Test Engineer at Star International Holdings – Smithville, Tennessee

At Star Holdings Group, we are passionate about innovation and driven by design. As a leader in commercial kitchen equipment, we are committed to delivering high-performance products that meet our customers' evolving needs.

The Test Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and executing testing processes to ensure the quality and functionality of commercial cooking products. This role involves developing test plans, creating automated test scripts, and conducting performance and usability testing. The objective is to identify and resolve defects early in the development cycle, contributing to the delivery of reliable and high-quality cooking products that meet customer and business requirements.

Duties and responsibilities

• Owns overall leadership for component and product approval process throughout the NPD gate process as needed for start of production
• Develop, manage and execute test plans, procedures, and scenarios to evaluate product performance against requirements.
  • Work with engineers to design tests including sampling, success criteria and pass/fail approvals based on design and stage gates
• Lead and mentor engineers through the design review process, DFMEAs and PFMEA’s, components, product, agency, field testing, etc.
• Lead the use of design Six Sigma tools for testing as appropriate to improve design robustness, reliability and performance (i.e. product maps, factors and levels, DOE, MSE/GR&R, etc.)
• Develop component and subsystem level tests to improve design robustness, improve quality while accelerating project production dates.
• Mentor and lead engineering and company problem solving tools and methods (DMAIC, ICOV, etc.) Performs tests, analyzes results, and identifies defects or issues.
• Keeps abreast of industry advancements and best practices in testing.
• Prepares machines for test and evaluation from instructions, sketches, prints, and / or test requests.
• Builds, maintains, and acquires data from life test fixtures.
• Maintains safe operation of the test room facilities.
• Identifies necessary parts, materials, and supplies and initiates replenishment.

Qualifications

• 4-year degree in related field or 10 years of experience in a Test Engineer role.
• Experience with tools for measuring, testing and analyzing product performance.
• Skills using data acquisition systems, LabView or other similar software.
• Ability to use Microsoft Excel and other data analysis tools to manipulate and analyze data sets.
• Solid mechanical background using hand tools, electrical and cooking gas knowledge.
• Able to read, interpret, and follow industry standards, UL, NSF, CSA.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Experience with reading drawings and other engineering documents.
• Fundamental understanding of Engineering principles.
• Self-directed and highly motivated.

Working conditions

This position will be based in a model shop/lab setting, it will require a hands-on approach. Prototyping and testing will result in the operation of tools in the model shop environment.

Physical requirements

Will be required to lift 30lbs occasionally, as manufacturing is supported.