Test Development Engineer

at  Raytheon

POSITION ROLE TYPE:

Unspecified
Role Test Development Engineer
Location - Glenrothes / Livingston, Scotland
Contract - Permanent
Hours - Fulltime 37 hrs
As a leading defence and aerospace company operating across the United Kingdom, Raytheon UK helps to solve our customers’ toughest challenges. We are a major supplier to the UK government and customers around the globe, providing defence solutions across all domains: land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. We also provide digital and training transformation solutions to commercial and military customers.

PRIMARY PURPOSE OF THIS POSITION

Responsible for the design, manufacture, verification and validation, along with through life technical support of board level, sub-system and system level test equipment.

MAIN DUTIES

• Design of functional test equipment
• To take responsibility for the design and overall quality of the test equipment and provide leadership and guidance for junior engineers.
• Documentation of design specifications and implementation details. Take part in design reviews. Upholding of design standards and methodologies.
• Realisation of complex system requirements to provide robust and reliable test hardware solutions.
• Responsibility for the complete implementation of detailed technical items and an understanding/appreciation of system level items.
• Collaboration with other team members (including both hardware and software engineers) to agree system designs, interfaces and protocols etc.
• Development of appropriate test hardware, test software and procedures, both informal and formal, to prove the correct operation of hardware.
• Provide support to manufacturing answering product queries & resolving technical issues.
• Provide support for the test hardware and manage obsolescence throughout its lifecycle.
• Monitoring and reporting of progress of test development to immediate supervisor and development team.
• Proactively support company compliance to Health and Safety legislation through adherence to company polices, processes and practices.
• Ensure that all business activity is conducted in line with company values, policies and ethics codes of conduct.
• Undertake any other activity as reasonably requested by management
• Application of IPDS Processes
• Accountable for engineering specific risks and opportunities.
• Contributor at Gate/Design reviews
• Contribute to section/business area resource planning with a working understanding of Microsoft Project tools.
• Ability to identify and engage the appropriate SME’s to support the Test Development Engineering activities.
• Contributor/Approver for standard/tailored test development process including IPDS gates and content