Vehicle Safety Test Engineer
Posted 2 weeks ago by TipTopJob
£27 Per hour
Inside
Undetermined
Warwick, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Vehicle Safety Test Engineer role involves conducting physical destructive testing on automotive components, systems, and vehicles to meet Passive Safety targets. The position requires collaboration with customers to utilize data for engineering development and compliance evidence. The engineer will manage tests using modern equipment and produce timely reports, with potential shifts later in the year. This is a contract role based in Warwickshire, classified as inside IR35.
Key Responsibilities:
- Conduct physical destructive testing on automotive components, systems, and vehicles.
- Collaborate with customers to utilize data for engineering development and compliance evidence.
- Translate regulation and requirement test protocols.
- Manage tests using modern test equipment, instrumentation, and data acquisition systems.
- Produce test reports on time.
- Potentially work shifts later in the year.
Key Skills:
- Experience of physical testing in a laboratory.
- Working knowledge of passive safety regulations and requirements, including FMVSS and ECE.
- Working knowledge of instrumentation and data acquisition systems (e.g., force, displacement, acceleration).
- Degree educated desired but not essential.
Salary (Rate): £27.21/hr
City: Warwick
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Our premium brand Automotive client is currently recruiting for the following role: Vehicle Safety Test Engineer : GBP 27.21/hr (Inside IR35) : Warwickshire : 9 Months (potential for yearly renewal)
Duties
The candidate will 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
Additional Information
This role is on a contract basis and is Inside IR35. The services advertised by Premea Limited for this vacancy are those of an Employment Business. Premea is a specialist IT and Engineering recruitment consultancy representing clients in the UK and internationally within the Automotive, Motorsport and Aerospace sectors.