Test Conductor/ Principal Test Conductor

Northrop Grumman • San Diego, CA

4d • $83,400 - $155,400 • Onsite

About The Position

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for an Test Conductor/ Principal Test Conductor to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals within the Triton Test and Evaluation organization supporting the Mission Data Center. This position will be located in San Diego (Rancho Bernardo), CA. Mission-critical and hands-on—In this role you will be doing planning, coordinating, and executing production tests across multiple integration levels; leading test readiness reviews; troubleshooting anomalies in real time; and refining procedures to ensure tests meet mission objectives. In this role you will be supporting cross-functional delivery by serving as the liaison across program, engineering, and line management while coordinating test schedules and daily execution with managers, operators, and manufacturing on-site in San Diego (with overtime/off-hour flexibility and up to 10% travel). In this role you will be responsible for managing test schedules and status reporting, selecting and supervising technicians, and driving test execution quality from readiness through completion. This position requires outstanding written and oral communications skills. Individual will be required to serve as either a principal subject matter focal point between maintenance, design engineering, and test site team - contractor and customer. Individual must be able to work under only general direction to determine and develop approaches to solutions; must be able to work both within a team environment and independently; must be self-motivated, thorough, and detailed; and must be willing to learn additional engineering discipline areas. Extended Work Week, odd shifts, and weekend work will occasionally be required. We offer flexible work arrangements, 9/80 work schedule with every other Friday off, phenomenal learning opportunities, exposure to a wide variety of projects and customers, and a very friendly team environment. We are looking for self-motivated, proactive, and goal-oriented people to help us grow our services and become even better at what we do. This position may be filled at either level depending on requirements below.

Requirements

• Must have a High School Diploma and 6 years of related professional/military experience, OR Bachelor degree AND 2 years of related professional/military experience, OR a Master's degree AND 0 years of related professional/military experience. (For Test Conductor Level 2)
• Must have a High School Diploma and 9 years of related professional/military experience, OR Bachelor degree AND 5 years of related professional/military experience, OR a Master's degree AND 3 years of related professional/military experience OR a Ph.D. AND 1 year of related professional/military experience. (For Principal Test Conductor Level 3)
• 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.
• This position requires ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Top-Secret clearance
• In depth knowledge of or test experience, to include control room monitoring
• General knowledge of aviation systems

Nice To Haves

• In depth knowledge of or test experience, to include control room monitoring
• Active US Government Top Secret clearance
• Experience with guidance, navigation and control or flying qualities experience in a control room environment.
• Prior experience working with IADS software
• Familiar with windows operating system
• Familiar with windows programs: word, excel
• Windows file organization and data migration

Responsibilities

• Providing laboratory support for integration testing
• Supporting and hosting test planning working groups
• Interfacing with test article design and analysis teams to define test configuration and data requirements
• Reviewing and evaluating test requirements to ensure completeness of test program
• Performing technical analysis of complete systems and prepares comprehensive system level evaluations
• Supporting test card reviews in collaboration with other engineering disciplines and test operations personnel
• Supporting test readiness reviews, and pre/post-test briefings
• Providing mission control room support and make real-time decisions regarding safety, efficiency, and effectiveness.
• Conducting and contributing to pre and post-test data analyses to support anomaly identification and resolution. Maintains metrics on status of testing and constraints
• Generating metrics for leadership reviews
• Hot bench, Lab, and flight data management

Benefits

• health insurance coverage
• life and disability insurance
• savings plan
• Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
• Relocation assistance may be available

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED