MilSatCom Test System Specialist - Contract - UK

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  • Job Location: South East, England
  • Type: Contract
  • Posted: 08/02/2021

A Test System Specialist for MilSatCom payloads is urgently required

Main focus is the design, development, delivery and deployment / maintenance of ground test system equipment dedicated to the measurement of the performance of military telecom payloads.
- The Payload Test System components will include all off board interfaces; active and/or passive; all means necessary for the configuration of the unit under test (including digital processor, active antenna, etc.) and the automation of test racks used to conduct Electrical tests; RF tests and potentially EMC and Thermal tests.

The role will involve:
- Understanding or interpreting customer’s test requirements and Validation philosophy
- The design for the test solution for a secured telecom payload
- Support the development and / or procurement of the components needed to the delivery of the end-to-end system
- Work hand-in-hand with the Validation team and the AIT operation team for the consolidation of the requirements and specifications; the delivery phase and the following deployment / support through the AIT ops phases [at payload and spacecraft level]
- As part of a wider project team, take a hands-on role in the measurement of the payload
performances and in its analysis
- Compile written reports or analysis documentation – for the test solution and also potentially for the units / systems under test
- Support the test campaigns and the analysis of test results, working hand-in-hand with the
Assembly, Integration and Test operations team (working in clean room environment)
- Lead investigation of technical issues or problems
- As needed / as required; support customer and supplier test review meetings

Qualification
A degree in Electrical, Electronic engineering, mathematics or physics
Desirable: RF/microwave/radio communications content in academic background

Experience:
RF communication engineering
RF Instruments; Test Equipment and Test technique
Test automation / COTS test software
Working within an environment controlled strictly through an established Quality system
Microwave / high frequency RF engineering
Knowledge of Satellite Communications systems
An understanding of equipment fitted to the Satellite payload such as receivers, converters,
amplifiers, waveguides and antennas
An in-depth knowledge of RF measurement instruments and of their use in the context of telecom payload testing
Engineering life cycles and equipment/system/payload or environmental testing Quality standards


The role might require occasional shift work / weekend work or the support to AIT operations
organised in 24/7 rota.

Capital International Staffing Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

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