Description
Introduction
Saab UK is a British company that is part of Saab Group’s global high-technology operations. Saab offers world-leading solutions and services in defence, aviation, space and civil security. In the UK we bring together the best of Swedish and British innovation and engineering to provide our customers with products and solutions that push boundaries for what is considered technically possible. Our mission is to help our customers to keep people and society safe.
Our Saab UK business is going through a period of rapid growth, this means that we can offer a wide range of opportunities for personal fulfilment and career growth. As part of the global entity Saab AB, Saab UK Ltd combines the innovative spirit of a start-up with the resources and expertise of a larger corporation. Across the country we have seven principle sites which focus on software engineering, underwater robotics, training services and radars. Globally we number over 22,000 employees and have operations on all continents. Technologically we are leaders in many areas, and we reinvest a high proportion of our earnings in internal research and development. We collaborate with colleagues around the world who all share our challenge – to make the world a safer place.
Saab is a company with opportunities, a company where we see diversity as an asset and where you have both considerable responsibility as well as good opportunities for advancing in your career. Additionally, Saab is a company that respects each person’s needs for a rewarding life beyond work.
Role Purpose
This is a new product testing role within the company. With a wide ranging remit to manage and execute the full lifecycle of test engineering, from definition of test-cases through development of test tools to the execution of testing and management of facilities. As such it will suit someone with a broad spread of engineering knowledge, imagination and drive.
Key Accountabilities And Responsibilities
- Analyse conformance specifications to derive test requirements
- Plan, design and communicate test cases which validate requirements across a broad spread of electro-mechanical systems for both the development and production lifecycle phases
- Design test jigs, harnesses and software to allow execution of test cases including, where appropriate, automation
- Implement data processing/filtering software in a variety of packages to extract relevant results
- Manage the internal test facilities (test tanks, ovens, pools, lifting equipment)
- Liaise with external test facilities (EMC vibration pools etc)
- Execute tests in a clear safe controlled manner
- Fault finding failure analysis
- Documentation presentation results findings
Essential Skills
- HNC or Degree in relevant engineering discipline
- Min 3 years in test focussed role or within test equipment development
- Proven experience data capture analysis
- Proven experience working multi-disciplinary systems (electrical mechanical software)
- Experience working within an engineering NPI environment
- Excellent knowledge test equipment platforms
- Excellent communicator: both written verbal
- Exposure NPI design phases – working Design / Systems requirements
- Able generate cases from requirements verify / validate designs
- Experience National Instruments platforms able create functions within environment
- Experience control hardware propriety equipment control read/write obtain compute management
- Hands on electronic circuit construction/testing/diagnostics
- Innovative creative mindset sound principles
- Ability work unsupervised tight timescales
- Knowledge product certification best-practice industry standards
- Enthusiasm drive personality!
- Create high quality reports
- Data capture logging
Desirable Skills
– Experience offshore subsea industry
– Experience working Production Test facility
– Knowledge/experience creation executives NI LabView/TestStand Software
– Software programming/scripts (Python C C# C++ VB etc.)
– Specification/build/commissioning/Support equipment
– Understanding Mechanical principles working knowledge applications
– Knowledge compliance standards certification (CE/DNV)
– Previous experience customer-facing role