ATE Test Engineer

Job Title ATE Test Engineer

Job Location Farnborough UK

Job 41089

About this opportunity and L3

Harris UK

Operating at 11 sites in the United Kingdom L3

Harris supports Britains mission to secure and strengthen the country by delivering sovereign innovation across the space air land sea and cyber domains.

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Harris in Farnborough specialises in secure ground and airborne communication and network systems for the military international forces and commercial customers. We engineer and maintain night vision goggles radar systems and tactical radios. The L3

Harris Falcon family of radios delivers network-centric communications for superior command and control real-time voice data full-motion HD video and crossbanding for mission-critical communications in a single integrated platform. Notably we are the proud designer supplier and maintainer of the 50000 tactical radios in the Bowman tactical C4I system in service with the UK Armed Forces and are working to define and deliver the next generation system Morpheus.

A few of our employee benefits are:

• 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:

• Resolution of ATE related faults will require knowledge of the interaction between the ATE and the product under test. Involving issues with hardware software and RF test.
• Support Manufacturing Technicians with all ATE related faults/issues.
• Assist with the development and modernisation of the ATE to address obsolescence and improve reliability and performance.
• Liaise with Design Engineering to resolve complex ATE related faults to maintain production test output.
• Re-commission of Automation Test Equipment following the swap-out of Test Equipment or following repair including the validation of product test results.
• Assist on cost-reduction and records to identify problem areas in test.
• Support Operations Test Engineering regarding the repair and maintenance of our mature Automated Test Equipment (ATE) involving detailed troubleshoot analysis and establishing root-cause.

What youll bring

The role requires the following experience and skills:

• Prior related experience as an ATE Test Engineer
• HNC or First degree in Electrical or Electronic Engineering or equivalent experience.
• A good understanding of systems engineering principles and development-life cycles including requirements integration validation and verification activities.
• Excellent IT skills with some experience of VB6 programming and Lab View or other software languages.
• Excellent RF Test Systems diagnostic skills.
• Experience of test data and trend analysis in a production environment.
• Experience of SQL language.

Important to know

Due to the nature of our work many our roles require a UK nationality and the ability to obtain a security clearance. Applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment must meet the requirement of right to work in the UK and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information and will be subject to government security checks.

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