Precision Test Specialist – Quality & Validation in Merthyr Tydfil

This role ensures that all units are tested, inspected, and verified to meet engineering specifications, quality standards, and customer requirements prior to delivery. Working closely with Production, Engineering, and Quality teams, the Test Specialist plays a key role in ensuring product integrity, compliance, and on‑time delivery.

Responsibilities

• Support test planning and readiness in line with production schedules and project timelines.
• Review and contribute to test plans, procedures, and work instructions.
• Execute in‑process, system‑level, and final acceptance testing (FAT) on assembled units.
• Conduct mechanical, electrical, and integrated system testing.
• Perform product inspections, fault finding, and diagnostics, ensuring clear reporting of issues.
• Identify, raise, and support resolution of non‑conformances (NCRs).
• Ensure all products meet defined quality gates before progression or delivery.
• Maintain accurate test records, certification packs, and traceability documentation.
• Communicate test progress, issues, and results to key stakeholders.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives across test and production processes.
• Assist with internal and external audits, ensuring compliance with standards and procedures.
• Maintain and calibrate test equipment and instrumentation.
• Ensure adherence to 5S and housekeeping standards within the test environment.
• Support shift‑based working where required (including day/night rotation).
• Promote and comply with Health, Safety, and Environmental (HSE) requirements.
• Ensure compliance with all legal, statutory, and contractual obligations.

Qualifications

• Cross‑functional exposure to Production, Quality, or Systems Engineering, enabling potential moves into Production, Quality, or Systems Engineering roles.
• Experience within a manufacturing or production environment.
• Background in testing assembled systems, machinery, or containerised units.
• Experience working to production schedules and delivery targets.
• Knowledge of industry standards and quality frameworks (e.g., ISO 9001).
• Experience assembling, connecting, and operating test instrumentation.
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.

Technical Skills and Qualifications

• Ability to interpret engineering drawings, schematics, and technical specifications.
• Experience with system‑level testing (mechanical, electrical, or integrated systems).
• Strong understanding of production testing and quality control processes.
• Ability to analyse and interpret test data and results.
• Experience with Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) and inspection processes.
• Knowledge of non‑conformance reporting (NCR) and root cause analysis.
• Familiarity with a wide range of test equipment and instrumentation.
• Good mechanical and/or electrical aptitude.

Marshall Land Systems is a Canadian‑owned global company with an unrivalled pedigree of British engineering excellence. From its origins in Cambridge, UK, through more than a century of innovation, pioneering advances from the nose of Concorde to the early Hydrogen fuel cell technology that ultimately powered the moon landings, Marshall engineers now continue to innovate specialist vehicles and infrastructure for NATO forces across the world. From bomb disposal vehicles to deployed shelters, from command and control to CT scanners on the battlefield, Marshall Land Systems protects people in critical situations with the very best in engineering. It employs 600 people with major facilities in the UK, Canada, and the Netherlands.