Director Test Engineering

Job Description

Director, Test Engineering
The Morey Corporation is a leading electronics manufacturing and IoT technology company that helps some of the world’s most recognizable brands connect machines, vehicles, and equipment to the cloud. For more than 90 years, we’ve built a reputation for engineering excellence, manufacturing quality, and solving complex problems.
Today, Morey designs and manufactures advanced electronic controls, telematics devices, IoT platforms, and connected solutions for customers across industries including heavy equipment, transportation, industrial, and off-highway markets. Our work helps customers monitor equipment, improve performance, reduce downtime, and make smarter business decisions through connected technology.

Lead, coach, and develop an initial team of four Test Engineers and 5 Test Technicians; Own the manufacturing test strategy and roadmap for new and existing products,
including test architecture, platform standardization, automation, data strategy
obsolescence planning, and scalability.
Work as part of a cross-functional team to ensure timely design, development, validation, deployment, and production release of manufacturing test solutions for new product introduction (NPI)
Provide technical leadership for test hardware and software using C#, C/CVI, NI TestStand, LabVIEW, test instrumentation, fixtures, databases, and interfaces to units under test.
Hold design standards, documentation requirements, peer-review practices, configuration control, source control, and change-management disciplines for test solutions.
Partner with Program Management and functional leaders to define project scope, resource plans, schedules, risks, deliverables, and launch-readiness criteria; Collaborate with Manufacturing Engineering, Quality, Production, and Operations to integrate test systems into production processes and support safe, repeatable, operator-friendly execution.
prioritize downtime response, preventive maintenance, spare strategy, duplication needs, and business-continuity risks.
Use test data and production feedback to improve first-pass yield, test coverage, cycle time, false-failure rates, repeatability, and overall manufacturing performance.
Lead or support root-cause investigations involving yield loss, intermittent failures, customer returns, and field issues; Develop the annual test-engineering operating and capital plan; build business cases, manage budgets, and make sound build-versus-buy and technology-investment decisions.
Build productive relationships with customers, suppliers, contract partners, and internal stakeholders; Maintain compliance with applicable safety, quality-system, customer, regulatory, and cybersecurity requirements related to production test systems and test data.
Create and report meaningful performance indicators for the test function, including project delivery, NPI readiness, test uptime, yield, cycle time, coverage, escapes, and improvement impact.
Sets functional priorities and allocates Test Engineering resources across customer programs, production support, and improvement work.
Approves technical approaches and production release readiness for test solutions; establishes when risks require additional investment or escalation.
Develops engineers through regular coaching, performance feedback, technical review, succession planning, and targeted skill development.
Represents Test Engineering in operating reviews, NPI reviews, customer discussions, quality investigations, and strategic planning.
Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Engineering Technology, or a related technical field; 5+ years of progressive experience in manufacturing test engineering, electrical engineering, or a closely related discipline, preferably in electronics or applicable industries.
~ Min 1+ year of people-leadership or technical-leadership experience, including responsibility for prioritization, coaching, project execution, and cross-functional influence.
~ Demonstrated experience delivering production test systems from requirements and quotation through design, validation, deployment, and sustained support.
~ Strong working knowledge of C#, Python, NI TestStand, and LabVIEW, with the ability to evaluate architecture and guide troubleshooting even when not writing code.
~ Experience with production-test instrumentation, fixtures, hardware/software integration, database-driven test systems, and interpretation of MySQL schemas and queries.
~ Proven ability to lead multiple concurrent projects, manage capital and operating priorities, communicate risk, and deliver results in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
~ Strong written, verbal, and executive-level communication skills, including the ability to work effectively with customers, suppliers, operators, engineers, and senior leaders.

‘Experience developing production tests for RF-enabled devices, including cellular, GPS/GNSS, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi.
Working knowledge of MSA, Six Sigma, SPC, root-cause analysis, lean manufacturing, and structured continuous-improvement methods.
Experience in a regulated or customer-audited manufacturing environment and with electronics manufacturing quality systems.
Experience standardizing test platforms, managing legacy-system obsolescence, and using test data to guide operational and business decisions.
Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, and Google Workspace.

This is a full-time, exempt position based on-site in Woodridge, Illinois. The role regularly works in engineering, office, laboratory, and electronics manufacturing and must be able to respond to production and launch priorities.