Development Test Engineer
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We are excited to announce a new permanent opportunity for a Development Test Engineer located in Severn Beach, Bristol. In this role, you will play a critical part in supporting the Product Development team by investigating intricate product challenges, validating innovative design solutions, and enhancing our products and processes through thorough testing and development.
Key Responsibilities:
Product Engineering Issues on Released Platforms: Provide technical assistance and support to ensure:
- Selective engineering problems relating to design and or issues identified by customers are investigated in a thorough manner.
- Identification of root causes. Follow the PT problem solving methodology or 8D RCA investigation tools where necessary.
- Collation of evidence and reporting is concise and traceable.
- Use appropriate and or initiate new build documentation to support the assembly and test plans.
- Capable of interrogating BOM’s, ECO’s and DP’s effectively.
Product Improvements and Product Correction Validation: Provide technical assistance and support on product improvements and product corrections being implemented to ensure:
- From information provided by the design team, implement improvements to current released products including, control systems, plumbing, pneumatics and mechanical elements.
- Test documentation is developed to ensure product improvements are fully tested to ensure performance is appropriate and will meet customer expectations.
- Provide expert advice and guidance to production engineering and test department following any product improvement validation activities or outcomes from the product development team.
- Support corrective action requests, typically FRN (fault reports) and DP’s Deviation permits.
- Provide feedback to the design team as to the suitability and robustness of solutions, with particular attention to DFM, DFA and DFS is required.
- Products are manufactured and tested to the standards as set out in our documentation.
- Support the Manufacturing engineering team to keep documentation (SOP, Instructions) up to date.
Quality – Ensure quality is at the forefront of all your activities and ensure;
- Monitor, report and optimise product quality
- Upon assignment, Quality Notifications and customer feedback/faults on commissioning relating to product improvements, react in a timely and efficient manner.
Education / Qualifications:
HND or higher (Mechanical, Electrical & Electronic disciplines).
Professional Skills/ Abilities:
- Substantial experience in electro-mechanical systems production engineering environment - preferably small batch, high technology system integration, ideally with machining/fabs.
- Experience in a fast-paced operations environment.
- Commercial awareness.
- Knowledge of Design validation methodologies, such as Design for Manufacture, Design for Assembly and Design for Service.
- Problem-solving skills.
- Recent and practical experience of mechanical and electrical assembly.