Location: Hengelo, Netherlands

The Mechanical & Electrical discipline, consisting of approximately 150 employees, is responsible for the hardware engineering of our radars and on-board systems in various domains: Radars, Fire Control and Combat Management Systems. Examples of mechanical designs are: rotating couplings, support structures, drives, cooling and filter units, etc., supported by thermal and stress analyses, etc. This equipment is designed to withstand the harsh environment of the defense world.   

Are you a driven engineer with a passion for supporting our engineering department in demonstrating if our designs can operate in this harsh environment? Are you interested in preparing, setting up and running tests for our designs. Can you analyze the results? Do you know how to advise our designers with demonstrating the quality and requirements and how to integrate it into the process?

Then we at Thales have a challenging position for you as: 

Test and Verification Engineer

Your responsibilities:
•    Prepare, validate and conduct or co-ordinate the hardware validation tests.
•    Guides suppliers in the hardware validation testing, towards qualification.
•    Analyze and solve problems and change requests raised to hardware verification.
•    Ensure knowledge sharing to downstream stakeholders.
•    Ensure verification protocols are handed over for series production.
•    Define hardware verification strategy in consistency with the design process.
•    Tailor the hardware verification (process, practices and tools) according to project’s requirements.
•    Define hardware verification scenarios and implementation.
•    Prepare, conduct or co-ordinate HW verification activities (e.g. factory- and first article inspections, Environmental Competence Center (ECC) testing).
•    Analyze the results and report to the development teams.

We are looking for an engineer with:

•    A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechanical-, Mechatronics- or Electrical- Engineering.
•    Demonstrated experience as engineer and preferably a similar roll.
•    Experience in a production environment with series production in the defense industry.
•    A strong solution-oriented approach.
•    Good communication skills and the ability to work effectively with various teams.
•    Organization talent that is able to get key players together and sets things into action.
•    Creativity and innovation capacity to continuously improve existing systems.

Interested??

We offer you a position within a professional organization with an informal working atmosphere in which you can develop your talent optimally. A market-based salary, good benefits and sufficient training and growth opportunities are also part of this. Do you recognize yourself in the above profile and are you looking for a versatile and challenging job in an international and high-tech environment? We will be happy to get in touch with you.

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