Job Description

Job Title: ​​​​​​​​Principal Environmental Test Engineer I​ Location: ​​Austin, TX Zip Code: 78738 Start Date: Right Away Job Type: Direct Hire Pay Rate: ​​$125,000 - $150,000​/salary DoE Keywords: #​​PrincipalTestEngineer #EngineeringJobs

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Create hardware test procedures, ensure test readiness, unblock issues that arise during test campaigns, etc. in support of our environmental test resources.
• Serve as the technical subject matter expert for environmental test - primary point of support for environmental test equipment and processes and maintain responsibility over test execution for spacecraft hardware.
• Develop standard operating procedures for environmental test technicians.
• Establish and increase the efficiency of environmental test processes to maximize output, limit burden, and enable products to rapidly transition from engineering development to production.
• Identify improvement opportunities and execute initiatives to maintain safe operations, ensure product quality, reduce lead time/labor hours, etc. through environmental test.
• Identify, implement, and qualify environmental test equipment and processes in support of high reliability and throughput production.
• Troubleshoot and identify ultimate root cause of issues in environmental test processes (hardware defects, test equipment anomalies, software problems, etc.), and implement permanent corrective actions.
• Enable production autonomy understanding requirements, simplifying work processes, and automating actions.
• Develop test equipment automation to improve efficiency of environmental test processes and maximize throughput.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• ​Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline and a minimum of 9 years related experience.​
• Experience in a hardware test environment for the Aerospace industry.
• .Experience operating/maintaining thermal chambers, TVAC chambers, and/or vibration shakers.
• Experience with test instrumentation (i.e. thermocouples, accelerometers, pressure transducers, etc.)
• ​​Demonstrated ability to scale production rate capability.
• Experience performing RTCA DO-160 aerospace environmental qualification campaigns for humidity, waterproofness, icing, sand and dust, salt fog, temperature and altitude, acceleration, operational shock and crash safety, vibration, and fluids susceptibility.
• Demonstrated experience with hardware automation using Python, C++, or similar.​

If you are interested in this role, please apply via the apply now link provided. Our overriding goal is to provide quality staffing solutions that help people, organizations, and communities succeed. Belcan is a leading provider of qualified personnel to many of the world's most respected enterprises. We offer excellent opportunities for contract, temporary, temp-to-hire, and direct assignments. We are the employer of choice for thousands worldwide. For more information, please visit our website at Belcan.com EOE/F/M/Disability/Veterans

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