Senior Electromechanical Engineer - Test Lab Lead (Secret)

Northrop Grumman; Redondo Beach (CA); On-site; USD 193,000 - 289,000; Full time

Job summary

Candidates will apply electrical, mechanical, and computer skills including requirements derivation, fixture design, test setup, PID tuning, PDR/CDR/TRR, and data analysis. Leadership and mentoring potential are expected.

Qualifications

• 14 years with a bachelor’s degree in STEM; 12 Years with Masters in STEM; 9 years with a Ph.D. in STEM
• 10 years direct hands-on experience with test, instrumentation & control engineering applications with Moog and/or MTS control system
• Ability to obtain US Government Secret or Top-Secret clearance.
• Ability to obtain and maintain Program Access (PAR) within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company to meet its business needs.
• Proficiency with Electromechanical/Instrumentation Engineering concepts and functions such as control system setup and tuning processes as well as basic data acquisition/signal conditioning principles
• Candidate must have familiarity with operating and the basic concepts pertaining to data acquisition and load control hardware as well as related instrumentation such as: LVDTs, Strain Gages, String Pots, Load Cells, etc.

Responsibilities

• Test Lifecycle Management - requirements derivation, Fixture Design, Fixture procurement and fabrication, test setup integration, test planning, support various gate reviews, test execution and test reporting.
• Contributes to the development, fabrication and assembly of mechanical and electromechanical components, sub-assemblies, systems, and full-scale test stands.
• Work with state of the art, load control and data acquisition systems to execute testing containing hundreds of load/position/pressure control channels while acquiring feedback /data from thousands of sensors.
• Hardware and instrumentation design, set-up, program, and operation, troubleshooting, data reduction, test report preparation/presentation and maintain load control and data acquisition systems.
• Plan and arrange for the equipment and personnel required to fulfill test requirements.
• Co-Author and publish test/instrumentation procedures, test reports and other documents as necessary to support the SOW.
• Participate in formal readiness reviews throughout all phases of testing.
• Participate in post-test data evaluation, issue identification, and resolutions.
• Set up, install, and troubleshoot all types of instrumentation (load cells, LVDTs, strain gages, string pots, thermocouples, etc.) and understand their associated functional concepts.

Skills

Test instrumentation

Data acquisition

Electrical & mechanical engineering

C syntax

LabVIEW

VBA programming

AutoCAD

CATIA

NX

Education

Bachelor’s degree in STEM

Master’s degree in STEM

Ph.D. in STEM

Tools

LabVIEW

AutoCAD

CATIA

NX

VBA

Job description

Candidates will apply electrical, mechanical, and computer skills including requirements derivation, fixture design, test setup, PID tuning, PDR/CDR/TRR, and data analysis. Leadership and mentoring potential are expected.