Test Engineer

Aerospace Test Engineer

Location: Merritt Island, FL

Salary: $40-48/hr

Industry: Aerospace/Manufacturing

Employment Type: Contract Until End-of-Year

Qualifications:

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• Minimum 2 years relevant engineering experience
• Experience with Hydraulics and/or Pneumatic Systems
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• High level of organization. Attention to detail and able to accurately and safely execute repetitive tasks.
• Ability to read and understand work orders and schematics to determine component type and connection needs for adapting to temp hardware.
• Ability to obtain fall protection certification and work/test at height.
• Nominal/Normal shift will be first shift, but must be able to work long hours and multiple shifts (including weekends) as required to support test operations.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Duties:

• Participate in gated test reviews.
• Work with design engineers to work testing and operability features in during the design phase of new systems/equipment.
• Develop test processes for integrated testing.
• Develop test methods to efficiently complete integrated system testing.
• Support development testing to reduce program risk.
• Develop procedures and software automation that will be used in launch operations.
• Write test procedures and manage procedural redlines and updates during test campaigns.
• Act as test engineer with overall responsibility for the test, the crew and the procedure.
• Enforce safety policies during test planning and operations.
• Troubleshoot issues that come up during testing.
• Reduce, analyze and archive test data to support verification tasks.
• Create verification plans.
• Mentor other test engineers.
• Strong focus on test safety.
• Transition of the planning documents and procedures into an operational environment for test execution.
• Support on-vehicle and subassembly off-vehicle test execution.
• Author common-use procedures for operation of Ground Support Equipment test panels and consoles.
• Execute Integrated Vehicle Systems Testing on vehicle.
• Execute subassembly and manifold testing off-vehicle.
• Commission, maintain, and track Ground Support Equipment and Temporary Test Hardware
• Author work orders for part cleaning, transport, assembly, and off-vehicle testing
• Operate Ground Support Equipment for commodity conditioning and sampling.
• Additional duties as assigned.

EOE/ADA

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