Test Equipment Engineer

Test Equipment Engineer

Leonardo Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

At Leonardo, we have an opportunity for a Test Equipment Engineer. Leonardo is a global high‑tech company and one of the key players in Aerospace, Defence and Security. Headquartered in Italy, Leonardo has over 45,000 employees, of which 7,000 are based in the UK. The Radar and Advanced Targeting line of business, based in Edinburgh, is uniquely positioned as one of the world’s top manufacturers of radars, lasers and infra‑red countermeasure systems.

We are looking to recruit an experienced Engineer to enhance our team. You will be joining Leonardo’s Electronics Division and will provide engineering support to the Support and Services Solutions (CS3) business unit and the Product Support Group (PSG).

The role of Test Equipment Engineer within Test Systems Engineering is key to delivering an effective support service to the various users of Test Equipment across the Edinburgh site. The role involves joining a team of engineers ensuring that calibration, repair, maintenance and safety testing activities are completed in a manner that maximises availability of the equipment in the Production Halls and Engineering Labs.

The business areas of PSG Test Equipment support under your control are Laser, Radar, MEG, Mechanical Calibration activities and CS3.

You will be a good communicator both directly within your team and with all major stakeholders. A close working relationship should be developed with external partners and suppliers resulting in effective asset management. The ability to prioritise and balance workload within the team is required. An awareness of the activities that drive cost will be an important element of the role.

This will involve optimising the periodicity of calibration and maintenance operations, identification and elimination of pattern faults to drive down repair costs and reviewing working procedures for quality and consistency. You will support production meetings, providing updates on PSG activities both WIP and pending that may or will have, reporting on PSG related activities and it affects Test Station down time.

An HNC / HND qualified in Electronic Engineering with experience in fault finding complex electronic systems and PC controllers. An understanding and experience of Accurate Measurement, Calibration & Metrology, would be advantageous but not essential.

A range of skills will be required in this role. Experience of mixed technologies test equipment is required especially the ability to troubleshoot RF test equipment and knowledge of a wide range of computer PC hardware architectures and PC troubleshooting techniques will be required. Ideally have working experience in a Production Hall or Lab environments with experience of the maintenance requirements of general purpose and special-to-type test equipment.

Planned preventive scheduled activities and supporting calibration events will be a main part of the role.

A close working relationship will be required with Test Equipment Design Authorities, Manufacturing Hall Supervisors and Equipment Operators to provide effective maintenance and successful closure of technical issues.

A knowledge of and be familiar with basic P.S.U. & Electronic Circuitry, TTL / CMOS Logic circuits, Pulse & Signal Generators, Analogue & Digital Oscilloscope’s and Digital Multimeters. Have knowledge of DOS and Microsoft Windows Operating Systems.

A reasonable understanding of basic Software, e.g. Word, Excel, etc. and possibly H.P. Basic (though not essential) would be of use.

This role is subject to pre‑employment screening in line with the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personnel Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NSV) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV). For more information and guidance please visit

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