Senior Integration and Test Engineer Security Clearance

Position: Senior Integration and Test Engineer with Security Clearance
General Atomics (GA), and its affiliated companies, is one of the world's leading resources for high-technology systems development ranging from the nuclear fuel cycle to remotely piloted aircraft, airborne sensors, and advanced electric, electronic, wireless and laser technologies. General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) is a supplier of advanced electromagnetic systems, related power equipment and other high technology products for a variety of government and commercial applications.

These include products such as the design and fabrication of linear motors, superconducting and conventional rotating motors, power inverters, high-energy capacitors, radiation monitoring systems, high-voltage direct current power distribution systems, and numerous other products. We have an exciting opportunity in our Aerospace Systems Engineering department for an Integration, Assembly, and Test Lead. This full-time position will serve as the IA&T Lead for a missile system.

The successful candidate will provide technical leadership for a multi-disciplinary team distributed between Huntsville, AL, Tupelo, MS, Fredericksburg, VA, and San Diego, CA. The IA&T Lead will support the Chief Engineer through all phases of the design, development, integration, and test of the missile system.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

* Provide technical guidance and oversight to a multi-disciplinary IA&T team that encompasses integration of classified technologies into weapon systems, and assembly of the system, and ground and flight testing in direct support of a new program initiative

* Manage issues of compatibility, interfaces, functionality and system operability

* Ability to interface with Systems Engineering in the review of Requirements Verification and Traceability Matrix (RVTM) and individual requirements for mapping within test plans and procedures.

* Synthesize customer contractual needs and requirements into system test solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints.

* Leads the development, modifies, and executes highly complex test plans, integration flows and procedures, and test procedures.

* Leads the execution of ground and flight tests, documents test results and test reports.

* Leads efforts for systems inspections, testing, verification, and validation of assigned systems.

* Provide direction for integrated testing activities (ground and flight). Collaborate with engineering to resolve highly complex and diverse issues.

* Provide leadership in the development/updating of test standards and operating procedures.

* Provide leadership, direction, and training to less experienced systems test staff.

* Maintain the strict confidentiality of sensitive information.

* Responsible for observing all laws, regulations and other applicable obligations wherever and whenever business is conducted on behalf of the Company. Expected to work in a safe manner in accordance with established operating procedures and practices.
* Guide the identification, communication, documentation of test objectives, and development of test procedures, assembly and integration processes and instructions accordingly

* Support technical interchanges for integration and test activities on a major missile system program acting as the primary interface with the Chief Engineer, program management, other IPT Leads, government customers, General Atomics leadership/management, national test ranges, range safety offices, other test related organizations

* Assist the planning, development and execution of major program technical reviews including System Requirements Review, Preliminary Design Review, and Critical Design Review.

* Lead the planning, development and execution of Test Readiness Reviews

* Facilitate rapid resolution of technical delays that impact tasks including real-time, thorough communication with other IPTs

* Collaborate daily with GA and customer engineering and program management teams

* Support the program manager in the development of statements-of-work (SOWs) and technical requirements documents for subcontractors

* Support the program manager and chief engineer by providing technical oversight to subcontractors

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