Air Vehicle Engineer - Flight Test Integration
About The Position
At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history. The Flight Test Operations Team (FTO) is seeking a highly qualified Air Vehicle Engineer (AVE) to lead integrated test scheduling and program planning at Edwards AFB, CA. The Air Vehicle Engineer will report to the Flight Test Integration Senior Manager and work with multiple test disciplines in a Combined Test Force (CTF) environment to plan flight science, subsystems, and mission system testing on multiple developmental aircraft. The AVE will be assigned to a single test asset and will work closely with the corresponding maintenance manager and flight operations commander to develop an integrated test schedule.
Requirements
- Must have a Bachelor of Science degree in a STEM discipline AND 5years of related professional/military experience, OR a Master's degree AND 3 years of related professional/military experience.
- Must have an active US Government Secret clearance (with a background investigation within the past 6 years or enrolled into Continuous Evaluation).
- Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance, within a reasonable amount of time as determined by business needs.
- Willingness to work overtime, odd‑hour shifts, and occasional weekends to support test schedules
- Experience as a Test Engineer or Test Conductor that includes test development, planning, and execution
- Experience in a production test or military aircraft maintenance environment
- Must have a Bachelor of Science degree in a STEM discipline AND 8years of related professional/military experience, OR a Master's degree AND 6 years of related professional/military experience.
- Experience as a Test Engineer or Test Conductor that includes test development, planning, and execution
Nice To Haves
- Current active U.S. Government DoD Top Secret clearance
- Active Special Program Access (SAP)
- Experience in a production test or military aircraft maintenance environment
- Capability to comprehend and analyze complex problems and develop solutions
- Proven ability to communicate clearly, collaborate effectively across multidisciplinary teams, and bring differing perspectives into sound engineering decisions
- Experience presenting technical briefings to senior leadership, contractors, and customers
- Skilled at setting and revising priorities, providing direction to align tasks and focus effort on achieving project goals
Responsibilities
- Work closely with program management to ensure that planned testing for air vehicle aligns with the program priorities, flight test strategic plan, and software development plan
- Decompose program strategy into tasks for engineers, maintainers and operators
- Develop, maintain and publish integrated test asset schedules that forecast and track program milestones
- Continually optimize the test schedule by reacting to discoveries and constraints
- Perform integration across test disciplines and program functions to drive engineering solutions, break constraints, and verify requirements
- Identify dependencies and risks to scheduled test execution and mitigate or escalate until resolved
- Provide configuration requirements for each event to maintenance and test operations
- Coordinate Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) updates, change package incorporation, and modification planning with program leadership for assigned test asset
Benefits
- Relocation assistance may be available
- health insurance coverage
- life and disability insurance
- savings plan
- Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
- overtime
- shift differential
- discretionary bonus
- Annual bonuses
- Long Term Incentives (for VP or Director positions)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
