Production Test Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England; full time on site

Salary: £24.46–£27.52 per hour PAYE or £32–£36 per hour Umbrella

Company

hirify.global is recruiting for a contract role in aerospace manufacturing and defence.

What you will do

• Provide test engineering support from design and development through Production Readiness Review and release to operations.
• Introduce test facilities and maintain configuration control of equipment and facilities.
• Generate test specifications, operator instructions and technical reports.
• Test electrical and electronic sub-assemblies and circuit cards, diagnosing production test failures to component level.
• Work with operations, design teams and stakeholders to resolve technical challenges and compile initial process flows.
• Support Process FMEA, test mitigations, test fixture design, and functional and ESS testing of initial prototypes.

Requirements

• Minimum Level 4 qualification in engineering, preferably electrical, electronic, aerospace or mechanical engineering, physics or maths.
• The qualification must include electronic principles, digital or analogue, or electrical principles modules.
• Experience in test engineering in a manufacturing or industrial environment.
• Good understanding of digital and analogue electronic measurement and test principles, including fault diagnosis techniques.
• Awareness of electrical and electronic subsystem and system design, integration and test principles.
• Experience generating test specifications, operator instructions and technical reports.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of RF and microwave technology at subsystem level.
• Experience operating manual and automated test equipment in an electronics manufacturing environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time onsite work in Stevenage.
• Initial 12-month contract with possible extension.
• ASAP start.
• Interview conducted face to face onsite.
• PAYE or Umbrella engagement options.

Hiring process

• Apply through the hirify.global application route.
• Attend a face-to-face interview onsite.