Manufacturing Test Development Engineer

This team primarily supports the UK R&D headquarters and other worldwide R&D groups. They outsources all manufacturing to Contract Manufacturing Partners and are seeking a highly motivated individual for an additional Test Development Engineer (TDE) role.

The TDE role provides test engineering expertise for new and existing products or group of products. It requires a strong demonstration of core engineering skills, design concepts / principles and diagnostic capabilities.

Primary responsibilities include:

• Develop test programs and scripts for contract manufacturers for new (NPI) and existing products.
• Specifying the test equipment required and supervising its installation and training at the contact manufacturing site.
• Resolve product failure issues during manufacturing processes and RMA service centre.
• Engaging with the R&D teams to ensure that Design for Test (DFT) and Design for Manufacture (DFM) are incorporated into the product development process
• Validate new software released on existing products, to ensure that it does not cause issue with the manufacturing tests that are in place.
• Design the test plan for product or groups of products.

Mandatory skills and experience

• A 2i or 1st class Honours Degree (MSc preferred) in Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Manufacturing, Computer Science or related subject. The degree must have a significant hardware bias and will be supported by A or B grade A levels.
• Experience developing/writing tests for complex electronic hardware (ideally network or telecom products)
• Scripting language or object orientated language skills (they use Ruby and may adopt C++)
• Excellent problem solving and communication skills.
• Continuous Manufacturing Quality Improvement.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a leading technology provider offering excellent career progression opportunities. Coupled with this they are offering an excellent salary and benefits package - please contact me for further information.

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