Senior Test Engineer

Location: Brighton and Hove

Job Title – Senior Test Engineer

Job Location – Brighton, UKOur Brighton business is moving to a new location in 2027 and will be within a 15-minute drive of our current site.

Job  – 40530

About this opportunity and L3

Harris UK Operating at 11 sites in the United Kingdom, L3

Harris supports Britain's mission to secure and strengthen the country by delivering sovereign innovation across the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains. L3

Harris in Brighton are part of our Release Systems & Antennas division operating in the Aerospace domain. For over 70 years, L3

Harris has designed and developed industry-leading carriage and release systems for fighter, rotary-wing and unmanned platforms and we design, manufacture and test a large portion of our release systems portfolio in our Brighton facility which offers 48,500 square feet of manufacturing space. Our mission-critical release systems equipment is on most major airborne fighter platforms worldwide, including the F-35, along with other aircraft like the Gripen and Typhoon.

Please note, our Brighton business is moving to a new location in 2027 and will be within a 15-minute drive of our current site. As this is a senior role the expectation will be to guide, mentor and lead less experienced Engineers to achieve efficient completion of tasks and on time delivery.  At this level the role will involve contributing to higher level project scheduling as well as developing very detailed schedules and plans to ensure on time delivery of test results.  

Although Safety is everyone’s responsibility at this level guidance and instruction to less experienced team members will be  a development environment design assurance testing is critical. This will involve creating test hardware and fixtures to test components and sub systems under accelerated test conditions.

A few of our employee benefits are:

Half day finish on a Friday
25 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays), increasing with long service and with the opportunity to buy/sell up to 5 days Private medical insurance with optional family cover

Pension scheme of up to 8% employer contribution

Life Assurance 4x salary (flexible up to 10x) Group income protection

Flexible opt-in extras such as a health care cash plan, dental insurance, gym membership, critical illness cover, cycle to work scheme, travel insurance and electric car scheme

Employee Family Assistance Program providing mental health and wellbeing support Professional membership reimbursement (discretionary) What the role will involve

The responsibilities of your role will include the following:

Create Type Approval Test Plans to satisfy the certification requirements of Customer Specification and related standards (usually distilled from verification compliance matrix). Develop detailed Qualification Test procedures.

Conduct the required tests and prepare Qualification Test Reports to support Airworthiness Certification (DDP/Certificate of Design).Support Internal and Customer Design reviews throughout the Development Life Cycle Provide analysis of the test results.

Support for trade studies.

Verification of interface control documents, compatibility of physical and functional interfaces and first article production integration.

Investigate and implement solutions to products, process or test problems.

Analysis of requirements for integration and/or testability.

Develop and implement both hardware and software system level test programmes.

Designing, developing and implementing cost effective procedures for testing and troubleshooting subassemblies, assemblies and systems.

Enhancing and developing test facilities and capabilities.

What you’ll bring The role requires the following experience and skills:

Test system design and implementation

Test fixture design

Electro-mechanical test

High pressure pneumatics (400 bar) derived from bottled inert gas, compressors and boost pumps

LabVIEW software and data acquisition (DAQ) equipment

Sensors — accelerometers, load cells, pressure transducers, LVDTHigh Speed Cameras Hoists & lifting equipment (2000kg)
Environmental testing:
Temperature, Humidity, Vibration Diagnosis of faults/issues

Feedback of test results into design…