Quality Assurance in Wokingham

UTEC, Acteon's Geo‑services business line, harnesses data to optimise designs, save time and maximise your project's economic value by providing a holistic understanding of the marine environment.

Our insights underpin customers' decision‑making from design to asset life extension, ensuring every decision delivers.

We are looking to hire a Quality Engineer on a full‑time, permanent basis.

Based at our facility in Wokingham the Quality Engineer is to support the investigation, diagnosis and resolution of product and manufacturing quality issues.

Working directly with NX2 systems, PCB assemblies and panel builds, you will play a key role in ensuring products meet the highest standards of quality, reliability and performance.

This is a practical role where you will spend much of your time in build and test environments, partnering with engineers and technicians to troubleshoot electrical faults, identify root causes and implement effective corrective actions.

Duties & Main Responsibilities

• Lead hands‑on fault finding across a variety of products, including NX2 systems, circuit boards and panel builds.
• Diagnose electrical faults during build, integration and testing stages; investigate issues in power, comms, signal integrity and system configuration.
• Work directly on hardware to isolate failures quickly and accurately, supporting test teams during failures and taking ownership of complex issues.
• Own root‑cause analysis for all product and test failures; record results consistently to enable analysis of failures and improvements over time.
• Break down faults to component, wiring, firmware or process level and use structured methods to identify true root cause, not surface symptoms.
• Drive corrective actions through engineering, production and suppliers; ensure fixes are verified, repeatable and embedded into standard processes.
• Define and improve electrical test procedures for products and assemblies, strengthening FAT and bench test coverage to expose failures early.
• Challenge test methods where faults are escaping into later stages, ensuring test results are consistent and recorded.
• Inspect and verify panel builds, wiring and terminations; validate schematics against physical builds and test outputs.
• Identify build defects, poor practices and inconsistencies early, supporting engineers in resolving integration issues across systems.
• Investigate faults linked to supplied components, PCBs and assemblies; lead supplier‑related root‑cause investigations and corrective actions.
• Inspect incoming electrical components and assemblies; provide feedback to procurement and supplier management.
• Read mechanical drawings and inspect to drawings, holding suppliers to account.
• Build and production support: work on the shop floor during builds and system integration, intervene early when faults or quality issues are identified and ensure problems are fixed at source.
• Improve build instructions and methods based on failure trends; raise and manage NCRs linked to product failures and defects.
• Track recurring faults; link NCR trends back to design, build or supplier issues and ensure issues are closed with evidence.
• Continuous improvement: identify repeat failure patterns across products and projects, drive design, test and build improvements to eliminate defects and increase first‑time pass rates at FAT and system testing.
• Improve reliability and reduce rework across all builds; define, write and implement improvement plans.
• Required
• Strong hands‑on experience with electrical systems, panels or instrumentation.
• Proven track record in fault finding and diagnosing complex hardware issues.
• Experience with PCB assemblies, wiring systems and integrated systems.
• Experience running or supporting FAT and system testing.
• Working knowledge of ISO‑driven quality processes.
• Strong fault‑finding mindset with structured thinking.
• Ability to break down complex system failures into root cause.
• Confident working hands‑on with hardware and electrical systems.
• Ability to read schematics, wiring diagrams and system layouts.
• Ability to read mechanical drawings.
• Direct and confident in challenging poor quality or repeated issues.
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