MERITUS are recruiting for a Satellite Electrical Engineer to join our client on an initial 6 month contract with very likely extensions thereafter. Overtime is available and there might be travel to Oxford involved in the position.

SATELLITE ELECTRICAL ENGINEER - INSIDE IR35 - £45 PER HOUR - STEVENAGE - 6 MONTHS - SINGLE STAGE INTERVIEW PROCESS

Responsibilities

• Maintenance and fault finding of electronic/RF test racks.
• Computer system and networks administration.
• Programming and scripting languages.
• Environmental and launch test campaign.
• Preparing test specifications for test racks, reviewing data packs from suppliers, and supporting reviews of test equipment design and non-conformances.

Skill Set

Essential

• Minimum of a degree in an Electrical Engineering related discipline or relevant experience in a similar role >5 years
• Good theoretical and practical knowledge of electronic and RF test racks
• Fault finding skills down to board and component level.
• Network and computer administration in Windows and Linux environments
• Good documentation skills (procedures, reports etc.)
• Knowledge of interfaces such as Mil-1553, SpaceWire, CAN bus, RS232/422 etc.
• ATE environments such as PCI, VXI, PXI etc.
• Competent in the use of a variety of general-purpose lab test equipment
• Knowledge of test systems.
• Design, manufacture, and commissioning of test systems.
• Willing to support shifts and travel overseas on test campaigns as required.

Desirable

• Experience of electrical integration of equipment on a spacecraft.

• Working knowledge of TMTC Databases.
• Writing test sequences/scripts for execution of spacecraft systems tests including FDIR from the Central Checkout System (CCS).

• Experience of environmental and launch test campaigns.
• Familiar with the Windows and Linux operating systems.

• Programming and scripting languages, in particularly writing and debugging Linux/Unix bash scripts is an advantage. Knowledge of a programming language such as C, Java, python, TCL, VBA