Production Test Engineer

Location Portsmouth
Job Type Contract
Salary £39 - £43 per hour
Reference 2800198_1662454892
Duration 12 months

Job Summary

  • Achieve the production plan by certifying conformance of equipment by quality control production electrical testing in accordance with defined test procedures and company quality requirements.
  • Working on the digital product line, with experience of dealing with the challenges that come from working with new test software and development FPGA code.
  • Support business and departmental improvement initiatives.
  • Support new product introduction and development.
  • Feed into SQCDP process to monitor performance and drive improvements.

Internal Relationships

Team Leader

  • Escalate occurrences that prevent achievement of the production plan, including quality, cost and schedule impacts.
  • Report anomalous or out of limits results.
  • Attend training as directed by team leader in conjunction with training coordinator.
  • Agree planned periods of holiday and absence.

Support Engineering

  • Escalate deviations from work instructions, routings and any other production impacts to the production support team in the absences of the team leader.

External Relationships

  • Represent team leader and department at impact reviews and meetings as directed.
  • Attend training and development courses as directed by team leader and training coordinator.

Job Profile

Key Activities

  • Maintain accurate quality control test results and test event logs.
  • Provide first line fault analysis and raise mandatory non-conformance reports for non-compliant or anomalous tests.
  • Support introduction of new test methods.
  • Understand use and limitations of relevant test equipment.
  • Support and contribute to the introduction of production improvement and efficiency initiatives.
  • Have an awareness of business and departmental cost and schedule requirements.
  • Adhere to company and departmental Health and Safety and COSHH (Control of Substances Hazardous to Health) processes and procedures.
  • Conform to company and departmental policies and procedures.

Skills/Experience Required

Essential -

  • Experience of test of electronic, analogue, digital and RF sub-systems up to 10 GHz. Including amplifiers, frequency up/down converters, complex RF and digital signal processing.
  • Competent in the use of all types of propriety analogue and RF test equipment including vector and pulse network analysers.
  • Experience in Test Production.

Desirable -

  • Quality control of test results and documentation; Initial fault diagnosis and raising of non-conformance reports.
  • Flexible approach to working methods and patterns. Shift working will be required and overtime likely available over the weekend.
  • Pro-active in maintaining a safe working environment and a clear commitment to health and safety in the workplace.
  • Willingness to accept change and actively support continuous improvement, Wiling to develop skills as required in support of production (assembly, test, inspection and support) and implements these flexibly.
  • Working on space flight processors for satellite manufacture this is working in a high spec cleanroom environment on world leading product.

Education & Training

Desirable -

  • Minimum Requirement: HNC or equivalent qualification in electronic discipline plus at least 1 to 2 years relevant experience.
  • Desirable Requirement: HND in Electronics/physics and/or 5 years relevant experience.

Working Pattern

Monday to Friday - fortnightly rotating double day shifts - expectation of working extra hours mid-week & weekends

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