Role
Lead Test Engineer onsite at the Fareham Campus, responsible for engineering test solutions for electro mechanical products and managing the full lifecycle of test engineering.
Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities
- Lead the Test Engineering group, guiding and supporting general Test Engineers and managing workload distribution within the team and with external third parties.
- Analyse Master / Systems / Sub System requirements and conformance specifications to derive test requirements.
- Plan, design, and communicate test cases that verify and validate requirements across a broad range of electro mechanical systems for both development and production lifecycle phases.
- Ensure closure of workload packages derived from requirement analysis, manage formal Test Reports and other evidence based materials to support conclusions of investigations.
- Define the design of test jigs, harnesses and software to enable execution of test cases, including where appropriate the use of automation.
- Implement data processing / filtering software in a variety of packages to extract relevant results into databases / analysis software packages.
- Manage internal test facilities (test tanks, ovens, pools, lifting equipment).
- Liaise with external test facilities (EMC, vibration, pools, etc.).
- Conduct fault finding and failure analysis.
- Document and present results and findings.
Essential Skills
- HNC or Degree in a relevant engineering discipline.
- Competent in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
- Previous experience in personnel supervision / management, to coach and mentor staff and manage their workload.
- Ability to work unsupervised to tight timescales.
- Working knowledge of Mechanical Engineering principles.
- Working knowledge of Software principles in relation to products - embedded and associated tool chains.
- Competent and able to use Microsoft Office to a high level.
- Experienced and high level competence with National Instruments LabView and TestStand software tool chains within a test and measurement environment.
- Experienced with creating / modifying software scripts / programs e.g. Python, Visual Basic, C, C++.
- Three years in a test focused role, or within test equipment development.
- Proven experience in data capture and analysis.
- Expertise in Verification & Validation processes and associated tools and techniques.
- Proven experience working on multi disciplinary systems (electrical, mechanical, software).
- Excellent knowledge of test equipment and platforms.
- Data capture - logging.
- Excellent communication - both written and verbal.
- Enthusiasm, drive and personality.
Desirable Skills
- Degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
- Formal qualification in Mechanical Engineering and/or Software.
- National Instruments certified developer.
- Experience with system engineering / project management tools - EA / DOORS, etc.
- Experience in the offshore and/or subsea industry.
- Knowledge of product certification, best practice and industry standards.
- Knowledge of compliance standards and certification (CE / DNV).
- Expert or advanced user of Microsoft Excel.
- Experience with data archiving / controlled repositories management.
- Previous experience in a customer facing role.
Equal Opportunity Statement
Saab is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer - all qualified individuals are encouraged to apply and will be considered without regard to race, colour, religion, national origin, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, veteran or disability status.