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Test Engineer - Level 2 or Level 3
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation · 🇺🇸 United States-California-Oxnard
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About the role
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: No CLEARANCE TYPE: None TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time Description 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. Northrop Grumman’s Space Sector is seeking a Test Engineer - Level 2 or Level 3 to join our MEP Team in Oxnard, CA. This position is 100% onsite and cannot accommodate telecommute work. Northrop Grumman Mission Enabling Products (MEP) Business Unit designs, builds, and delivers space, defense and aviation-related systems to customers around the world. Our main products include satellites and associated space components and services, launch vehicles and related propulsion systems, missile products, subsystems and defense electronics, precision weapons, armament systems, and advanced aerospace structures. Learn more about Mission Enabling Products at our website: Mission Enabling Products | Northrop Grumman As a test engineer, you will design, develop, and implement testing methods and equipment. You will plan and arrange the labor, schedules, and equipment required for testing and evaluating standard and special devices. You will compile data and define changes required in testing equipment, testing procedures, manufacturing processes, or new testing requirements. You will be responsible for testing all customer samples and for special tests that cannot be performed in the test area. Job responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following: • Perform product testing, working in close collaboration with all parts of the Operating Unit for the test planning, coordinating, setup, execution, data reduction, test reporting, and post-data processing. • Perform integration of products to test tooling, software, equipment, and instrumentation. • Support with test data collection, post-test data review, reporting, and support test requirements verification. • Support technical writing to produce test documentation. • Participate and present in internal and external (customer) reviews. • Leverage modern tools and methods to reduce cost and schedule of product testing. • Accountable to the Operating Unit Operations Test Engineering Manager for meeting the Operations Test Engineering safety, quality, delivery, and cost expectations of internal and external customers within entire product value streams. • Must be able to support working multiple shifts; ie: 1st shift 6am to 3:30pm and 2nd shift 2:30pm to Midnight This requisition may be filled at either a Level 2 or Level 3 based on the qualifications listed below. Basic Qualifications - Level 2: • Bachelor's Degree in STEM discipline with 2 years of test experience; OR Master's Degree in STEM • Experience troubleshooting test equipment, test tooling, and test harnesses. • Experience with testing automation or other lean manufacturing/testing methodologies. • Demonstrated technical writing and/or procedure development skills. • Ability to travel between the Oxnard, CA, and Goleta, CA sites and travel to support customers, and n