Senior Vibration & Structural Test Engineer

Prattwhitney; Tucson (AZ); 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 Environmental Test Engineer to lead vibration and structural testing for environmental qualification efforts. This on-site role supports IP teams, designs test setups, collects data, and analyzes results to ensure requirements are met.

The position requires a STEM degree with 8+ years in a development lab, proficiency in CREO Parametric and Ansys Workbench, and experience with data acquisition systems.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a STEM degree and 8+ years in a product development lab.
• Experience with vibration shaker systems and instrumentation and data acquisition.

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 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

Vibration testing

Structural testing

Data acquisition

CREO Parametric

Ansys Workbench

Accelerometers

LabVIEW

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

CREO Parametric

Ansys Workbench

Dewetron

DeweSoft

LabVIEW

Benchlink

Somat

Job description

RTX in Tucson, AZ is seeking a Principal Environmental Test Engineer to lead vibration and structural testing for environmental qualification efforts. This on-site role supports IP teams, designs test setups, collects data, and analyzes results to ensure requirements are met.

The position requires a STEM degree with 8+ years in a development lab, proficiency in CREO Parametric and Ansys Workbench, and experience with data acquisition systems.