Sr. Environmental Test Engineer 2nd Shift - Millennium Space Systems

About the role

Mission: Develop manufacturing processes for building, testing, and launching satellites while implementing test procedures for dynamic and thermal environmental testing of components, subsystems, and satellite products.

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) and typically 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.
• Familiarity with SMC-S-016, GSFC-STD-7000A, or similar environmental testing standards.
• Experience in a high-throughput manufacturing environment.
• Experience with PXI and other test instrumentation (i.e. thermocouples, accelerometers, DAQs etc.).
• Thorough understanding of root cause analysis and related analytical methodology (Five Whys, Fishbone/Ishikawa Analysis, 8D, etc.).

Qualifications

• Must be a U.S. citizen and eligible for a security clearance.
• Must be willing to apply for and maintain a security clearance.