Product Engineer

This is a 9 months Fixed Term Contract.

The job of the Product engineer is to develop, test and analyse product integration solutions to ensure high quality products are developed and manufactured in line with the operations strategy for the introduction to manufacturing of new products, materials, and processes.

The applicant requires a strong test background and must be competent in fault finding complex integration systems and subsystems. A methodical and structure approach to problem solving is required. An ideal applicant will have experience in requirements verification, test design, process development and transfer into manufacturing.

Key Responsibilities

• Development of robust test solutions for verification and validation of product performance to meet specified requirements.
• Assist new product developments from design to manufacture, supporting the transfer to manufacturing of the assembly and test processes for switches
• Collaborating with engineers from a multi-disciplinary team to create tools to improve test coverage and team efficiency.
• Create test equipment to support verification testing and production testing, including Electro-optical testing of new systems, analysis of results, and report writing
• Create hardware and software solutions to deliver test solutions to a given budget and timescale.
• Definition of procedures and test tools for de-skilling of complex processes
• Create test requirements for testing new designs going into volume manufacture.
• Support the evaluation and introduction to manufacturing of cost savings, and improvements to supply chain security, including standardization
• Create procurement specifications for third party companies to create ATE, bed of nail fixtures and other bespoke test platforms.

About you

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering subject or physics.
• 3 - 5 years industry experience
• Able to communicate effectively, verbally and by email, with multi-disciplined engineers and managers.
• Organised, independent, and able to keep track of multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Energy, enthusiasm, and an ability to get work done
• Commitment to quality and on-time delivery
• Able to travel to volume manufacturing sites when required

Desirable Skills & Experience

• Software test development (python, LabView)
• Hardware testing and debug experience
• Able to understand assembly and test methods and the interactions between components, processes, software and product quality and reliability.