Product Test Engineer - 39984 (834)

Join an industry leader in automotive innovation as a Product Test Engineer, conducting crucial physical testing on vehicle components and systems to meet Passive Safety targets. You'll use advanced test equipment and data acquisition systems to ensure compliance with safety regulations and produce timely reports. Ideal candidates will have a degree in Engineering or related fields and experience in vehicle safety testing, including crash testing and data analysis.

Position Description:
The candidate would join the Vehicle Safety Test Laboratories test team 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.

Skills Required:

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

Experience Required:
Degree or equivalent qualification in a related field (e.g. Engineering, Motorsport, Aerospace, Physics).

Experience Preferred:
Previous experience of working in a vehicle safety test laboratory, using rigs, sleds or whole vehicle crash testing.