Senior Environmental Test Tech: Vibration & Climate

RTX; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 108,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

RTX is seeking a Principal Environmental Test Technician in Environmental Test. This onsite role is located in Tucson, AZ, and focuses on executing environmental tests, test setup, data collection, and troubleshooting while safeguarding classified material.

You will collaborate with an IP team to meet customer requirements and ensure secure handling of hardware and documentation. Qualifications include a university degree with 8+ years in vibration/shaker systems and instrumentation, plus DoD

Qualifications

• Typically requires a University Degree or equivalent experience and a minimum 8 years prior relevant experience.
• 5 years 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…).
• Active and Transferable DoD Secret or TS/SSBI clearance
• An advanced degree in Engineering Technology.
• Experience in a Test Engineering Support capacity.
• High situational awareness and ability to effectively work multiple projects simultaneously.

Responsibilities

• Perform set-up and operation of mechanical shock test and electrodynamic vibration test systems.
• Perform set-up and operation of climatic environmental chambers in support of testing for temperature, altitude, and humidity and highly accelerated life tests.
• Perform set-up and programming of all control and data acquisition systems as well as the placement, and operation of all instrumentation, signal conditioning, and data acquisition systems.
• Perform the execution of various vibration test methods including random, sine, shock, sine-on-random, random-on-random and drop shock, as defined in Mil-Std-810.
• Collect thermal, vibration, and shock test data and verify for accuracy.
• Safeguarding of classified/proprietary material, hardware, and documentation.
• Ability to work in closed/proprietary/classified areas.

Skills

Vibration testing

Test data collection

Instrumentation basics

Troubleshooting

Education

University Degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Dewetron

DeweSoft

LabVIEW

Agilent/Keysight

Benchlink

Somat

Job description

RTX is seeking a Principal Environmental Test Technician in Environmental Test. This onsite role is located in Tucson, AZ, and focuses on executing environmental tests, test setup, data collection, and troubleshooting while safeguarding classified material.

You will collaborate with an IP team to meet customer requirements and ensure secure handling of hardware and documentation. Qualifications include a university degree with 8+ years in vibration/shaker systems and instrumentation, plus DoD