Environmental Test Engineer

Environmental Test Engineer - Aerospace - Chelmsford

Our client has an enviable reputation as a world-leading technology business, developing cutting-edge products for health care, scientific, and satellite/space industries.
The Environmental Engineering team performs mechanical tests, including vibration, mechanical shock, structural analysis, packaging assessment, and climatic tests, including thermal, humidity, altitude, and salt spray, on a multitude of products.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for someone with an understanding of product testing in a laboratory or industrial environment to join this friendly team as an environmental engineer. Applications are welcome from candidates with compliance/quality engineering or environmental engineering backgrounds. The role could be appointed with an experienced engineer, but applications are also welcome from recent graduates with relevant academic experience rather than job experience. Similarly, applications would be considered from technicians looking to move into a QA Engineer role. 

Duties will include:

• Ensure compliance with health and safety requirements.
• Ensure compliance of processes and best practices to deliver successful engineering governance and gate reviews.
• Oversee & be responsible for environmental engineering, ensuring the correct execution to relevant standards (e.g MIL-STD, DEF-STD, BS-EN)
• Support of the design and manufacture of jigs for mechanical and thermal testing.
• Capture, analysis, reporting, and presentation of test data.
• Review test plans to ensure requirements align to standards.
• Ensuring equipment calibration
• Liaison with internal & external customers.
• Attend meetings to represent the work carried out by the Environmental Engineering group.
• Providing support and feedback to the design team after performing surveys of the mechanical interface jigs.

Salary and Benefits:

• Salary depending on previous experience
• Training and access to the “Internal University”
• Pensions and Life Assurance
• Variable Pay options including: Employee bonuses, Sales Incentive Plans and Recognition Schemes
• Discount arrangements on a wide range of goods, hospitality providers, personal electronics and services
• Excellent career mobility with national and international opportunities
• Occupational health provisions and medical benefits
• Employee assistance and well-being support
• Flexible working options—this role is predominantly onsite but offer flexibility of start and finish times around core hours of 9am to 3pm

 
Key Words – Test Engineer, QA Engineer, Compliance Engineer, Laboratory, Quality Assurance, Verification, Validation