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Senior Production Test & Repair Engineer


Job Location:

Hastings - UK

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 11 September 2026 (14 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 9 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

An exciting opportunity to join General Dynamics a leading-edge defence company as a Senior Production Test & Repair Engineer. This position would allow you to play an important role in our innovative Test Development team working on avionics and possibly on land based armoured vehicle communication systems.

Join a team responsible for testing fault diagnosis and repair of advanced avionics and mission-critical electronic systems. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on investigating product failures diagnosing faults to component level carrying out repair activities and supporting the resolution of complex electronic assembly failures.

We are particularly interested in engineers with strong electronics troubleshooting experience including PCB fault-finding schematic interpretation root cause analysis and component-level repair.

Defence experience is not essential. Applications are welcomed from candidates within aerospace rail telecoms industrial electronics manufacturing medical devices and other technically complex environments.

In this role you will:

  • Provide test solutions for highly technical electronic circuits and units
  • Undertake test strategies and develop test solutions to ensure our products meet all our quality requirements and safe functionality within the aircraft
  • Play a major part in technical investigations requiring a comprehensive knowledge of electronic hardware and software

Working alongside highly skilled engineers you will find your hardware/software knowledge continually expanding leading to opportunities for future development and progression

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Qualifications :

Essential Experience

  • Component-level fault diagnosis and repair
  • Electronic circuit troubleshooting
  • Ability to read and interpret electronic schematics
  • Root cause analysis of electronic failures
  • Production test of electronic assemblies
  • Experience using oscilloscopes multimeters spectrum analysers and laboratory test equipment
  • Experience fault-finding on analogue digital and mixed-signal electronics
  • Minimum of HNC level education or equivalent

Highly Desirable

  • Avionics or aerospace electronics
  • Defence electronics
  • Automated test equipment (ATE)
  • Environmental and qualification testing
  • Experience working with or familiarity with AI/ML models is preferred.

Additional Information :

This role has a salary of between 45600 and 57000 plus our flexible benefits package.

We pride ourselves in being a great place to work with a shared sense of purpose offering impressive benefits: 

  • A compressed nine-day fortnight and compressed hours - which means every other Friday off. 
  • A personalized career development plan alongside regular progress reviews - supporting and valuing your progression within the Company. 
  • A flexible working environment where your contributions are recognized and rewarded with flexible benefits 

We believe in maintaining a diverse workplace - inclusive of beliefs cultural background job experiences thoughts and ideas. If who we are and what we do resonates with you we welcome you to join our inclusive team!

Our success is fuelled by our colleagues and the wide variety of backgrounds perspectives and skills they bring to the Company.

We are a Disability Confident Employer as such we offer an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job.
Please email if you would like your application to be considered under the DC Scheme.

All successful/appointed applicants must be able to obtain a level of UK Security clearance that is appropriate for the role and undertake suitable Right to work checks.

Every application matters to us. We want you to know that each application we receive is reviewed by a real personnot just an algorithm. Our screening questions are also carefully considered to help us understand your experience and fit for the role.

We appreciate the time you take to apply.


Remote Work :

No


Employment Type :

Full-time


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Groundwater Modelling Decision Support Initiative (GMDSI) is industry-funded and industry-aligned. Established in mid-2019, it aims to improve the contribution that groundwater modelling can make to groundwater management, regulation and decision making.

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