Senior Environmental Test Technician – Vibration & Climate Testing

RTX; Miami (FL); On-site; USD 108,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation Eligible

Job summary

RTX is seeking a Principal Environmental Test Technician for onsite work in Tucson, AZ with Environmental Test (ET) responsibilities across the product life cycle. You will set up and operate mechanical shock and electrodynamic vibration systems, program data acquisition, collect and verify test data, and ensure secure handling of classified materials.

Required is a university degree or equivalent, 8+ years in a product development lab with vibration shaker systems, instrumentation, and data

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…).

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 equipment operation

Data analysis

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 for onsite work in Tucson, AZ with Environmental Test (ET) responsibilities across the product life cycle. You will set up and operate mechanical shock and electrodynamic vibration systems, program data acquisition, collect and verify test data, and ensure secure handling of classified materials.

Required is a university degree or equivalent, 8+ years in a product development lab with vibration shaker systems, instrumentation, and data