Test Engineer - AIT

Test Engineer

Permanent

Portsmouth - 5 days on site

£35,000 - £45,000

Job Summary

Supporting Earth, Navigation and Science missions and Military Telecom projects, this team prepare and perform electrical integration of the spacecraft units, subsystem and system spacecraft functional tests, during both ambient and environmental test campaigns. This role sits within Satellite Assembly Integration and Test team based at Portsmouth.

Responsibilities

• Work within the Satellite Assembly Integration and Test team at Portsmouth supporting the design, manufacture and commissioning of test systems.
• Contribute to the team for the electrical and functional test of the full spacecraft including environmental test and launch campaigns, for Earth Observation and Navigation, Science and Military Telecoms missions.
• Interpreting test specifications, preparing and scripting test solutions as well as debugging and formally executing these tests.
• Performing of electrical and functional testing of complex spacecraft systems
• Working hands -on with a mix of office, lab and clean-room based activities.
• Overseeing procurement and day to day support of the electrical test racks used during spacecraft build and test

Qualifications / Experience

• Competent in writing and debugging test sequences, preparing test procedures and reports and supporting test reviews.
• Good documentation and communication skills are essential, as is the ability to use a wide variety of general purpose lab test equipment.
• Have good theoretical and or practical knowledge of one or more spacecraft subsystems (Power, RF Comms, AOCS, DHS, Scientific Instruments, and System FDIR etc.)
• Experience and knowledge in any of the following would also be beneficial; interfaces such as Mil-1553, SpaceWire, CAN bus, RS232/422; simulation environments; programming and scripting languages such as C, Java, Python, UDMS, TCL and bash scripting
• Eligibility to gain UK SC Security Clearance

Personal Attributes / Skills

• Proactive.
• IT literate and proficient in MS Office package.
• Self-motivated.
• Good communication skills.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Good time management.
• Customer focused.
• Excellent organisation skills