Test Operations Supervisor

Job Summary

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) is a world leader in remotely piloted aircraft and tactical reconnaissance radars. They are seeking a Test Operations leader at their High Desert Flight Operations Facility. The role involves managing and coordinating activities to ensure the safe and effective operation of customer fleets, providing a quality test environment, and maintaining cost and schedule.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Manage and coordinate the planning, scheduling, and activities of Test Operations personnel to achieve company and customer objectives safely and effectively.
• Manage and schedule daily work assignments ensuring consistent personnel are available to support medium-to-long term test programs.
• Leading cross-functional team to ensure unmanned aircraft system software and hardware is properly configured to meet test objectives. This includes collaboration with internal and external customer engineering teams.
• Providing high-level technical assistance to test and sustainment teams in troubleshooting highly complex systems.
• Track and Document test performance, providing feedback to internal and external customers.
• Develop processes to improve consistency and reliability of test execution methods employed across multiple customer platforms.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a Bachelors degree in a related technical field and nine or more years of progressive professional experience in manufacturing processes and procedures, planning, scheduling, and budget management with at least three of those years leading manufacturing processes and/or personnel.
• Must demonstrate a strong technical understanding of airframe and powerplant or avionics principles and practices.
• Must have proven project management and leadership skills, including organizing, planning, scheduling, and coordinating workloads to meet established deadlines or milestones.
• Must have the ability to identify issues, analyze and interpret data and develop innovative solutions to a variety of complex problems and strong analytical, verbal and written communication skills to accurately document, report, and present findings to a variety of audiences.
• May be required to represent the company on external projects, work extended hours, and travel as needed.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Security Clearance is required.