Operational Engineering Technician

About the Role:

Dyson is forever innovating and looking to develop new and exciting products. As part of Dyson Test Team (RDD Prototyping, Verification & Test), Test Operations play an integral part in determining how, when and where we validate these new technologies and products to ensure these designs are robust to real world conditions.

Senior Test Technician supports for the delivery of the execution of small to medium complex projects especially in managing, designing, executing and reporting on the critical testing required to prove out emerging Dyson technologies by using prescribed guidelines and procedures with a good knowledge of own discipline.

Main Duties/Responsibilities:

• Involve and manage new Dyson products development projects in terms of performance and robustness verification testing in the test labs, with good knowledge of related verification testing. 
• Collaborate within Test Engineers and technicians to identify, prioritise and plan for testing to support test demands to be executed on time as project time plan.
• Collaborate within external partners; Design Team, Engineering Team and Technology Team to understand the risks associated with new technologies and help define the best way of assessing those risks.
• Review each of test request, align with testing requirements for product development and report out testing readiness and the risks associated with the testing plan in term of test capacity and capability.
• Deliver specific operational task within a lab with minimum guidance and leading a team of Test Technicians and Test Operators. 
• Ensure quality output of test results, failure report and provide necessary advice to the relevant stakeholders.
• Be fully involved in the failure analysis of related UUT (Unit Under Test).
• Report relevant results, progress and analysis to a wide range of stakeholders – including design engineers and deliver any operational activity to relevant safety standards.
• Liaise with Test Management and Engineering Team to identify and execute the verification strategy for testing; to assess and improve Dyson product designs and technologies to be able to be at the top in the market.
• Support continuous improvement activity to optimize lab operation in term time, cost and quality within the lab.
• Specify test equipment to enable any risks to be assessed – including suitable and often bespoke data acquisition setups.
• Setup required test either individually or as a part of a team of other engineers or technicians and monitor the progress.
• Review Dyson products features/technologies and provide advice on the test setup based on the specific products designs including external suppliers.
• Carry out other related tasks in addition to the above main tasks.

Person Specification:

• Diploma or Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Electronic Engineering, or related field which is equivalent experience with broad technical engineering skills.
• Experienced in industry that related to Operations of Verification and Testing development at the appropriate level.
• Skilled in project management, verification and testing environment, planning and conducting testing, test method development and you had exposure to test rigs and automation.
• Knowledge in FMEA (Failure Mode and Effect Analysis) and statistical analysis.
• Experienced in working with prototyping solutions and benchmark testing methodologies and exposure to test automation.

Essential:

• Familiar with international test method standards (IEC, EN, ASTM, etc.) and internally developed test method focusing on robustness and performance testing for the product.

• Possess people leadership, excellent organisational and team-working skills; capable to plan efficiently, to prioritise tasks and to co-ordinate in keeping all relevant stakeholders in the loop on the status of projects and workloads.
• Exceptional, capable and confident in communication and presentation skills; able to translate and communicate complex technical information to relevant stakeholders either within internal or external teams.
• Comfortable with a high degree of ambiguity and enjoy greatly the idea of solving problems that have not been solved at scale before.
• Proactive and have high level sense of urgency, responsibility and commitment.

Desirable:

• Excellent personality and open to positive criticism.
• Self-starter with full of initiative to make the difference.
• Perseverance – consistently putting effort to maintain and further improve current system or process.

• Able to maintain effective working relationships with those contacted during work.

• Capable of working under pressure, commit to tight deadlines and able to think and react promptly.

Dyson is an equal opportunity employer. We know that great minds don’t think alike, and it takes all kinds of minds to make our technology so unique. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other any other dimension of diversity.