Senior Environmental Test Engineer & Team Lead (2nd Shift)

RTX; Arizona; On-site; USD 108,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

RTX in Tucson, AZ is seeking a Principal Test Engineer - Team Lead for Environmental Test to mentor a small team and run second-shift environmental testing activities. You will design, execute, and analyze vibration and structural tests, ensuring designs meet customer requirements and internal standards.

The role requires leading test planning, data analysis, and cross-functional collaboration with IP teams, while advancing engineering best practices.

Qualifications

• Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) with 8+ years of experience.
• Experience with environmental test vibration shaker systems or instrumentation 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. Also create schedules and budgets for all testing.
• 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

Vibration testing

Data acquisition

Test planning

Education

STEM degree (B.S.)

Tools

Dewetron

DeweSoft

LabVIEW

Agilent/Keysight

Benchlink

Somat

Job description

RTX in Tucson, AZ is seeking a Principal Test Engineer - Team Lead for Environmental Test to mentor a small team and run second-shift environmental testing activities. You will design, execute, and analyze vibration and structural tests, ensuring designs meet customer requirements and internal standards.

The role requires leading test planning, data analysis, and cross-functional collaboration with IP teams, while advancing engineering best practices.