Fuels & LG Test Engineer

On behalf of our client, we are seeking a Fuels & LG Test Engineer to join on an initial 6-month contract. As the Fuels & LG Test Engineer, you will report to the Head of Fuels & Landing Gear Test and you will prepare, conduct, and analyse tests involving integrated Aircraft systems.

Role: Fuels & LG Test Engineer
Pay: Up to £60 per hour via Umbrella
Hours: Monday and Friday, 35 hours per week
Contract: 6-month contract – Possibility for extension
Location: Filton – mainly onsite
IR35 Status: Inside
SC Clearance: BPSS

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Design Office, Flight Test & Programme to determine and capture Test campaign requirements. This will involve understanding the System elements that respond to the requirements to be tested, helping design test steps to both confirm conformance to requirements and discover misbehaviours
• Collaborate with other areas of the test organisation to prepare Instrumentation, acquire results, and write Test Results Analyses in response to Test Requests. This will involve agreeing measurement chains (Instrument type, installation, and acquisition parameters), conducting tests, analysing system performance including interactions with other systems/physical events and presenting findings in a clear, concise manner backed up with demonstrations in plotted data
• This role is highly connected with Test Means and is therefore at its heart an On-Site activity where the benefits of collaboration with other Test Engineers can be exploited to the full.

Skill Set

Essential

• Hydraulics Systems Testing and/or Mechanical Systems Testing and/or Computer based Systems Testing
• Analysis of System performance, test reporting and investigations
• Experience of definition of Instrumentation systems
• Experience of supporting and/or doing Hydromechanical Systems Configuration
• Familiarity with Logical Systems (AND, NAND, OR, NOR etc, SCADE (Safety Critical Application Development Environment))
• Experience of System Integrity (Robustness to failure, Reconfiguration, FMEA, Monitors, Alerts)
• An appetite for developing relationships to collaborate

Desirable

• Experience of systems testing techniques
• Awareness of safe ways of working in a Hydromechanical Testing Facility
• Experience in Analysing Computer based systems behaviours (Python, C++, Matlab, Labview, Databases)

If you are interested in applying for this position and you meet the requirements, please send your updated CV to: Ellie Laflain at Line Up Aviation
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