ID&C Engineering Technical Specialist

Beyond New Horizons; Manchester (TN); On-site; USD 85,000 - 143,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Continuing education assistance

Healthcare benefits

401K with employer matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Beyond New Horizons, LLC (BNH) supports AEDC at Arnold AFB, TN, providing ID&C engineering technical support for test operations. The role involves instrumentation, data acquisition, and control systems across PWT and VKF facilities to enable high-speed testing of aircraft, space launch vehicles, and missiles.

The selected candidate will work with ID&C staff, engineers, and test teams, ensuring reliable measurements and compliance with safety and procedural standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years (L08) or 8+ years (L09) of relevant experience.
• Must obtain and maintain AEDC security clearance.
• U.S. Citizenship required.

Responsibilities

• Perform test support for data, control, and instrumentation systems per requirements.
• Analyze instrumentation and data during test operations to ensure specs.
• Maintain TMDE inventory and calibration records.
• Provide ID&C support services to the test team.
• Wear PPE as required.

Skills

Instrumentation

Data acquisition

Test operations

Engineering support

Security clearance

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

TMDE inventory management

ITEC duties

Job description

Job Title: ID&C Engineering Technical Specialist

Location: Arnold AFB, TN

Job Family Code: O - Engineering

Function/Branch: Engineering/ID&C

Directorate: Engineering & Tech Support

Position Type: Regular, Full-Time

Pay Type: Exempt

Grade: L08 (XA0805) - L09 (XA0905)

Salary Range: L08: $85,000 - $117,000; L09: $104,000 - $143,000 / year

Overview

Beyond New Horizons, LLC (BNH) has an exciting opportunity for an ID&C Engineering Technical Specialist supporting TOS II, at Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC) at Arnold AFB, TN. The Engineering Technical Specialist will work as a member of an integrated team responsible for operating and maintaining the United States Air Force Test Operations efforts at AEDC.

This position requires occasional scheduled extended hours and/or weekend work to meet critical contractual requirements and rare unscheduled night or weekend support in emergency situations.

Job Summary

The individual hired in this position will serve in a support role to Instrumentation, Data & Control (ID&C) Engineering staff. The individual selected for this role will work alongside ID&C test operations engineers supporting test operations, system/maintenance engineering, and design engineering for systems used across the Propulsion Wind Tunnel (PWT) and Von Kármán Gas Dynamics (VKF) facilities, ensuring reliable data acquisition spanning transonic, supersonic, and hypersonic regimes. Your work will directly enable the successful evaluation of large-scale aircraft, space launch vehicles, and high-speed missiles utilizing cutting-edge diagnostic technologies such as Captive Trajectory Support (CTS) and Pressure Sensitive Paint (PSP). Core responsibilities of this role include providing support for instrumentation and data acquisition systems used to make complex and highly accurate physical measurements of parameters associated with the article under test and the test facility.

This ID&C Engineering Technical Specialist position will be deployed to the Propulsion Wind Tunnel (PWT) and von Kármán Gas Dynamics (VKF) facilities; however, ID&C Engineering Technical Specialists may be reassigned to other areas based on workload demands and mission needs. ID&C Engineering Technical Specialists may also support multiple test areas/facilities as required.

Job Duties

• Select and apply standard methods, techniques, procedures and criteria, using independent judgment in making adaptations and modifications.
• Independently perform test support project assignments associated with the setup and configuration of data, control, and instrumentation systems per test customer requirements; company standards, procedures, and work instructions; generalized senior engineer and/or supervisor direction: and other precedents of the discipline.
• Participate in one or more of the following:
  • Assign instrumentation and control test requirements into available systems and patching. Ensure test cell hook-up limits are not exceeded. Coordinate with engineering and test-customer to define requirements within facility capability.
  • Coordinate and assist in development, review, approval and vaulting of ID&C related work instructions.
  • Analyze and/or evaluate instrumentation, data and/or control system operation during test operations based upon techniques prescribed by senior engineers or supervisors to ensure that systems are functioning to specifications during test operations.
  • Respond to and resolve ID&C discrepancies as they arise during test operations. Report problems to senior engineering staff and management. Communicate root cause and resolution of lost time events and other issues affecting test operations to company management personnel and test team members.
  • Communicate root cause and resolution of lost time events and other issues affecting test operations to company management personnel and test team members.
  • Maintain the inventory of Test Measurement & Diagnostic Equipment (TMDE) required for test operations in the assigned facility. Includes managing the inventory and maintaining location and calibration records to ensure that the required TMDE is available and calibrated when required for test operations.
  • Perform Information Technology Equipment Custodian Duties (ITEC) for the assigned facility’s IT equipment.
  • Provide other ID&C related support services to the test team as required to meet test operations requirements.
• Monitor and report progress for own assigned work tasks.
• It is a condition of employment to wear company issued PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) in accordance with supervisory direction and company policy.
• Perform other related duties as required.

Basic Qualifications

• L08: Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience.
• L09: Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience.
• Any equivalent combination of relevant vocational or other relevant education and/or training and specialized progressive experience can be substituted.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a security clearance and access to the AEDC local area network.
• Current U. S. Citizenship required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Active DoD secret or higher-level security clearance
• Demonstrated experience in the application of transducers, sensors, electrical circuits, signal processing, and data acquisition systems used to measure temperature, pressure, force, flow, acceleration, vibration, and other physical phenomena common to aerospace systems testing.
• Demonstrated written and oral communication and group presentation skills.

What We Offer

• Competitive salaries
• Continuing education assistance
• Multiple healthcare benefits packages
• 401K with employer matching
• Paid time off (PTO) along with a federally recognized holiday schedule

Who We Are

Beyond New Horizons (BNH) is a fully populated joint venture of Astrion and Fluor Federal Services, Inc. formed to provide unmatched Test Operations and Sustainment services for the Arnold Engineering Development Complex.

We chose our name to serve as an enduring reminder of our commitment to AEDC’s rich aerospace research and development legacy anchored in AEDC’s Toward New Horizons founding study and the unprecedented opportunities to greatly expand AEDC’s capabilities and capacity Beyond those existing today. Leveraging the capabilities of our parent companies, BNH specializes in testing and evaluation for military and space systems combined with proven capability in large-scale Government program management, integration, engineering, and construction services for specialized and technically advanced high-hazard facilities.

Join our Team!

U.S. Citizenship is required. At this time BNH will not sponsor any applicants for employment authorization or offer any immigration related support for this position (i.e. H1b, F1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, J-1, E-2, E-3, L-1, or other forms of work authorization that require immigration support from an employer).

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations and refers to the amount BNH is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time jobs will be adjusted based upon the number of hours agreed to work at the Tennessee location.

L08: $85,000 - $117,000; L09: $104,000 - $143,000 / year at Arnold Air Force, TN.

BNH is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, veteran status, and any other grounds for discrimination prohibited by applicable law.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.