Senior Environmental Test Lead - Vibration & Structures

RTX; Dallas (TX); 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 in Environmental Test to mentor a small shift team and drive test campaigns across programs. You will design, execute, and troubleshoot environmental tests, analyze data, and ensure tests meet customer requirements.

The role requires a STEM degree and 8+ years of experience, familiarity with shaker systems, data acquisition, CREO Parametric, and Ansys Workbench; DoD secret or TS/SSBI clearance is preferred.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a STEM degree and 8+ years of experience.
• Experience with environmental test vibration shaker systems and instrumentation (accelerometers, thermocouples, strain gauges, 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.
• 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

CREO Parametric

Ansys Workbench

Test planning

Troubleshooting

Education

STEM degree

Tools

Dewetron

DeweSoft

LabVIEW

Agilent/Keysight

Benchlink

Somat

Job description

RTX in Tucson, AZ is seeking a Principal Test Engineer - Team Lead in Environmental Test to mentor a small shift team and drive test campaigns across programs. You will design, execute, and troubleshoot environmental tests, analyze data, and ensure tests meet customer requirements.

The role requires a STEM degree and 8+ years of experience, familiarity with shaker systems, data acquisition, CREO Parametric, and Ansys Workbench; DoD secret or TS/SSBI clearance is preferred.