Test & Development Engineer (Permanent)

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Development Test Engineer (Contract or Perm) - Fareham Introduction
Saab UK is a British company that is part of Saab Group's global high-technology operations. Saab offers world-leading solutions and services in defence, aviation, space and civil security. In the UK we bring together the best of Swedish and British innovation and engineering to provide our customers with products and solutions that push boundaries for what is considered technically possible. Our mission is to help our customers to keep people and society safe.

Our Saab UK business is going through a period of rapid growth, this means that we can offer a wide range of opportunities for personal fulfilment and career growth. Across the country we have seven principle sites which focus on software engineering, underwater robotics, training services and radars. Technologically we are leaders in many areas, and we reinvest a high proportion of our earnings in internal research and development. Saab is a company with opportunities, a company where we see diversity as an asset and where you have both considerable responsibility as well as good opportunities for advancing in your career. This is a new product testing role within the company. With a wide ranging remit to manage and execute the full lifecycle of test engineering, from definition of test-cases through development of test tools to the execution of testing and management of facilities. As such it will suit someone with a broad spread of engineering knowledge, imagination and drive. We are offering this role as a full time permanent role, or as a contract role depending on your preference.

Plan, design and communicate test cases which validate requirements across a broad spread of electro-mechanical systems for both the development and production lifecycle phases.
Design test jigs, harnesses and software to allow execution of test cases including, where appropriate, automation.
Implement data processing/filtering software in a variety of packages to extract relevant results
Manage the internal test facilities (test tanks, ovens, pools, lifting equipment)
Liaise with external test facilities (EMC, vibration, pools, etc)
Fault finding and failure analysis
HNC or Degree in a relevant engineering discipline
Min 3 years in a test focussed role, or within test equipment development
Proven experience in data capture and analysis
Proven experience working on multi-disciplinary systems (electrical, mechanical, software)
Experience working within an engineering NPI environment
Experience of National Instruments test software platforms, able to create test software test functions within the National Instruments environment
Experience with control of National Instruments hardware and propriety test equipment as in control , read / write, obtain data, compute, data management
Hands on with electronic circuit construction / testing / diagnostics
Innovative and creative mindset with sound engineering principles
Create high quality test reports
Data capture - logging

Experience in the offshore and/or subsea industry
Experience working within a Production Test facility
Knowledge / experience in the creation of test executives within NI LabView / TestStand Software
Software programming / scripts (Python, C, C#, C++, VB, etc)
Specification / build / commissioning / Support of test equipment
Understanding of Mechanical principles, and working knowledge of applications
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Location:
Fareham, Hampshire
Job Type:
PartTime

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