Test Engineer; Aerospace Electronics

Description

Acara Solutions has been providing aerospace firms nationally with our staffing services for over 65 years. Our national/international aerospace client with roots back to the 1850's, has a plant in Fort Walton, FL (Panhandle). They are looking for 2 Test Engineers with electronics backgrounds to join their organization. These are direct salaried employee positions (up to $135K) plus bonus.

The team currently consists of 2 other test engineers, 3 technicians, 3 assemblers in their new $2M high power lab. This is a hands‑on in the lab testing products position. Will have some engineering responsibilities; for example, software or hardware development and writing reports.

The Test Engineer works with minimal supervision and uses originality, ingenuity and established procedures to perform engineering duties in researching, planning, designing, and developing products for use in the Aerospace or Electronics marketplace. The Test Engineer works on new product designs, modernization, and upgrades, as well as performs extensive analyses to ensure cost, quality, and customer requirements. The Test Engineer also uses computer-assisted engineering and design software and equipment to perform daily assignments, applying principles of science and mathematics to develop economical solutions to technical problems.

• Work effectively with all functional groups to achieve product performance and cost targets. Build quality and manufacturability into the design. Define/understand/comply with company and regulatory guidelines to assure a safe operating environment.
• Support continuous process improvement activities including Kaizen, 5S practices to ensure an organized and efficient working environment, and personal development.
• Demonstrate proficiency with verbal and written English for technical reports, presentations, analyses, or other communications at the appropriate level throughout the organization.
• Understand, decompose, and define product and process requirements to support product development, sustaining and R&D.
• Plan, estimate, prioritize, and manage work activities to support meeting project schedules and budgets.
• Utilize experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Produce thorough and accurate design and development work of suitable complexity that meets all customer specifications and company requirements for schedule, cost, producibility, quality, and reliability.
• Utilize proficient problem‑solving processes, documentation, tools and analyses to quickly and effectively identify root cause and corrective actions to technical challenges and/or issues in support of product development and product sustaining assignments.
• Generate and review product development documentation including proposals, technical reports, procedures, correspondence, etc. necessary to satisfy customer and program requirements.
• Self‑directed and motivated while working and communicating effectively within a team environment that consists of several engineering, operations, quality, and business disciplines.
• Provide support of IPT activities in collaboration with other technical, operations, quality, and business disciplines.
• Design test equipment hardware and software, select and procure equipment necessary to obtain desired results and accuracy, integrate and/or build automated test systems of low or medium complexity. Design, code and debug computer/data acquisition systems necessary for automated testing.
• Provide design package consisting of written description, detailed wiring and schematics, pictures, component lists, etc., such that test equipment and test systems can be accurately reconstructed. Perform written documentation, configuration control, and validation of all hardware and software generated. Assure that test data generated is neat, organized, accurate and archived properly.
• Generate test procedures from specifications. Perform calculations to establish test equipment specifications, test setup, and test limits. Anticipate and mitigate unexpected and potentially hazardous events that could occur during a test.
• Knowledge:
• Analog Circuit Design and Digital Circuit Design.
• Microprocessor / Microcontroller design.
• Automated test system design, and programming of data acquisition systems.
• Software development and verification.
• Product/equipment requirements development, requirements analysis/verification and test procedures development.
• Configuration management in a regulated environment.

• Bachelor's degree (prefer BSEE)
• Min 5+ years exp designing test equipment for electronics product testing, production and NPI testing (including automated and bench level testing)
• One of the 2 positions can be level II with as little as 2 years of electronics test experience.
• This facility works with the U.S. military; U.S. Citizenship is required.

• ATE working programming knowledge with Ate Easy or Lab View
• Analog experience
• High voltage experience
• Experience in writing qualification…