Vehicle Safety Test Engineer - 39967 (812)

Join a leading engineering operations team in Warwickshire, where you'll play a pivotal role in conducting physical destructive testing on vehicle components, systems, and structures to meet critical Passive Safety targets. This exciting opportunity offers hands-on experience with advanced testing equipment, data acquisition systems, and the chance to directly influence engineering development and compliance. If you have a background in engineering, motorsport, or aerospace and a strong understanding of passive safety regulations, we want to hear from you!

Position Description:
The candidate would join the Vehicle Safety Test Laboratories test team to conduct physical destructive testing on components, systems and vehicles to meet Passive Safety targets.

Working closely with customers, the data is used to progress engineering development, or to be used for compliance evidence by witness authorities and others. With the ability to translate regulation and requirement test protocols, and using a variety of modern test equipment, instrumentation and data acquisition systems, the candidate will manage the test through to completion and produce a test report on time.

Skills Required:

• Experience of physical testing in a laboratory.
• Working knowledge of passive safety regulations and requirements, incl FMVSS and ECE.
• Working knowledge of instrumentation and data acquisition systems. E.g. force, displacement, acceleration.

Experience Required:
Degree or equivalent qualification in a related field (e.g. Engineering, Motorsport, Aerospace, Physics).

Experience Preferred:
Previous experience of working in a vehicle safety test laboratory, using rigs, sleds or whole vehicle crash testing.