Overview
Engineering Analyst I LOCATION: Huntsville, AL JOB STATUS: Full-time CLEARANCE: Secret
CERTIFICATION:
TRAVEL: As Needed
SALARY: $75,920K
Astrion has an exciting opportunity for an Engineering Analyst I located at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, AL. Astrion has worked extensively with Redstone Arsenal where it has earned a reputation for on-time delivery of high-quality products tailored to the needs of its clients.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS
- Active Secret security clearance required.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related discipline from an accredited college or university; or
- Associate’s degree in Engineering or a related discipline from an accredited college or university and two years of applicable experience; or
- Four years of applicable experience; or
- Four years of applicable military experience performing engineering, analysis, and related functions in research, development, test, and evaluation in support of military equipment and systems.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS
- Knowledge of engineering test and evaluation principles, dynamic-test operations, and data-analysis practices.
- Ability to read, interpret, and apply engineering drawings, test procedures, technical instructions, instrumentation diagrams, and test documentation.
- Ability to organize, validate, analyze, and present technical data accurately and clearly.
- Ability to identify data-quality issues, instrumentation discrepancies, abnormal test responses, and potential configuration concerns.
- Ability to prepare concise technical documentation, including reports, graphs, calculations, presentations, and test summaries.
- Ability to work safely around hazardous test articles, explosive items, hydraulic systems, energized mechanical systems, heavy equipment, suspended loads, and high-noise environments, as applicable.
- Ability to prioritize multiple tasks, adapt to changing test schedules, and support concurrent test activities.
- Ability to communicate effectively with technical and nontechnical personnel.
- Ability to work independently on assigned analysis tasks while collaborating effectively as part of an integrated test team.
- Experience supporting dynamic test operations in a laboratory, shop, or field-test environment.
- Experience with vibration, shock, acoustic, pyroshock, environmental, or structural test methods.
- Experience with electrodynamic shaker systems, hydraulic shakers, drop/shock systems, pendulum-impact equipment, acoustic-test equipment, or related test systems.
- Experience with dynamic-test instrumentation, including accelerometers, force transducers, displacement sensors, strain gauges, temperature sensors, signal conditioning, and calibration verification.
- Experience with data-acquisition and test-control systems, such as Data Physics, HBM, DewesoftX, Perception, or comparable systems.
- Experience using MATLAB, Microsoft Excel, or similar tools to process, evaluate, graph, and report test data.
- Experience preparing test plans, procedures, calculations, configuration records, test reports, and technical data packages.
- Experience evaluating test data for integrity, completeness, response trends, resonances, anomalies, and instrumentation concerns.
- Experience supporting testing of live munitions, aviation systems, missile systems, or related military and aerospace hardware.
- Experience working in a high-tempo technical environment with strict safety, quality, configuration-control, and procedural-compliance requirements.
- Experience coordinating work across engineers, technicians, quality personnel, test directors, and customers.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Support planning, coordination, and execution of vibration, acoustic, shock, pyroshock, environmental, and other dynamic test events.
- Assist engineers with development, review, and update of test plans, procedures, setup instructions, configuration records, data sheets, and final test reports.
- Review test requirements and support development of test approaches, instrumentation plans, data-acquisition configurations, and acceptance criteria.
- Support pre-test verification of test articles, fixtures, instrumentation, channel assignments, calibration status, cable routing, and data-acquisition systems.
- Monitor test operations and assist in identifying abnormal conditions, instrumentation issues, test-control deviations, or data-quality concerns.
- Collect, organize, process, analyze, and maintain test data, including vibration, shock, acoustic, force, displacement, temperature, and other instrumentation data, as applicable.
- Perform basic engineering analysis of test results to identify response trends, resonances, anomalies, exceedances, and other relevant observations.
- Use approved software tools to process and present test data, including data-acquisition, vibration-control, analysis, spreadsheet, graphing, and technical-reporting applications.
- Prepare calculations, plots, graphs, tabular results, technical summaries, and supporting documentation for engineer, customer, and management review.
- Assist with data integrity and quality assurance by validating test configurations, instrumentation records, calibration documentation, data files, and traceability records.
- Support troubleshooting of test setups, instrumentation, data-acquisition systems, control systems, electrodynamic shakers, hydraulic systems, and associated test-support equipment.
- Participate in pre-test, live-test, and post-test activities, including test readiness reviews, post-test inspections, data reviews, and recovery actions.
- Coordinate with engineers, technicians, quality-control personnel, test directors, and other stakeholders to meet test schedules and mission requirements.
- Document test observations, discrepancies, corrective actions, equipment issues, and lessons learned.
- Ensure compliance with applicable safety, explosive-safety, quality, configuration-control, and equipment-handling procedures.
- Support laboratory readiness, housekeeping, equipment accountability, process improvement, and development of safe and repeatable test practices.
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