Senior Electro-Mechanical Test Lead

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What will you be doing?

As a Senior Electro-Mechanical Test Lead, you will join our South Coast team to support our activities within the Defence sector. Join ALTEN Ltd in leading the test and assurance strategy for some of the UK’s most complex marine and defence technology platforms. Working on next-generation electro-mechanical systems deployed in harsh environments, you’ll guide projects from design through to verified delivery. If you're an expert in test governance, quality assurance, and lifecycle delivery, this is your chance to influence high-stakes engineering outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead test planning, execution and reporting across electrical, mechanical, EMC, and environmental testing for multiple defence-grade systems.
• Provide test and quality governance, supporting technology leads in identifying verification points, test event criteria, and ensuring compliance through each lifecycle stage.
• Act as the Quality Assurance lead, ensuring all design and testing documentation meets corporate and industry standards.
• Coordinate and deliver test activities across multiple projects and project managers, managing risks, reporting issues, and ensuring alignment with delivery milestones.
• Oversee the preparation and delivery of test documentation for both internal and external stakeholders, aligned with DID (Data Item Description) milestones.
• Ensure all project QA gates and customer test requirements are satisfied to support on-time project acceptance.
  
  

Essential Skills & Experience

• 10+ years of experience in electrical/mechanical testing, ideally within defence, marine, aerospace or similar regulated industries.
• Strong knowledge of test analysis, test specification writing, and verification & validation methodologies.
• Familiarity with EMC, environmental, and non-functional testing practices.
• Proven background in quality assurance, including design documentation standards and compliance oversight.
• Experience coordinating complex test events across cross-functional teams.
• Excellent stakeholder communication and risk management skills.
• Bachelor’s degree (Master’s preferred) in Engineering, Systems, Electronics, or Mechanical disciplines, or equivalent UK defence/military technical experience.
• Must be eligible for, or already hold, UK SC-Level Security Clearance.
  
  

Why join us?

We foster a community of dually talented individuals who are both entrepreneurs and technology specialists. Our teams embody the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship, enabling us to develop solutions most efficiently.

Our commitment to sustainable growth is unwavering, and we continuously strive for accelerated transformation and continuous improvement. Through ALTEN labs, mentoring programs, internal universities, and more, we are always pushing boundaries and embracing new possibilities.

We offer incredible opportunities to join inspiring projects in the most innovative companies.

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Join our passionate team and start building tomorrow, today!

In short you get:

• A personalised career path and a rewarding management style
• A chance to work on the most exciting engineering projects and technologies along with premium customers
• A huge diversity of engineering projects and industries
• A competitive salary
• Private Medical Insurance
• Pension Scheme
• Cycle-to-work Scheme among many additional benefits
• Social atmosphere, regular gatherings, and team buildings
• Flexible way of working (role dependent)