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Location

Peterlee, County Durham | United Kingdom

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Job description

Job Title: Electronics Development Test Engineer
Department: Electronics Engineering
Reporting to: Electronics Engineering Manager
Responsible for: This role has no direct reports
Band: C

Scope of the Role

Working within the Engineering team and supporting the Senior Electronics Test Engineer with new product testing development for rechargeable battery solutions. We’re looking for a candidate with a creative and innovate mindset, to design and develop new custom automated test equipment, assist with the maintenance of existing equipment, to work with test technicians and collaborate with other departments in NPI and PFMEA processes for new products.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

The below list is not exhaustive, but the main duties and responsibilities will be:

• Design and execution of test plans for new products in development.
• Development of new test equipment for battery pack manufacture
• Maintenance and improvement of existing test equipment and fixtures
• Verification/Validation of test equipment and fixtures
• Continuous training of Electronics Technicians
• Support production with troubleshooting, technical questions and advice
• Version control of compiled firmware (hex files) and assistance with programming fixtures
• Inform product development teams on testing aspects of new product introduction (NPI) process
• PFMEA – involvement in process failure modes effects analysis
• Develop test specification in line with customer requirements and SPQP
• Preparing test reports
• Failure mode analysis and prevention
• Record keeping in line with quality and company procedures
• Test reports for external customers

Knowledge, Skills, and Behaviours

The postholder will possess a range of the following knowledge, skills, and behaviours:

• BEng Electrical and Electronic Engineering or equivalent
• Experience in a similar role
• Programming experience, strong LabVIEW programming and knowledge of C#, Arduino platforms.
• Use of SQL databases
• Good written and oral communication skills
• Strong fault finding/troubleshooting skills – on test equipment and on products
• Organised, motivated and enthusiastic
• Keeps priorities under review, plans and works flexibly to cope with change in circumstances and demands

Core Soft Skills

The postholder will be required to demonstrate the following key core soft skills for their band:

Important Notice to Recruitment Agencies

Alexander Battery Technologies (ABT) is committed to sourcing candidates directly and, as such it does not accept speculative CVs from agencies.

ABT only pays agency fees where it has a signed agreement in place and an agency has been instructed by a member of ABT’s HR Department.

All speculative CVs shall be considered a ‘gift’ to ABT.

ABT does not pay agency fees of any nature where speculative and/or unsolicited CVs are submitted to either ABT or any of its employees.

ABT reserve the right to subsequently contact the candidate to whom any speculative CV relates, initiates discussions and/or appoints that candidate to a position (whether directly or through another agency) without payment of any agency fee whatsoever.

Submission of any unsolicited CV’s and/or proposals to ABT by an agency will be deemed evidence of full unlimited acceptance of this agency policy to the exclusion of any terms or conditions which may be put forward by that agency at any time.

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