Engineer, Test & Validation

Engineer, Test & Validation   Location: Bradenton, FL Base Salary Rate: $104,690.00 - $123,165.00 Job type: Full-time   About This Role   Kidde Global Solutions (KGS), a portfolio company of Lone Star Funds, is seeking a first shift lab engineer to join our team who will be responsible for ensuring the quality and compliance of smoke and carbon monoxide detection products. In this role, you will review schematics and customer requirements, develop detailed testing procedures, and execute comprehensive validation and regression tests. You will analyze defective components, conduct failure analyses, and document all findings meticulously for review by leadership and team members.  You will also use your technical skills to support product validation within Global Lab organization. This is an onsite role for someone living near Bradenton, FL and will require 5-10% travel in the US based on project priorities and needs.    Key Responsibilities   Create complex test strategies for product validation test to ensure product compliance with industry regulations for life safety products. Review, test, and validate agency & engineering design requirements for each product to ensure compliance with agency standards. Document product requirements leading to developing individual test cases in an organized manner for global lab organizations to track and monitor test progression. Assist in planning work breakdowns for assigned engineering technicians to accelerate product testing schedules to meet critical business milestones. Work with cross-functional engineering teams to assist in complex route cause analysis to create reliable and industry leading life safety products. Understands how to read/interpret electrical and mechanical schematics to help understand test requirements. Interact with key critical customers to provide technical support, as needed.  Basic Qualifications   Bachelor’s Degree 6+ years’ experience working as a lab/test engineer with consumer electronics. 1+ year of experience using digital and analog testing equipment such as multimeters and oscilloscopes.    Preferred Qualifications   B.A./ B.S. in Electronics Technology, Lab technician, Electrical Engineering, or related field with 2 years of related experience preferred Excellent self-task management/prioritization and documentation skills in a R&D or lab environment. Understands how to read and interpret schematics, installation sheets, and bill of materials. Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills with little to no supervision. Experience working on failure probability models and risk mitigation plans. Interpersonal skills to work with several departments, including engineering, key project stakeholders and production. Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work collaboratively with others in a team environment. Familiarity with UL standards. MATLAB / Minitab data analysis experience. Experience in Jira or other similar tools. Must be able to work both independently, as well as part of a team. Ability to adapt to change.