Senior Environmental Test Engineer — Team Lead

RTX; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 108,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Benefits package

Job summary

RTX is seeking a Principal Test Engineer - Team Lead in Environmental Test (ET) to mentor a second shift team and lead complex environmental tests. You will design and execute tests, manage equipment setup and data acquisition, and troubleshoot test setups to meet customer requirements.

The role requires a STEM degree with 8+ years of relevant experience, experience with vibration shaker systems and data acquisition, and the ability to work in a fast-paced defense environment on-site in Tucson.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 8 years of prior relevant experience.
• Experience working with environmental test vibration shaker systems or instrumentation (accelerometers, thermocouples, strain gages, load cells, etc.) and data acquisition systems.

Responsibilities

• Consult and provide testing guidance to internal program customers and verify their proposed testing will meet the intended requirements.
• Write test plans and procedures that meet the requirements and safety of testing requested by internal program customers as well as review plans and procedures written by others.
• Oversee and personally conduct environmental testing to validate models for the purposes of new product qualification, production acceptance, flight test clearance, engineering evaluations, and failure investigations.
• Implement engineering best practices to ensure testing is performed accurately, on schedule, and within allowed budget.
• Analyze test data real time and posttest to validate requirements have been met in accordance with requirements.
• Communicate status of ongoing testing efforts with ET leadership and internal program customers.
• Design, model, and analyze vibration and structural test fixtures using CREO Parametric and Ansys Workbench.

Skills

Environmental testing

Instrumentation experience

Vibration testing

Education

STEM degree

Tools

Dewetron

DeweSoft

LabVIEW

Agilent/Keysight

BenchLink

Somat

Job description

RTX is seeking a Principal Test Engineer - Team Lead in Environmental Test (ET) to mentor a second shift team and lead complex environmental tests. You will design and execute tests, manage equipment setup and data acquisition, and troubleshoot test setups to meet customer requirements.

The role requires a STEM degree with 8+ years of relevant experience, experience with vibration shaker systems and data acquisition, and the ability to work in a fast-paced defense environment on-site in Tucson.