Environmental Test Engineer

Role &

Job Summary:

Location: Farnboroug
Role Type: Permanent

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Environmental Test Engineer to join the Test & Qualification team in Farnborough, with the potential for a significant increase in responsibility over the next 2-3 years.

This team performs a critical role within the Business Unit, supporting, through standard and often innovative physical testing, the development of technologies at low technology readiness levels (TRL), exploring the limits of product capability and beyond to really understand our designs and the verification of product performance against our customer’s requirements. Additionally, the team is also called upon to provide a testing capability to other functions within the business.

The products tested are typically highly engineered sensors and associated signal transmitting cables that measure the performance characteristics of and survive the extreme environment of gas turbine engines used in various applications, chiefly aeronautics.

There has been continued and significant investment in the environmental test equipment and capabilities over recent years, providing the Test Engineer with the ability to conduct testing in accordance with the industry requirements of RTCA DO-160 and MIL-810 standards on-site.

You will enjoy working in a dynamic and fast paced environment, applying your analytical mind-set and practical approach to solve challenging technical problems every day. You will thrive working in an environment with a high volume of work, being able to effectively prioritise tasks and manage your time.

You will actively participate in the New Product Introduction (NPI) process, with the opportunity to influence and contribute to the design of new sensors. In this role, you will work with autonomy and be empowered to analyse test data and make fact-based, risk-informed decisions on a regular basis. To be successful in this role you will be proactive, tenacious in your pursuit of a full understanding of the test data and motivated to deliver high quality outputs that are ‘right first time’.

• Perform a range of environmental (and mechanical) tests in accordance with the laboratory procedures, to support the Engineering NPI process, Innovation project work streams and other departments
• Designing and setting up tests, and procuring specialised fixtures and equipment
• Performing tests including vibration, mechanical shock, thermal cycling and thermal shock, waterproofness, salt spray, di-electric and other electrical parameters as required by the respective Test Plan/RTCA DO-160/MIL-810
• Working closely with product and design engineers and project managers
• Assist in the execution of Qualification Test campaigns
• Perform data analysis, prepare Test Reports and Test Certificates, with a ‘right first time’ mind-set
• Peer review of test reports and other documentation within the laboratory
• Maintain and update laboratory test procedures, incorporating best practice and safety improvements
• Assist with test failure investigations
• Ensure all test equipment is calibrated and appropriate stock levels for key equipment is maintained (e.g. accelerometers, cables, equipment spares)
• Ensure that all testing activities comply with safety, quality, and regulatory requirements
• Perform Total Preventative Maintenance (TPM) on all key laboratory test equipment
• Have an awareness of External Test providers to supplement internal testing capability or as required by capacity constraints
• Proactive contribute to continuous improvement initiatives in test methodologies, processes, and laboratory operations
• Training of technicians in the use of laboratory test equipment and working methods/procedures

Essential

• Educated to degree level (or equivalent)
• Previous proven experience in a test laboratory environment, with an emphasis on aerospace product testing or testing within a regulated industry
• Knowledge of environmental test procedures and methods, with broad understanding of the underlying fundamentals of vibration testing
• Understanding measurement system variation, how to determine variation and…