Test Validation Engineer

About the job
Role : Test & Validation Engineer
Location : Peterborough
Contract : Twelve-months contract
Inside IR 35

Job Duties/Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:

- Adhere to the Organisation's health and safety policy and safe working practices.
- Adhere to Caterpillar's Values in Action: Integrity, Commitment, Excellence, Teamwork & Sustainability
- Effectively manage several projects simultaneously.
- Operate a multitude of different off-highway vehicles including but not limited to, Hydraulic Excavators, Back-hoe Loaders, Telehandlers, Track Type Tractors where required.

- Diagnose and fix a range of faults on both engine and machine.
- Work from engineering drawings (electrical, mechanical and hydraulic)
- Produce electrical looms to interface engine and machine.
- Travel to various off site test and development facilities both CAT owned and 3rd Party (some overseas).
- Keep the work area clean, tidy and safe in line with 5S and total preventative maintenance (TPM)

Skills, experience & qualifications you will have;

- Formal education in an engineering discipline preferably electrical or mechanical

- Must have ability to communicate effectively with team members and others in the work group, as well as employees in other business units, customers, and suppliers.
- Demonstrable high level of mechanical, hydraulic and electrical/electronic aptitude with a good working knowledge of engines and machines.

- A good working knowledge of instrumentation and its application.

- Have a fully flexible approach to the job role & responsibilities.
- Good PC skills ability to use Microsoft Office and CAT designed software.


Skills, experience & qualifications you may have;

- Good machine/engine hydraulic, electrical, mechanical and diagnostic/problem solving skills.
- Previous experience in use of CANape is desirable.