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Connecting Talent to opportunity

Test Engineer

Expired

Job Description:

Role: Test Engineer

Salary: £31,500 - £40,000 DOE

Term: Permanent

Location: Oxford, UK

 

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced mechanical Test Engineer to join a rapidly growing, ambitious space company concerned with the engineering and manufacture of battery cells. Their ambitions to succeed need to be matched by a like-minded Test Engineer, who is ready to take their career to new heights.

This is a very technical role that involved a hands-on approach to testing HV battery systems. The candidate for this Test Engineer role needs to have previous experience working within a fast-paced environment with a focus on safety and accuracy.

 

Responsibilities of the Test Engineer

  • Acting as the key interface for the test team across all other areas of the business
  • Providing proficient definition, writing of, review and completion of all test documentation and recording all activities and data from designated tests correctly and on time
  • Managing maintenance and calibration of test equipment, including the definition of processes
  • Setting up, operating and maintaining of thermal vacuum chambers
  • Performing of mechanical testing of products including vibrational, shock, MoI, CoG and active and passive magnetic moment testing in external test houses
  • Leading and control root cause analysis using Ishikawa and 8D methodologies
  • Ensuring H&S of everyone within their area of responsibility, including leading/managing risk assessments, safety protocol adherence, and ensuring relevant PPE adherence
  • Communicating with stakeholders at all level
  • Acting as the key interface for the test team across all other areas of the business
  • Providing proficient definition, writing of, review and completion of all test documentation and recording all activities and data from designated tests correctly and on time

 

About you:

  • You have an Engineering related university degree
  • You have a hands-on approach to engineering
  • You have a minimum of 3 years of experience in a relevant field, preferably as a Test Engineer
  • You have strong experience in battery test methodologies
  • You have a good understanding of battery test equipment (Maccor test rigs, vibration table, thermal vacuum chamber)
  • You have good knowledge and experience of general electrical test techniques
  • You are a business-minded and process driven individual

 

Benefits:

What’s in it for you?

  • 25 days of holiday + 8 bank holidays
  • 5 day working week
  • Cycle-to-work scheme
  • Life Assurance 4x salary
  • Pension contributions – Contributions are matched
  • Professional accreditation support
  • This company will invest in you and help you develop

 

Please note that this role does not offer VISA sponsorship.

If you like the look of this Test Engineer role, but you’d like a chat before you hit that apply button, please contact Kamil Szpotkowski at Orion Electrotech (Reading).