Product Test Development Engineer

Senior Product Test Development Engineer

Glenrothes or Livingston (4 days p/week on site) - 12 Month contract (Inside IR35) – BPSS Required

Copello are working with a leading defence and aerospace company operating across the United Kingdom. You’ll be working for a major supplier to the UK government and customers around the globe, providing defence solutions across all domains: land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace.

Primary Purpose of this position

Responsible for the design, manufacture, verification and validation, along with through life technical support of board level, sub-system and system level test equipment.

Main duties

• Design of functional test equipment

• To take responsibility for the design and overall quality of the test equipment and provide leadership and guidance for junior engineers.

• Documentation of design specifications and implementation details. Take part in design reviews. Upholding of design standards and methodologies.

• Realisation of complex system requirements to provide robust and reliable test hardware solutions.

• Responsibility for the complete implementation of detailed technical items and an understanding/appreciation of system level items.

• Collaboration with other team members (including both hardware and software engineers) to agree system designs, interfaces and protocols etc.

• Development of appropriate test hardware, test software and procedures, both informal and formal, to prove the correct operation of hardware.

• Provide support to manufacturing answering product queries & resolving technical issues.

• Proactively support company compliance to Health and Safety legislation through adherence to company polices, processes and practices.

• Ensure that all business activity is conducted in line with company values, policies and ethics codes of conduct.

• Undertake any other activity as reasonably requested by management

• Accountable for engineering specific risks and opportunities.

• Contribute to section/business area resource planning with a working understanding of Microsoft Project tools.

• Test Engineering Lead for a small/medium scale test engineering program

• Contributor/Approver for standard/tailored test development process including IPDS gates and content

Knowledge & Experience:

Essential:

• Degree qualified in Electronic Engineering/related subject (preferably at 2.1 Hons or higher).

• Test software design experience.

• Excellent knowledge of analogue and digital electronic circuit design.

• Ability to write comprehensive technical design documentation.

• Proven experience in handover and management of designs in production.

• Excellent hardware troubleshooting skills.

Highly Desirable:

• Significant test development experience in industry.

• Use of Mentor Graphics schematic entry and PCB layout tools.

• Understanding of common test architectures PXI/d LXI

• Measurement Uncertainty and its application in test equipment design and validation

• Software Certification or detailed knowledge of: NI LabView, NI CVI, NI TestStand, C#

• Design of mix signal circuits

• High speed serial networks