Electronics Test Engineer

Electronic Test Engineer – 12 month fixed term contract - £32k

We are looking to recruit a Electronic Test Engineer Engineer to join the team on a permanent contract, reporting to the Manufacturing Supervisor. As Technician Engineer you will test, diagnose, and repair our traffic communication product portfolio consisting of radios and supporting equipment.

What you will do:

Test, diagnose and repair electro-mechanical equipment utilizing an array of test equipment including oscilloscopes, radio test sets and signal analysers
Test, diagnose and repair PCBA’s down to component level in accordance with IPC level 2 and 3
Safety test customer and production equipment
Produce test and repair customer documentation
Enter symptom, fault diagnosis and fix onto appropriate IT systems and fault databases
Monitor job costs (labour and materials) to ensure repairs remain under the quoted target and liaise with customer support department in the case of projected cost over-runs
Monitor and implement CSD actions and change notices to upgrade customer equipment as required
Recognise repeat failures within repairs and highlight trends to development engineering and supervision
Provide technical feedback to the development engineering department relating to fault root cause analysis
Ensure all equipment is within calibration and appropriate safety certifications (PAT) prior to use
Maintain the job status on our IT systems including T-Card and ERP
Accurately record productive and non-productive hours on our ERP system
Provide updates to Customer Services Department on customers’ equipment repair status, & repair costing
Identify inefficiencies within test programs and suggest changes/improvements to production engineering
Provide training & support to production operators, technicians & technician engineers

Requirements What we are looking for:
A BTEC National Certificate/Diploma or HNC,
Interest in electro-mechanical componentry and products
Thorough knowledge of analogue and digital RF principles

Experience of fault finding on electronic units in a manufacturing environment, using appropriate test equipment and circuit diagrams.
Repair and rework hand soldering experience
The ability to use own initiative
Good communication skills
Confident to ask questions
Quick learner
Enjoy hands on and practical work