Littleton, Colorado, United States
$130-175k
Full Time
2 months ago
Job description
Bring Your Passion for Space!
Redwire is accelerating humanity’s expansion into space by delivering reliable, economical, and sustainable infrastructure for future generations.
Join our team of innovators and get a chance to work alongside a team of talented, curious people that are passionate about designing and deploying solutions that are accelerating humanity’s expansion into space. Through continuous innovation and operational excellence our teams in Littleton, CO are using their engineering talents to design and deploy both space components (Power Distribution, Embedded Monitoring and Control, Power Conversion, and Camera systems) and earth orbiting spacecraft. These cutting-edge capabilities are helping to revolutionize spaceflight. With many more exciting projects on the horizon, our team could use your curiosity, passion, talent and experience to help us Build Above.
Summary
Redwire Space seeks a Test Engineering Manager to lead our team in Littleton, CO. You'll drive engineering excellence, manage talent, and oversee testing for our groundbreaking projects.
Responsibilities
- Lead Test Engineering across Redwire Space Sensors, Littleton, CO.
- People management is intended to be 50% of the scope of work for this role, and 50% of scope will be in executing as a test engineer supporting test activities
- Coordinate with program managers, systems engineers, design engineers, manufacturing engineers, and quality managers to ensure all aspects of the tests are executing to plan
- Manage hiring, performance, mentorship, training, and career growth of Test Engineers and Technicians
- Develop and manage employee schedules and resource schedules
- Develop and execute test plans and procedures
- Manage reviews of test requirements and data
- Track program and cap-ex budgets for Test Engineering
- Conduct root cause analyses, failure investigations, and implementation of corrective actions
- Participate in proposal activity by developing execution plans, developing estimates for task execution, and reviewing project costs
- Communicate status, critical paths, challenges, and recommended solutions
- Drive process improvement initiatives
- Coordinate with engineering leadership to evaluate new technologies to expand testing capabilities
- Interface with higher levels of management for information flow
- Act as a primary spokesperson for Test Engineering
- Some limited travel may be required
- Ability to support testing outside of business hours including overnight and weekends as program schedule dictates
Ideal Experience
- B.S. in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, or related field with a minimum 8 or more years’ of aerospace/space industry experience
- Experience leading one or more sections or a small department
- 2+ years managing technical teams
- Experience in project planning and execution
- Experience with New Product Introduction, from requirements to product manufacturing and test
- US Citizenship required; Littleton, CO based
- Hands-on test engineering experience (i.e., EMI/EMC, Shock, Vibration, TVAC)
Desired Skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Strong technical and leadership skills
- Excellent communication skills that enable effective collaboration, status reporting, and documenting analysis and results
- Experience with AS9100 accreditation
- Project Management Certification
- Effective conflict-resolution and communication skills
- Ability to mentor engineers
- Experience with anomaly investigations
- Demonstrated effectiveness in implementing continuous improvements
- Experience in requirement derivation, verification, and management strategies
- Experience specifying and using test instrumentation and data acquisition systems
Grow with us as we innovate the next generation capabilities for a new era of space exploration! We offer a highly competitive benefits package along with a commitment to our core values of Integrity, Innovation, Impact, Inclusion, and Excellence.
Redwire is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Redwire is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
All offers of employment at Redwire are contingent upon clear results of a thorough background check and your ability to provide proof of eligibility to work in the US. Note that some positions will also require US citizenship or ability to obtain a security clearance due to requirements of a classified program.
To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR Click Here
Don’t meet every single requirement above? No worries. We want people who can grow, collaborate and build a stronger team. We strive to build a diverse and inclusive culture, so if you’re excited about this job posting, we encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
For Colorado positions:
Pay Range
$130,000 - $175,000 annually
$130,000 - $175,000 annually
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