Senior Environmental Test Engineer - Vibration (Tucson)

RTX

San Jose (CA)

On-site

USD 87,000 - 165,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

RTX’s Environmental Test (ET) team in Tucson, AZ seeks a Senior Environmental Test Engineer to execute vibration and structural tests, design fixtures, and analyze data within an IP-team. You will lead test design, setup, monitoring, and troubleshooting for customer-driven requirements.

The role requires a STEM degree with 5+ years in a lab, experience with shaker systems and test instrumentation, and CREO/Ansys skills.

Qualifications

Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 5 years of prior relevant experience unless prohibited by local laws/ regulations.
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.