Engineering Specialist

Salary: £30k

Location: Bishop's Stortford

Job Type: Permanent

Start Date: Immediately

Supports the engineering team with designing, prototyping and testing components and machines in relation to diesel/electric powered special purpose off road equipment. 90%+ of the working day would be workshop based

Duties and responsibilities:　

• Performs functional evaluations of prototypes. Documents the results of the evaluation. Evaluates field failures to determine root cause. Works with suppliers to further evaluate failed components.

• Carry out test programs and field trials

• Construct prototypes per the design requirements.

• Liaise effectively and work efficiently with other members of the Design / Development team

• Design and development of specialized test stands and test equipment

• Some travel may be required to local field test sites along with remote test locations for data acquisition or performance evaluations

• Supports assembly with introduction of new products and fault diagnostics

• Travel to test houses to support product testing.

Essential skills & experience:

• Minimum 5 years' experience, ideally 10+ years in a similar role

• A varied practical background including special purpose off-road machinery

• Experience with diesel powered mobile equipment with hydraulics and also electrical systems.

• Experience with typical workshop equipment: Hand tools, Lathes, Mills, Drills, Welding Equipment etc.

• Working knowledge of typical Microsoft systems Word, Excel, Outlook

• Experience of Hydraulic testing equipment (Data Acquisition / Installation)

• Diesel engines with Electronic fuel injection and DPF. (Fault finding / Installation)

• Electrically powered Equipment. (Fault finding / Installation)