Job Description

Principal Manufacturing Test Engineer
Salary: Circa 50,000 Plus Paid Overtime
Location: Stevenage - 4/5 Days a Week On-Site
Shape how this established defence company that produces military weapons systems undertakes production testing. You will be rewarded with bonuses, annual salary reviews, paid overtime and so forth.
As a Principal Manufacturing Test Engineer, you will support test system introduction and test and diagnostics of electrical/electronic weapon systems and sub-assemblies.
About the role:

• Provide test engineering support across the whole lifecycle from design to production through to operations.
• Ensure that appropriate configuration control of equipment and facilities are in place prior to use, including generating supporting test specifications and operator instructions.
• Support testing of electrical/electronic weapon systems, sub-assemblies and circuit cards, with diagnosis of development test failures down to circuit card and potentially component level, including identification of proposed remedial and corrective actions.
• Work closely with multidisciplinary teams, including mentoring junior test engineers.

Key requirements:

• Minimum HNC level of qualification or equivalent in a relevant subject
• Significant experience in digital, analogue and RF electronics manufacture and test in a defence organisation or similar highly regulated manufacturing environment
• Understanding of electrical/electronic test principles and test equipment, as well as systems-level functional testing
• Experience across the product development lifecycle in electronics manufacturing
• Significant experience of using both manual and automated test equipment
• Good verbal and written communication skills, including generating technical requirements

Due to the nature of work undertaken at our client's site, incumbents of these positions are required to meet special nationality rules and therefore these vacancies are only open to sole British Citizens. Applicants who meet this criterion will also be required to undergo security clearance vetting, if not already security cleared to a minimum SC level.
Electus Recruitment Solutions provides specialist engineering and technical recruitment solutions to a number of high technology industries. We thank you for your interest in this vacancy. If you don't hear from us within 7 working days, please presume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.
This is a permanent position.

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