Test Technician / Development Engineer - Hydraulic
- Recruiter
- Bluetownonline Ltd
- Location
- Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England
- Salary
- £22000 - £23000 per annum
- Posted
- 01 Feb 2017
- Closes
- 01 Mar 2017
- Ref
- PLRA-29
- Contact
- Alanna Doyle
- Sectors
- Engineering, Design
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Title: Test & Development Technician
Location: Welwyn Garden City
Salary: £22k to £23k
The company is a global leading manufacturer for hydraulic lifting, loading and handling solutions. Your role will be to oversee the creation of Tail Lift design solutions against agreed technical specifications for the company's projects, ensuring conformity to industry, National, International and Company standards and compliance with European Directives and Regulations.
The company is looking to recruit a Test & Development Technicians to Support test & development solutions against agreed technical specifications, ensuring conformity to Industry, National, International and Company standards and compliance with European Directives and Regulations.
Job Role:
- Fulfil the daily requirements of the business and satisfy customer demands through supporting and contributing to effective test & development solutions.
- Managing multiple test & development projects in conjunction with engineers and key stakeholders within the business and communicating test results effectively.
- Fulfil the requirement of the test & development function within the business, ensuring targets and deadlines are achieved.
- Support the Engineering and Production team on design projects, contributing to effective design solutions as required.
- Ensuring a professional, quality approach to all tasks and right first time attitude at all times.
- Flexibility to adapt and overcome challenges to always ensure a positive long term solution is provided.
Key Responsibilities:
Contribute to test & development design solutions against agreed technical specifications for assigned projects.
- Contribute to multiple projects including NMI, cost reduction, product improvement and bespoke requirements, ensuring attention is paid to:
- Contributing to ensure the testing and development of designs conform to Industry, National, International and Company standards and comply to European directives and regulations (CE Marking.)
- Create all supporting testing and development documents and records for the project(s).
- Liaise with Engineers, Customers and Sales staff to ensure that customer requirements are understood and correctly interpreted.
- Liaise with vehicle manufacture/supplier to ensure suitable installation and support on product fitments - as required.
- Liaison with internal/external suppliers for parts and fabrications on the development, of new components and products - as required.
- Safety Is Paramount - Ensure all testing and development tasks are carried out in a safe manner and fully comply with 'Health and Safety' regulations.
- Ensure all equipment used is safe and calibrated.
- Promote the development and implementation of tooling & machinery solutions to support testing and development requirements within the department.
- In addition, promote the development of innovative technological solutions to design issues, advancing the current T&D testing facility, processes and procedures.
- Completion of full test reports and maintenance of a digital auditable file system.
- Budget
- Resources
- Cost targets
- Timescales
- Design review dates
- Quality
Please click the APPLY button to send your CV and Cover Letter for this role.
Candidates with experience of; Test Technician, Development Engineer, Hydraulic Engineer, Lifting Engineer, T&D Test Engineer, Testing Engineer will also be considered for this role.