Test Engineer - Level 2 or Level 3

Northrop Grumman; United States; On-site; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Northrop Grumman's Space Sector is seeking a Test Engineer to join the MEP Team in Oxnard, CA. The role is 100% onsite with responsibilities spanning test design, execution, data reduction, and documentation. Levels 2 or 3 based on qualifications.

The candidate will collaborate across units, integrate testing tools, and support customer reviews while traveling ~10% and ensuring safety, quality, and cost objectives are met.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in STEM with 2 years of test experience or Master's in STEM.
• Experience troubleshooting test equipment, test tooling, and test harnesses.
• Experience with testing automation or lean manufacturing/testing methodologies.
• Demonstrated technical writing and/or procedure development skills.
• Ability to travel between Oxnard, CA, and Goleta, CA sites ~10%.

Responsibilities

• Perform product testing in coordination with the Operating Unit for test planning.
• Integrate products with test tooling, software, equipment, and instrumentation.
• Support test data collection, review, and reporting.
• Assist in creating test documentation and participate in reviews.
• Use modern tools to reduce cost and schedule of testing.

Skills

Test experience

Testing automation

Technical writing

Travel ability

US Citizenship

Education

Bachelor's Degree in STEM with 2 years of test experience

Master's Degree in STEM

Tools

LabVIEW

Test harnesses

Job description

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: No

CLEARANCE TYPE: None

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time Description

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work - and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

Northrop Grumman's Space Sector is seeking a Test Engineer - Level 2 or Level 3 to join our MEP Team in Oxnard, CA. This position is 100% onsite and cannot accommodate telecommute work.

Northrop Grumman Mission Enabling Products (MEP) Business Unit designs, builds, and delivers space, defense and aviation-related systems to customers around the world. Our main products include satellites and associated space components and services, launch vehicles and related propulsion systems, missile products, subsystems and defense electronics, precision weapons, armament systems, and advanced aerospace structures.

Learn more about Mission Enabling Products at our website: Mission Enabling Products | Northrop Grumman

As a test engineer, you will design, develop, and implement testing methods and equipment. You will plan and arrange the labor, schedules, and equipment required for testing and evaluating standard and special devices. You will compile data and define changes required in testing equipment, testing procedures, manufacturing processes, or new testing requirements. You will be responsible for testing all customer samples and for special tests that cannot be performed in the test area.

Job responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Perform product testing, working in close collaboration with all parts of the Operating Unit for the test planning, coordinating, setup, execution, data reduction, test reporting, and post-data processing.
• Perform integration of products to test tooling, software, equipment, and instrumentation.
• Support with test data collection, post-test data review, reporting, and support test requirements verification.
• Support technical writing to produce test documentation.
• Participate and present in internal and external (customer) reviews.
• Leverage modern tools and methods to reduce cost and schedule of product testing.
• Accountable to the Operating Unit Operations Test Engineering Manager for meeting the Operations Test Engineering safety, quality, delivery, and cost expectations of internal and external customers within entire product value streams.

Must be able to support working multiple shifts; ie: 1st shift 6am to 3:30pm and 2nd shift 2:30pm to Midnight

This requisition may be filled at either a Level 2 or Level 3 based on the qualifications listed below.

Basic Qualifications - Level 2:

• Bachelor's Degree in STEM discipline with 2 years of test experience; OR Master's Degree in STEM
• Experience troubleshooting test equipment, test tooling, and test harnesses.
• Experience with testing automation or other lean manufacturing/testing methodologies.
• Demonstrated technical writing and/or procedure development skills.
• Ability to travel between the Oxnard, CA, and Goleta, CA sites and travel to support customers, and needed, approximately 10%.
• U.S. Citizenship

Basic Qualifications - Level 3:

• Bachelor's Degree in STEM discipline with 5 years of test experience; OR Master's Degree in STEM with 2 years of test experience
• Experience troubleshooting test equipment, test tooling, and test harnesses.
• Experience with testing automation or other lean manufacturing/testing methodologies.
• Demonstrated technical writing and/or procedure development skills.
• Ability to travel between the Oxnard, CA, and Goleta, CA sites and travel to support customers, and needed, approximately 10%.
• U.S. Citizenship

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated proficiency in test automation software (i.e., LabVIEW or other) for product testing preferred.
• Demonstrated proficiency in measuring and controlling various electronic components such as motors, actuators, positional sensing devices, load transducers, etc is preferred.
• Experience in aerospace or aeronautical industry is preferred.
• Excellent communication skills - presentation, oral, written, and listening.
• Self-motivated with the ability to organize and prioritize job assignments and tasks.
• Ability to work independently as well as in an integrated team and adapt to change and dynamic requirement