Senior Environmental Test Engineer, Vibration & Structures

RTX; Provo (UT); On-site; USD 87,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

RTX is seeking a Senior Environmental Test Engineer in Tucson, AZ, to lead vibration and structural testing across programs. The role requires coordinating test plans, executing tests, and analyzing data to verify customer requirements are met.

Collaboration with IP teams and internal customers is essential to deliver reliable test results. Experience with vibration shakers, data acquisition, and test fixture design is required.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 5 years of prior relevant experience.
• 3 years of experience working in a product development lab with vibration shaker systems and/or with instrumentation (accelerometers, thermocouples, strain gages, load cells, etc…) and data acquisition systems (Dewetron, DeweSoft, LabView, Agilent/Keysight, Benchlink, Somat, etc…).

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 post-test 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

Vibration testing

Instrumentation experience

Data acquisition systems

Education

STEM degree

Tools

Dewetron

DeweSoft

LabVIEW

Keysight

Job description

RTX is seeking a Senior Environmental Test Engineer in Tucson, AZ, to lead vibration and structural testing across programs. The role requires coordinating test plans, executing tests, and analyzing data to verify customer requirements are met.

Collaboration with IP teams and internal customers is essential to deliver reliable test results. Experience with vibration shakers, data acquisition, and test fixture design is required.