Position Title: Technical Engineer

Duration: Contract

Location: Gaydon

Duties:

• The candidate would join the Vehicle Safety Test Laboratories test team at Gaydon to conduct physical destructive testing on components, systems and vehicles to meet Passive Safety targets.
• Working closely with customers, the data is used to progress engineering development, or to be used for compliance evidence by witness authorities and others.
• With the ability to translate regulation and requirement test protocols, and using a variety of modern test equipment, instrumentation and data acquisition systems, the candidate will manage the test through to completion and produce a test report on time.
• Initially on "days", the role may require being on shifts later in the year (earlies and lates).

Skills:

• Experience of physical testing in a laboratory.
• Working knowledge of passive safety regulations and requirements, inc. FMVSS and ECE.
• Working knowledge of instrumentation and data acquisition systems e.g. force, displacement, acceleration.

Education:

• Degree educated desired but not essential

Why work through Contech's?

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