Sr. Environmental Test Engineer 1st Shift - Millennium Space Systems

About the role

Mission: To develop manufacturing processes for building, testing, and launching satellites, while implementing test procedures for dynamic and thermal environmental testing.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary point of support for environmental test equipment and processes, and maintain responsibility over test execution for spacecraft hardware.
• Create spacecraft hardware test procedures, ensure test readiness, and unblock issues that arise during test campaigns (qualification and acceptance).
• Develop standard operating procedures for environmental test technicians.
• Establish and increase the efficiency of manufacturing test processes to maximize output, limit burden, and enable products to rapidly transition from engineering development to high rate production.
• Identify improvement opportunities and execute initiatives to maintain safe operations, ensure product quality, reduce lead time/labor hours, etc. through environmental test.
• Identify, implement, and qualify environmental test equipment and processes in support of high reliability and throughput production.
• Troubleshoot and identify root cause of issues in environmental test processes (i.e. due to spacecraft hardware defects, test equipment anomalies, software problems, etc.), then implement permanent corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
• Enable production autonomy by challenging requirements, simplifying work processes, and implementing automation.
• Develop test equipment automation to improve efficiency of environmental test processes, limit the likelihood of error, and maximize throughput.

Requirements

• Education/experience typically acquired through advanced technical education from an accredited course of study in engineering, engineering technology (includes manufacturing engineering technology), computer science, engineering data science, mathematics, physics or chemistry (e.g. Bachelor).
• 5 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of technical education and experience or non-US equivalent qualifications.
• Experience working with thermal chambers, TVAC chambers, and/or vibration shakers.
• Experience in authoring test procedures and implementing process improvements.

Qualifications

• Experience in a high-throughput manufacturing environment.
• Familiarity with SMC-S-016, GSFC-STD-7000A, or similar environmental testing standards.
• Experience in successfully qualifying new products for space applications.
• A thorough understanding of root cause analysis and related analytical methodology (Five Whys, Fishbone/Ishikawa Analysis, 8D, etc.).

Skills

• Excellent written, verbal communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Managing UUT non-conformances.

Benefits

• Competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.
• Various benefit programs, including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and paid and unpaid time away from work.

Pay

• Pay range for Level 3: $111,350 - $163,750
• Pay range for Level 4: $135,150 - $198,750

Schedule

Shift: Shift 1 (United States of America)

Benefits

• Relocation assistance is not a negotiable benefit for this position.
• The position is located at a facility that requires special access.