Engineering Manager, Hardware and Environments Test

True Anomaly•Quinte West, ON

39d•$145,000 - $160,000•Onsite

About The Position

As Manager, Hardware and Environments Test Engineering, you will lead the Colorado -based team of hardware and environmental test engineers to deliver fully tested and qualified components, developmental units, and spacecraft on aggressive timelines. You will own the test processes, schedules, capacity planning, and the execution outcomes of hardware and environmental test. You will partner closely with Program Management and Engineering to provide inputs to program schedules, align capacity with demand, ensure design for test, and drive disciplined execution against test milestones. You will be accountable for adapting test to program needs, continuously improving efficiency, automation, and process maturity to deliver the required quality at the required time. This role requires both strategic foresight and hands-on leadership: setting standards, driving automation, solving problems, and developing people to their full potential while ensuring every spacecraft meets mission assurance standards.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, aerospace engineering, or a related discipline.
First-principles driven approach to engineering and problem solving backed by ability to scale analytical rigor to meet program risk levels and maturity.
5+ years of experience in space system, developmental system, or complex system test across electrical, mechanical, fluids, and environmental. Environmental test experience in thermal, vacuum, vibration, electromagnetic interference / electromagnetic compatibility environments.
Mastered use of test processes, tools, and practices including test plans, test equipment design, development, and implementation, and the integration of automation components across these systems.
Experience setting up test architecture in manufacturing and test execution system (epsilon 3 or equivalent)
Experience with space-grade and ESD sensitive component and assembly testing.
Demonstrated ability to effectively manage and maintain test equipment and facilities including environmental, structural or mechanical, fluids, and electrical test.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in mechanical, aerospace engineering or equivalent discipline.
Extensive experience with test ground support equipment and electrical ground support equipment design, development, and implementation in test.
Demonstrated ability to stand up spacecraft/component test and environmental test facilities including vibration, thermal, vacuum, EMI/EMC, fluids and pressure.
Active DoD clearance or ability to obtain one.

Responsibilities

Lead and mentor a high-performing team of test engineers providing distance, direction, and motivation to complete the mission, growing capacity within our most important asset: our people.
Manage the team and cross-team test coordination utilizing effective and efficient tools that reduce friction and fuel high-quality, high-rate output
Own execution of test to meet program commitments including testing component, subsystem, vehicle-level hardware, and environments for qualification and acceptance.
Drive load capacity planning: forecast demand, balance resources, maximize efficiency, and ensure teams are properly staffed and focused.
Provide accurate inputs to the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS), engineering reviews, and test reviews, aligning test activities with program needs.
Own and continuously improve test processes, ensuring efficiency, repeatability, and compliance.
Drive partnership with design teams to ensure high quality design that not only meets requirements, but can be tested to the qualification requirements of a program.
Champion efficiency and automation initiatives to reduce cycle time, improve first-time test success, and scale acceptance and qualification repeatability.
Ensure test facilities and workspaces are clean, organized, and optimized for safety and efficiency.