Lead Test Engineer
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About the Role
Saab UK is hiring a Lead Test Engineer to join their Fareham campus, focusing on engineering test solutions for electro-mechanical products. The role involves leading test engineering, managing test facilities, and developing test cases and automation.
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Responsibilities
- Lead Test Engineer within the department, guide and support general Test Engineers
- Line manager for Test Engineering group, manage workload within the team and external 3rd parties
- Analyse Master/Systems/Sub System requirements and conformance specifications to derive test requirements
- Plan, design and communicate test cases which verify and validate requirements across electro mechanical systems
- Responsible for closure of workload packages, management of formal Test Reports and evidence based materials
- Define the design of test jigs, harnesses and software to allow execution of test cases including automation
- Implement data processing/filtering software to extract relevant results into databases/analysis software packages
- Manage internal test facilities (test tanks, ovens, pools, lifting equipment)
- Liaise with external test facilities (EMC, vibration, pools, etc.)
- Fault finding and failure analysis
- Documentation and presentation of results and findings
Requirements
- HNC or Degree in a relevant engineering discipline
- Competent in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Previous experience in personnel supervision/management
- Ability to work unsupervised to tight timescales
- Working knowledge of Mechanical Engineering principles
- Working knowledge of Software principles in relation to products embedded and associated tool chains
- Competent and able to use Microsoft Office to a high level
- Experienced and high level competence with National Instruments LabView and TestStand software tool chains within a test and measurement environment
- Experienced with creating/modifying software scripts/programs e.g. Python, Visual Basic, C, C++, etc.
- 3 years in a test focused role, or within test equipment development
- Proven experience in data capture and analysis
- Expert in the Verification & Validation processes and associated tools and techniques
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Introduction
- Saab UK is part of Scandinavia’s largest defence company, bringing together Swedish and British innovation.
- Saab offers world leading solutions in defence, aviation, space, and civil security.
- We employ over 600 people across eight sites in the UK, specialising in software engineering, underwater robotics, radars, AI, and armed forces training.
What You Will Be Part Of
- Saab is a leading defence and security company with an enduring purpose to help nations keep their people and society safe.
- Empowered by 28,000 talented people, Saab constantly pushes the boundaries of technology.
The Role
- Join us in creating the most innovative robotic technology for the harshest environment in the deepest oceans.
- This is a new role onsite at our Fareham Campus.
- Role to engineer test solutions for electro mechanical products to ensure systems are thoroughly exercised to satisfy product requirements.
- Manage and execute the full lifecycle of test engineering, from definition of test cases through development of test tools to execution of testing.
Key accountabilities and responsibilities
- Lead Test Engineer within the department, to be the guide and support resource for the general Test Engineers
- Line manager for Test Engineering group – manage out workload within the Test Engineering team and external 3rd parties as required
- Analyse Master / Systems / Sub System requirements and conformance specifications to derive test requirements
- Plan, design and communicate test cases which verify and validate requirements across a broad spread of electro mechanical systems for both development and production lifecycle phases
- Responsible for closure of workload packages derived from requirements analysis, management of formal Test Reports and other evidence based materials across the Test Engineering team
- Define the design of 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 into databases / analysis software packages
- 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
- Documentation and presentation of results and findings
Essential Skills
- HNC or Degree in a relevant engineering discipline
- Competent in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Previous experience in personnel supervision / management, to coach and mentor staff and manage their workload
- Ability to work unsupervised to tight timescales
- Working knowledge of Mechanical Engineering principles
- Working knowledge of Software principles in relation to products embedded and associated tool chains
- Competent and able to use Microsoft Office to a high level
- Experienced and high level competence with National Instruments LabView and TestStand software tool chains within a test and measurement environment
- Experienced with creating / modifying software scripts / programs e.g. Python, Visual Basic, C, C++, etc.
- 3 years in a test focused role, or within test equipment development
- Proven experience in data capture and analysis
- Expert in the Verification & Validation processes and associated tools and techniques
Desirable
- Degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Formal qualification in Mechanical Engineering and/or Software
- National Instruments certified developer
- Experienced with working with system engineering / project management tools – EA / DOORS / etc.
- Experience in the offshore and/or subsea industry
- Knowledge of product certification, best practice and industry standards
- Knowledge of compliance standards and certification (CE / DNV)
- Expert / advanced user of Microsoft Excel
- Experience with data archiving / controlled repositories management
- Previous experience in a customer facing role
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