Test Lead Engineer

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Your Impact:

The Jacobs Space Exploration Group (JSEG) offers a partnership, in which you can grow personally and professionally in an environment of strong leadership support, competitive compensations, work/home life balance, and an emphasis on safety.  Join JSEG on the Engineering Services and Science Capability Augmentation (ESSCA) contract and be part of a team that is making history.

Position is funded for two years with possiblity of continuing.

 

The Test Lead Engineer will:

• Support senior Test Leads (coordination of test plan implementation and follow ET30 procedures) for Structural Strength Testing.
• Interact with drawings of facilities, test hardware, customer hardware, and instrumentation requirements.
• Write instructions for technician operations, including application of safety procedures.

 

Job Duties will include:

• Coordination with NASA project level customers across organizations to ensure mission success.
• Work with a diverse team of civil servants and contractors to design, develop, setup, and perform structural testing on space flight qualification hardware, and other mission critical hardware.
• Participate in a Beyond Zero Safety Culture, attend safety meetings, task meetings, design reviews, and test readiness reviews as requested to support ESSCA and customer requirements.
• Develop and deliver reports and presentations as requested to support ESSCA and customer requirements via Power Point and other various software packages.
• Perform safety and certification training to support ESSCA and customer requirements.
• Familiarity with OSHA standards.

Here’s What You’ll Need:

Attained a BS degree in Aerospace, Mechanical, or Electrical Engineering from an ABET accredited institution.  3-10 years experience preferred.

The ideal candidate will be an Engineer with a strong sampling of the following skills and a desire to learn:

• Desire to conduct detailed hands-on work in a Lab testing environment on sub scale models to full scale structures in some of NASA’s largest indoor and outdoor test facilities.
• Load Control systems.
• Instrumentation systems, with emphasis on strain, displacement, and force measurement.
• Facility and space hardware operations.
• High pressure gas and hydraulic systems
• Operations in the presence of Cryogenic Liquids and Explosives.

 

 

Essential Functions

Work Environment: 

Office environment. Requires ability to provide clear, concise, accurate and timely communication, both verbally and in writing (100%). Requires ability to interact professionally with co-workers, management, and client (100%). Requires travel in the domestic USA (<10%).

Physical Requirements:

Requires sitting for extended periods of time in meetings with peers, management, and with our client at NASA facilities to discuss technical issues (10%). Also, requires sitting for extended periods of time at a desk to write reports and perform engineering tasks (80%). Requires ability to use stairs or elevators for access between floors and multiple buildings at NASA and Jacobs facilities (10%).  

Equipment and Machines: 

Requires ability to operate a personal computer, a telephone, fax machine, copier, calculator, and other general office equipment (100%).

Attendance: 

Normal workday is from 7:30 a.m. through 4:30 p.m., Monday thru Friday. Minimal overtime may be required (10%) to meet schedule milestones and to support technical demands of the job. Regular attendance is a necessity and adequate arrangements for delegating duties during absences are required.

Other Essential Functions:

 The ability to work independently with minimal supervision, and to make rational decisions, and to exercise good judgment is essential (100%). Grooming and dress must be appropriate for the position and must not impose a safety risk/hazard to the employee or others.

 

Proof of U.S. Citizenship is required. 

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