Test Engineer - Decatur, GA

Job Summary

This team is in a renovated Innovation Center in Decatur, GA, which houses state‑of‑the‑art design validation equipment and facilities. The onsite café and indoor/outdoor exercise facilities offer competitive work‑life balance opportunities to achieve collective business and personal goals. This is a close‑knit team dedicated to serving engineering by conducting testing on new and existing products. The team is essential to new product development and is focused on continuous improvement of processes and practices in testing.

This role will be given the opportunity to be successful by learning from the best in lighting and will be encouraged to share your own ideas.

This role is onsite at our Innovation Center in Decatur, GA, operating on a 4‑day work week, Monday to Thursday from 7:00 AM to 6:00 PM, with occasional Fridays as needed based on testing priorities or project demands.

This role is responsible for test and measurement operations on Acuity Brands lighting products, components, and related materials. Additionally, this person will help maintain activity records, generate finished reports for the customer and forward finalized reports to the customer once the supervisor has reviewed and approved. Matrix partners for our Lab Technicians include engineers to modify products for additional testing.

Key responsibilities include:

• Certification testing to ensure products meet internal and external specifications (including UL, CSA, ANSI, and IEC). Testing is based on adapting the generic Certification body test method to the specific Acuity Brands product and includes set‑up, testing, reporting, and interpretation of results to product groups. This includes testing of digital, analog, and mixed signal electronic circuits for lighting and lighting controls.
  
  Responsibilities require soldering and thermocouple adhesion to board level components such as LEDs and resistors.
• Validation testing of Acuity Brands products, including electrical, mechanical, environmental, FCC, IEC, and IEEE testing, is required for third‑party safety verification.
• Photometric testing utilizing goniophotometers and integrating spheres to measure total flux output, spatial intensity distribution, and spectral distribution per IES, ANSI, and other applicable standards.
• Maintain lab space to meet 5S goals. Adapt and modify to improve testing performance as needs arise.
• Measure in accordance with KPI (key performance indicators) metrics. Shared accountability within the department to fulfill Acuity Brands Lighting/Lean initiatives. Use Lean tools and KPI measures to maintain a consistent flow through the lab and identify areas/activities in need of improvement.
• Develop new test methods per UL, CSA, ANSI, IEC and Acuity specific and create associated standard work and test procedures.
• Maintain test equipment and test equipment records.
• Train lab technicians.
• Automate test setups.

• BSEE degree (Electronics preferred, Mechanical, or Physics acceptable) or at least 2 years of experience working for a test lab under the umbrella of ISO 17025, preferably testing electrical and/or lighting systems.
• Proficiency at programming in Lab View or similar platform to test products.
• Highly desirable:
  Experience testing to UL924 Emergency Lighting and Power Equipment.
• Proficient with Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams, Microsoft Office, and other Windows applications.
• Training provided on the job.

• Medium work.
• Lift up to 40 lbs.

The range for this position is $66,500.00 to $. Placement within this range may vary, depending on the applicant’s experience and geographic location. Acuity offers generous benefits including health care, dental coverage, vision plans, 401K benefits, and commissions/incentive compensation depending on the role. For a list of our benefits, .

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