Manufacturing Test Engineer

Senior Test Engineer – Manufacturing

We have an exciting opportunity for a passionate Test Engineer to join our dynamic Manufacturing team.

Salary:
Circa £44,000 depending on experience.

Dynamic (hybrid) working: 4‑5 days per week on‑site due to workload classification.

• Company bonus:
  Up to £2,500 (based on company performance and will vary year to year)
• Pension: up to 14% total employer and employee contribution
• Paid overtime
• Flexi Leave: up to 15 additional days
• Flexible working arrangements
• Enhanced parental leave: up to 26 weeks (maternity, adoption, shared parental leave, with enhancements for paternity, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments)
• Site facilities: subsidised meals, free car parking
• Healthcare Cash Plan: claim cash back on everyday healthcare expenses such as optical, dental, health and wellbeing

• Test and diagnostics of electrical/electronic sub‑systems and circuit cards during early product lifecycle phases.
• Provide technical support to manufacturing test capability, ensuring programme targets are met to agreed time, cost and quality requirements.
• Support test capability during Design/Development phases from initial concept through Production Readiness Review and release to Operations.
• Introduce test facilities, ensuring configuration control of equipment and facilities before use, and generate supporting test specifications and operator instructions.
• Test electrical/electronic sub‑assemblies and circuit cards, diagnosing production test failures to component level.
• Work closely with Operations, design teams and stakeholders to overcome technical challenges.
• Maintain Test Engineering governance and pursue continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with Test Experts and design engineers to implement project test strategy and influence design for testability.
• Compile initial process flows for new product with manufacturing management.
• Create and maintain test documentation for production test equipment.
• Support Process FMEA, ensuring test mitigations are in place.
• Initiate test fixture designs for new product.
• Estimate time required to test new products.
• Assist design engineers in functional and environmental testing of initial prototypes.

• Level 4 or greater in Engineering (Electrical, Electronic, Aerospace, Mechanical), Physics or Maths.
• Modules in Electronic Principles (digital or analogue) or Electrical Principles.
• Several years experience in related industry/manufacturing.
• Understanding of electrical/electronic measurement and test principles, test equipment and fault diagnosis techniques for sub‑assemblies.
• Experience with manual and automated test equipment, preferably in defence or similar manufacturing environment.
• Familiarity with enterprise resource planning and manufacturing execution systems (e.g. SAP, MES) for recording test activities and generating non‑conformance reports.
• Ability to plan and organise work to prioritise multiple tasks and meet project objectives.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including generation of test specifications, operator instructions and technical reports.
• Analytical, problem‑solving skills with strong attention to detail.

• British Citizenship only; all successful candidates must undergo HMG BPSS checks and obtain DV clearance.
• Hybrid working: 4‑5 days on site.