Manufacturing Test Lead
On-siteSydney, New South Wales, Australia
Job Summary
Define the Australian Manufacturing Test discipline end-to-end across PCBA, bottle, and vehicle stages, setting acceptance criteria and managing the test ecosystem including rigs, benches, and end-of-line testers. Drive the convergence of the test framework with the US site by co-owning the shared toolchain, error-code library, and version-controlled procedures. Lead a growing team while acting as the primary interface with Quality for IQ/OQ/PQ, gauge R&R, and FAT acceptance authority. Own line-down diagnosis and fix leadership when test stages stop builds, ensuring documentation prevents recurrence. Influence design reviews to ensure test points are present and assembly is instrumentable as drawn.
Required Qualifications
- Degree in Electrical, Electro-Mechanical, Mechatronic, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline
- Strong electrical and systems fundamentals — instrumentation, signal integrity basics, power systems, sensors, actuators, harnessing, PCBA-level debug
- A test-discipline owner's mindset
- Experience standing up — or substantially rebuilding — a Manufacturing Test capability
- Hands-on experience across the lifecycle — PCBA bring-up, board-level functional test, sub-assembly check-out, system-level FAT
- Experience speaking to ICT, FCT, custom rigs, environmental and RF testing
- Independent debug in Linux-based test environments
- Ability to parse logs, flash builds, and isolate failure modes without escalating to the SW team
- Comfortability operating without a 'golden unit' reference and validating the tester itself
- Strong Python
- Comfort with at least one of LabVIEW, TestStand, C/C++, or equivalent test-software stacks
- Ability to read and reason about a test framework's architecture
- Day-to-day comfort with USB, Ethernet, RS232/RS485, CAN, I2C, SPI, and similar interfaces
- Comfortability with test instrumentation that exercises interfaces
- Ability to work in high project ownership where scope and definition are limited
- Ability to decide, move, and adjust
- Ability to operate on the floor with team safety front of mind
- Experience hiring, mentoring, and leading test engineers
- Ability to obtain and maintain an Australian Government NV2 Security Clearance (Australian citizen)
Desired Qualifications
- Time leading or substantially shaping a Manufacturing Test capability in aerospace, defence, medical device, complex electronics, automotive, or subsea
- Recent experience with low-rate, high-mix, in-house production
- Cross-site test discipline coordination — owning convergence between two production sites
- Manufacturing Execution System (MES) and Test Execution System (TES) day-to-day fluency
- NixOS / declarative system configuration for test environments
- GUI development frameworks for technician-facing test consoles
- AS9100 / ISO 9001 quality systems and audit interface experience
- Familiarity with digital tools for manufacturing such as MES, Oracle ERP, Teamcenter PLM
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