Test Engineer III

About the role

Crane Aerospace and Electronics has an exciting opportunity for a Test Engineer III at our Lynnwood, WA location. This is an on-site position. Crane Aerospace & Electronics supplies critical systems and components to the aerospace and defense markets.

Our Crane Aerospace & Electronics Lynnwood, Wash., facility delivers industry-leading aerospace & defense power and fluid solutions. Our products are rugged enough to fly 5 billion miles from Earth on NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft. You’ll join a group of aerospace professionals committed to engineering excellence and work in a community tucked between the idyllic Puget Sound and Cascade Mountains.

Responsibilities

As a Test Engineer III, you’ll design, develop, maintain, troubleshoot, and improve Automated Test Equipment (ATE) used to support a wide variety of aerospace and electronic products. The Test Engineer III works on new product designs, modernization, and upgrades, as well as performs extensive analyses to ensure cost, quality, and customer requirements.

• Work effectively with all functional groups to achieve product performance and cost targets.
• Build quality and manufacturability into the design.
• Define/understand/comply with company and regulatory guidelines to assure a safe operating environment.
• Support continuous process improvement activities including Kaizen, 5S practices to ensure an organized and efficient working environment, and personal development.
• Demonstrate proficiency with verbal and written English for technical reports, presentations, analyses, or other communications at the appropriate level throughout the organization.
• Understand, decompose, and define product and process requirements to support product development, sustaining and R&D.
• Plan, estimate, prioritize, and manage work activities to support meeting project schedules and budgets.
• Utilize experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
• Produce thorough and accurate design and development work of suitable complexity that meets all customer specifications and company requirements for schedule, cost, producibility, quality, and reliability.
• Utilize proficient problem solving processes, documentation, tools and analyses to quickly and effectively identify root cause and corrective actions to technical challenges and/or issue in support of product development and product sustaining assignments.
• Generate and review product development documentation including proposals, technical reports, procedures, correspondence, etc. necessary to satisfy customer and program requirements.
• Self-directed and motivated while working and communicating effectively within a team environment that consists of several engineering, operations, quality, and business disciplines.
• Provide support of IPT activities in collaboration with other technical, operations, quality, and business disciplines.
• Effectively lead and manage a multifunctional team to accomplish safety, quality, schedule and cost goals in relation to capital test engineering projects up to $500,000.
• Design test equipment hardware and software, select and procure equipment necessary to obtain desired results and accuracy, integrate and/or build automated test systems of medium to high complexity.
• Design, code and debug computer/data acquisition systems necessary for automated testing in National Instruments’ LabVIEW, TestStand or similar software.
• Perform calculations to establish test equipment specifications, design margins, test setup, and test limits.
• Anticipate and mitigate unexpected and potentially hazardous events that could occur during a test.
• Generate test procedures from specifications.

Requirements

• 5 years of relevant work experience.
• BA or BS Degree in an engineering discipline.
• Hardware design experience including Analog Circuit Design and Digital Circuit Design.
• Microprocessor / Microcontroller design.
• Automated test system design, and programming of data acquisition systems.
• Software development and verification.
• Product/equipment requirements development, requirements analysis/verification and test procedures development.
• Configuration management in a regulated environment.

Skills

• Ability to direct test programs (maintain schedules, contain costs, design test systems, analyzing data, directing technicians and other supporting technical personnel, etc.).
• Ability to generate engineering schematics and diagrams.
• LabVIEW, TestStand, or similar system-design platforms.
• SPICE, CADs, Schematic Design and PWB Layout.
• Troubleshooting, failure analysis.
• Communication Interfaces (e.g. ARINC429, CAN, RS232, I2C ...).

Qualifications

This position may require access to Controlled Data or Information. Where the position requires such access only US Persons will be considered. As a US Department of Defense contractor, we are bound by International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR).

• Preferred experience in a regulated industry and fast pace environment.
• Masters or PhD.
• National Instruments’ LabVIEW certification.
• Interested in using LabVIEW within the ALOHA Application Framework.
• Experience with manufacturing environment.

Working Conditions

Standard office environment. Working conditions are normal for a manufacturing environment. Manufacturing operations may require the use of safety equipment to include but not limited to: eye safety glasses, gowning, masks, hearing protectors, heel/wrist straps and any other required PPE.

• May be exposed to unusual environmental conditions such as loud noises, cold temperatures, confined spaces, dust or fumes.
• Requires work with small to medium size hand and power tools.
• Occasional travel to customer and outside test lab facilities for technical interchange meetings, design reviews, product testing support, and attend technical seminars.
• May need to travel domestically and internationally (up to 10%).
• Standing: 10%.
• Sitting: 90%.
• Lifting (in pounds): up to 20 pounds.
• Pushing (in pounds): up to 20 pounds.

Benefits

• Health care, dental, vision, life and disability insurance starting the first day of the month.
• Time Off: 15 days of paid time off that start accruing your first day at Crane and 12 paid holidays per year.
• 401k Retirement Plan: 401k plan with company match.
• Education Reimbursement: eligible after 6 months of employment.

Pay

Salary Range: $119,900 - $138,300 Annual USD. Several factors contribute to actual salary, including experience in a similar role or performing comparable job responsibilities, skills, training, and other qualifications. Some roles may be eligible for participation in performance-based bonus program.