Senior Environmental Test Team Lead – Onsite, Clearance Ready

RTX; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 108,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Short-term disability

Long-term disability

401(k) match

Flexible spending accounts

Parental leave

Paid time off

Holidays

Job summary

RTX, a leading aerospace and defense company, seeks a Principal Test Engineer - Team Lead in Environmental Test (ET) at US Tucson site. You will mentor a small team on second shift, executing diverse environmental tests and designing test setups to meet customer requirements.

The role requires a STEM degree with 8+ years of experience, experience with vibration shaker systems and data acquisition, and familiarity with CREO Parametric and ANSYS Workbench.

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 and instrumentation and data acquisition systems (accelerometers, thermocouples, strain gauges, data acquisition software).
• Knowledge of CREO Parametric and Ansys Workbench is preferred.

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

Instrumentation

Data acquisition

CREO Parametric

ANSYS Workbench

Test planning

Education

STEM degree

Tools

CREO Parametric

Ansys Workbench

Dewetron/DeweSoft

LabVIEW

Job description

RTX, a leading aerospace and defense company, seeks a Principal Test Engineer - Team Lead in Environmental Test (ET) at US Tucson site. You will mentor a small team on second shift, executing diverse environmental tests and designing test setups to meet customer requirements.

The role requires a STEM degree with 8+ years of experience, experience with vibration shaker systems and data acquisition, and familiarity with CREO Parametric and ANSYS Workbench.