Test Engineer

Test Engineer
Location: Horsham
Salary: Up to £30,000

Role of Test Engineer
A market leading Engineering / Manufacturing company are seeking Test Engineer to provide test engineering capability and expertise to support development of a low cost , next generation products. Working closely with development engineering and scientists to take test objectives and develop & execute test plans rigorously , and to tight timescales.

Key Accountabilities of Test Engineer:

• Provide test data and test capability in the development of products

• Support development activities of development Scientists

• Identifying opportunities for test automation to improve test resource utilisation

• Review data and present findings and recommendations to test requestors and managers

• Testing Products

• Risk Assessments

• Test Design ( DoE )

• Instrumentation definition

• Test hardware installation , test stand modifications , and test sequence coding

• Data analysis

• Fault finding

• Report writing

• Improvement projects

Desirable Skills and Experience for Test Engineer:

• First degree to BSc/MSc or BEng/MEng level in Mechanical Engineering , Chemical Engineering , Physics or Electrical / Electronic engineering or similar

• Good theoretical understanding and practical experience of electronics , electrical diagrams etc.

• Good theoretical and practical understanding of metrology and sensor technology such as thermocouples , flow controllers , pressure transducers etc

• Experience of LabView and VisualBasic

• Good understanding of engineering fundamentals particularly within heat Transfer /

Thermodynamics and fluid dynamics

• Good theoretical understanding and practical experience of analytical and statistical software tools ( MATLAB etc ).

• Quick learner, passionate, "can-do" attitude

• Methodical , attention to detail

• Able team worker ( good communication skills , open-minded, collaborative etc ).