
In return, you'll join a supportive organisation well-versed in keeping their staff happy, with a generous bonus scheme, flexible hybrid working, plenty of opportunities to upskill and progress professionally, annual salary reviews, and a range of other benefits designed with employee happiness in mind.
In this role you can expect to:
* Lead a newly established TDE team from both technical and personal perspectives, including line management, overseeing the squad's day-to-day operations, contributing to the overall test strategy and vision, and liaising with senior stakeholders from other departments and disciplines.
* Create test systems from scratch and develop solutions to verify system/sub-system performance, test for weaknesses, and take charge of non-routine fault isolation, diagnosis, and resolution wherever required.
* Work with the wider function on design reviews/output demonstrations, ensuring requirements and DfX deliverables are met.
* Implement test and team improvement ideas through metrics analysis of trends, failure modes, and test yields.
* Develop new test/deployment strategies and improvements to tooling/solutions, execute project plans, and ensure the team's work aligns with business goals.
And what we're looking for:
* Demonstrable, strong leadership skills in a technical function (ideally in an established R&D/Manufacturing context).
* Good grasp of building test systems from scratch (not web testing) as well as the Systems Engineering lifecycle and relevant test methodologies/toolsets.
* Ideally skills with tooling such as LabView, Python, C++, or other similar/relevant offerings, though the leadership elements are far more important here, and they are open to people crossing over and training up on the technical fronts.
* Good understanding of requirements analysis, as well as flow-down of higher-level requirements to lower-level sub-systems/electromechanical systems.
* Ability to liaise with people at all levels, add value to strategy/vision discussions, and improve from the top-down and ground-up.
This would be a fantastic role for someone who likes the sound of joining an established organisation at a very exciting time. If this sounds good so far, let us know and apply now with your latest CV for immediate consideration.
Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
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