Test Equipment Engineer

About the role

Founded in 1918, Kearfott Corporation, a global Aerospace and Defense supplier for over 100 years, is a leader in the design and manufacture of precision motion control products and inertial navigation components. Kearfott has a very long history of innovation and excellence and is the go-to brand for many of our global clients. Kearfott is trusted, respected and plays a vital role in the success of America’s aerospace and defense industries. With over a century of expertise & experience, Kearfott is dedicated to providing quality, reliability, and cutting-edge technology to customers worldwide to meet their sea, land, air, and space navigation and guidance requirements. We are looking for talented individuals who want to be part of a world-class workforce. Join Kearfott and become part of a company that is recognized for technical expertise and respected world-wide as a ‘full service’ provider. For more information visit our website at www.kearfott.com

All work is to be performed onsite at our Pine Brook, NJ facilities.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the operational status, availability, reliability, and readiness of production test equipment.
• Serve as a technical point of contact for assigned production test stations and equipment.
• Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve test station failures and recurring equipment issues.
• Perform system-level troubleshooting to determine whether problems originate from hardware, software, instrumentation, cabling, fixtures, configuration, procedures, or equipment operation.
• Perform root-cause analysis and develop appropriate repair, corrective-action, or improvement plans.
• Repair, modify, or configure equipment when appropriate and coordinate with other engineering groups, technicians, vendors, or suppliers when specialized support is required.
• Support a variety of automated and semi-automated test equipment, including motion systems, power supplies, temperature-control equipment, data acquisition systems, instrumentation, fixtures, and custom test equipment.
• Support the redesign, rebuild, and improvement of existing test stations to improve reliability, maintainability, usability, safety, and production capacity.
• Provide technical input into the electrical, mechanical, software, instrumentation, and system-level design of new test equipment.
• Assist with the selection and specification of test equipment, instrumentation, computers, interfaces, cables, fixtures, and supporting hardware.
• Support LabVIEW-based test software and other automation tools. LabVIEW experience is preferred; training may be provided to a qualified candidate with appropriate technical aptitude.
• Make or support minor test software and configuration changes when appropriate and coordinate larger software changes with the responsible software engineering team.
• Support the development, integration, verification, certification, qualification, release, and production deployment of new or modified test equipment.
• Investigate failures occurring during production and unattended test operations