Omega Resource Group
Senior Test Support Engineer
Job Location
Northampton, United Kingdom
Job Description
Job Title: Senior Test Support Engineer
Location: Northampton
Salary: £55,000 - £65,000
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Senior Test Support Engineer to join a market leading engineering company based in Northampton.
Job Description:
As a Senior Test Support Engineer, you will be working within the Test House to provide a mixture of day-to-day hands-on engineering support. This includes new equipment installation, and ownership and delivery of one or more facility upgrades. The role requires a broad range of engineering knowledge deployed in such a way that the department provides accurate and reliable testing of internal combustion engines, rigs and associated components.
The Role:
To take the company’s engine test requirements and deliver suitable engineering solutions, on time, to achieve those.
To have extensive experience of supporting automotive (or similar) powertrain and rig/component testing.
The senior engineer will cover both investigation and resolution of day to day faults with the test equipment but also able to select, install, set up and calibrate a range of pressure, temperature, torque, flow & humidity transducers on new installations, and as additional requests.
This includes programming the dyno control/logging system with automated test routines and logging, alarms, PID control etc.
Confident with root cause fault finding and the subsequent resolving of electrical, software and mechanical testbed/rig issues.
Will be responsible for specifying, costing, planning and delivering one or more planned upgrades to the test facility. These maybe delivered wholly with internal resource or with the assistance of subcontractor(s).
Assessing and securing sub-contractor services for the current equipment and managing their delivery.
Work to improving departmental resources and capability by maintaining records and writing and implementing procedures etc.
Issue clear and timely progress/status updates to management.
Candidate Profile:
Good understanding of internal combustion engines and engine test methodology.
Specification & implementation of instrumentation systems (temperature, pressure, vibration, strain etc), measurement & logging equipment. i.e. strong knowledge of how to configure and maintain test bed control systems. CP Cadet or AVL Puma preferred.
Capable of programming control loops, PID controllers, automated test routines etc.
Specification and delivery of small and larger scale test facility upgrades.
Experience of working with sub-contractors.
Writing of specifications, procedures and documentation of work carried out.
Programming experience (C or Visual Basic)
Electronic and electrical circuit design knowledge.
Have a passion for engineering and problem solving and be able to organise own and others workload in an effective manner.
For further details, please contact Nick Sollis – (phone number removed) or (url removed)
Omega Resource Group are an employment agency specialising in opportunities at all levels within the Engineering, Aerospace, Automotive, Electronics, Defence, Scientific, Oil & Gas, Construction and Manufacturing sectors.
We are always seeking Engineering Staff, Senior Managers, Skilled and Semi-Skilled Machinists, Mechanical Fitters, Electrical Fitters, Quality Engineers, Materials Science Engineers, Maintenance Engineers, Electronics Engineers, Test Technicians, Technical Authors and Laboratory Technicians to name but a few.
For details of other opportunities available within your chosen field please visit our website (url removed)
Omega Resource Group is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
Omega is an employment business specialising in opportunities at all levels within the Engineering, Manufacturing, Aerospace, Automotive, Electronics, Defence, Scientific, Energy & Renewables and Tech sectors
Location: Northampton, GB
Posted Date: 11/23/2024
Location: Northampton
Salary: £55,000 - £65,000
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Senior Test Support Engineer to join a market leading engineering company based in Northampton.
Job Description:
As a Senior Test Support Engineer, you will be working within the Test House to provide a mixture of day-to-day hands-on engineering support. This includes new equipment installation, and ownership and delivery of one or more facility upgrades. The role requires a broad range of engineering knowledge deployed in such a way that the department provides accurate and reliable testing of internal combustion engines, rigs and associated components.
The Role:
To take the company’s engine test requirements and deliver suitable engineering solutions, on time, to achieve those.
To have extensive experience of supporting automotive (or similar) powertrain and rig/component testing.
The senior engineer will cover both investigation and resolution of day to day faults with the test equipment but also able to select, install, set up and calibrate a range of pressure, temperature, torque, flow & humidity transducers on new installations, and as additional requests.
This includes programming the dyno control/logging system with automated test routines and logging, alarms, PID control etc.
Confident with root cause fault finding and the subsequent resolving of electrical, software and mechanical testbed/rig issues.
Will be responsible for specifying, costing, planning and delivering one or more planned upgrades to the test facility. These maybe delivered wholly with internal resource or with the assistance of subcontractor(s).
Assessing and securing sub-contractor services for the current equipment and managing their delivery.
Work to improving departmental resources and capability by maintaining records and writing and implementing procedures etc.
Issue clear and timely progress/status updates to management.
Candidate Profile:
Good understanding of internal combustion engines and engine test methodology.
Specification & implementation of instrumentation systems (temperature, pressure, vibration, strain etc), measurement & logging equipment. i.e. strong knowledge of how to configure and maintain test bed control systems. CP Cadet or AVL Puma preferred.
Capable of programming control loops, PID controllers, automated test routines etc.
Specification and delivery of small and larger scale test facility upgrades.
Experience of working with sub-contractors.
Writing of specifications, procedures and documentation of work carried out.
Programming experience (C or Visual Basic)
Electronic and electrical circuit design knowledge.
Have a passion for engineering and problem solving and be able to organise own and others workload in an effective manner.
For further details, please contact Nick Sollis – (phone number removed) or (url removed)
Omega Resource Group are an employment agency specialising in opportunities at all levels within the Engineering, Aerospace, Automotive, Electronics, Defence, Scientific, Oil & Gas, Construction and Manufacturing sectors.
We are always seeking Engineering Staff, Senior Managers, Skilled and Semi-Skilled Machinists, Mechanical Fitters, Electrical Fitters, Quality Engineers, Materials Science Engineers, Maintenance Engineers, Electronics Engineers, Test Technicians, Technical Authors and Laboratory Technicians to name but a few.
For details of other opportunities available within your chosen field please visit our website (url removed)
Omega Resource Group is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
Omega is an employment business specialising in opportunities at all levels within the Engineering, Manufacturing, Aerospace, Automotive, Electronics, Defence, Scientific, Energy & Renewables and Tech sectors
Location: Northampton, GB
Posted Date: 11/23/2024
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