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 ).