•    Planning, executing and monitoring development and qualification testing activities on hydraulic and electro-hydraulic aircraft components, with support and guidance from engineering team. 
•    Safe execution of all tasks by following corporate and departmental safety procedures.
•    Practical assembly, commissioning and operation of bespoke hydraulic and electro-hydraulic development and qualification test setups. 
•    Setup and configuration of high speed data acquisition, control and automation systems, working with a range of analogue and digital signal types. 
•    Post-processing, analysis, and presentation of gathered data. 
•    Development and assembly of prototypes and engineering test units. 
•    Working in a high quality, high safety environment.
•    Technical approval of hydraulic development and qualification test setups. Ownership and maintenance of engineering procedures related to engineering development and test. 
•    Working to aerospace industry standards & specifications, as well as aircraft specific requirements. 
•    Managing and maintaining engineering test equipment, instrumentation and facilities. 
•    Technical support to production department, supporting production investigations as well as supporting the specification, commissioning and troubleshooting of production test equipment.
•    Ensuring timely and consistent communication on status of development and qualification activities, and working to project deadlines.
•    Support to testing and investigation of in-service failures & air accident investigations.
 

•    HNC or equivalent UK level 4 qualification or higher, in a technical discipline.

•    Scrupulous and attentive approach to risk and safety. Strong advocate for safety requirements and protocols.
•    Good practical skills and willingness to engage in hands-on activities including prototyping and testing.
•    Strong learning agility, quickly learns and adapts to new software, systems, and hardware; uses external information to solve problems independently.
•    Proactiveness, initiative and drive to work well independently and as part of an engineering team.
•    Foundation electronic knowledge and ability to apply fundamental electrical and electronic principles to data gathering, signal conditioning, control, and automation activities. 
•    Able to use basic tools to handle data and turn it into charts and graphs. 
•    Applied critical thinking skills, taking a systematic and evidence-based approach to problem solving.
•    Keen observational skills, with good record keeping, meticulousness and attention to detail.
•    Good presentation and communication skills, both verbal and written.
•    Good standard of professionalism, particularly in customer facing scenarios.
•    Theoretical and practical experience of hydraulic system setup and operation. 
•    Experience using NI DiaDEM for data handling and analysis.
•    Practical experience with test instrumentation and data acquisition systems.
•    Practical experience in programming and debugging PLC systems, or other small-scale control / automation systems.
•    Comfortable using VBA scripts, batch scripts or other desktop automation tools to automate workflow.
•    Eaton certified QEW (Qualified Electrical Worker) level 1 or 2
•    Experience in assessment of risk per HSE principles.
•    Familiar with 8D process, and able to contribute to 8D investigations.
•    Familiar with RTCA/DO-160 and MIL-STD-810 environmental testing requirements.