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Job Description
Assist engineers in determining the practicality of proposed product design changes and plan and carry out tests on experimental test devices or equipment for performance, durability, or efficiency.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 17-3027.01
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Automotive Engineering Technicians”.
Also Known As…
- Automotive Engineering Technicians
- Test Engineer
- Research Technician
- Laboratory Technician (Lab Technician)
- Engineering Team Supervisor
- Emissions Engineer
- Durability Technician
- Automotive Engineering Technician
- Auto Design Checker
Tasks for “Test Engineer”
- Analyze performance of vehicles or components that have been redesigned to increase fuel efficiency, such as camless or dual-clutch engines or alternative types of air-conditioning systems.
- Document test results, using cameras, spreadsheets, documents, or other tools.
- Read and interpret blueprints, schematics, work specifications, drawings, or charts.
- Improve fuel efficiency by testing vehicles or components that use lighter materials, such as aluminum, magnesium alloy, or plastic.
- Analyze test data for automotive systems, subsystems, or component parts.
- Inspect or test parts to determine nature or cause of defects or malfunctions.
- Maintain test equipment in operational condition by performing routine maintenance or making minor repairs or adjustments as needed.
- Participate in research or testing of computerized automotive applications, such as telemetrics, intelligent transportation systems, artificial intelligence, or automatic control.
- Build instrumentation or laboratory test equipment for special purposes.
- Fabricate new or modify existing prototype components or fixtures.
- Test performance of vehicles that use alternative fuels, such as alcohol blends, natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, biodiesel, nano diesel, or alternative power methods, such as solar energy or hydrogen fuel cells.
- Install equipment, such as instrumentation, test equipment, engines, or aftermarket products, to ensure proper interfaces.
- Perform or execute manual or automated tests of automotive system or component performance, efficiency, or durability.
- Monitor computer-controlled test equipment, according to written or verbal instructions.
- Set up mechanical, hydraulic, or electric test equipment in accordance with engineering specifications, standards, or test procedures.
- Recommend product or component design improvements, based on test data or observations.
- Recommend tests or testing conditions in accordance with designs, customer requirements, or industry standards to ensure test validity.
- Order new test equipment, supplies, or replacement parts.
Related Technology & Tools
- Vibration testers
- Metal inert gas MIG welders
- Leakage testers
- Engine lathes
- High-vacuum tensile testing chambers
- Calipers
- Compression testers
- Pin gauges
- Oscilloscopes
- Crack detection equipment
- Computer numerical controlled CNC milling machines
- Timing lights
- Frequency counters
- Flow benches
- Electronic engine analyzers
- Chassis dynamometers
- Multimeters
- Ignition oscilloscopes
- Plasma cutters
- Function generators
- Exhaust gas analyzers
- Force gauges
- Tungsten inert gas TIG welding equipment
- Environmental chambers
- Computerized numerical control CNC turning centers
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Excel
- IBM Notes
- Microsoft Word
- Computer aided design CAD software
- Autodesk Inventor
- National Instruments LabVIEW
- Computer aided manufacturing CAM software
- Autodesk AutoCAD Mechanical
- Data acquisition software
- Road simulators
- SAP
- PTC Creo Parametric