Electronics Test Engineer

Electronic Test Engineer - 12 month fixed term contract - £32k

We are looking to recruit a Electronic Test Engineer Engineer to join the team on a permanent contract, reporting to the Manufacturing Supervisor. As Technician Engineer you will test, diagnose, and repair our traffic communication product portfolio consisting of radios and supporting equipment.

What you will do:

• Test, diagnose and repair electro-mechanical equipment utilizing an array of test equipment including oscilloscopes, radio test sets and signal analysers
• Test, diagnose and repair PCBA's down to component level in accordance with IPC level 2 and 3
• Safety test customer and production equipment
• Produce test and repair customer documentation
• Enter symptom, fault diagnosis and fix onto appropriate IT systems and fault databases
• Monitor job costs (labour and materials) to ensure repairs remain under the quoted target and liaise with customer support department in the case of projected cost over-runs
• Monitor and implement CSD actions and change notices to upgrade customer equipment as required
• Recognise repeat failures within repairs and highlight trends to development engineering and supervision
• Provide technical feedback to the development engineering department relating to fault root cause analysis
• Ensure all equipment is within calibration and appropriate safety certifications (PAT) prior to use
• Maintain the job status on our IT systems including T-Card and ERP
• Accurately record productive and non-productive hours on our ERP system
• Provide updates to Customer Services Department on customers' equipment repair status, & repair costing
• Identify inefficiencies within test programs and suggest changes/improvements to production engineering
• Provide training & support to production operators, technicians & technician engineers

Requirements

What we are looking for:

• A BTEC National Certificate/Diploma or HNC
• Interest in electro-mechanical componentry and products
• Thorough knowledge of analogue and digital RF principles
• Experience of fault finding on electronic units in a manufacturing environment, using appropriate test equipment and circuit diagrams.
• Repair and rework hand soldering experience
• The ability to use own initiative
• Good communication skills
• Confident to ask questions
• Quick learner
• Enjoy hands on and practical work