Environmental Test Lab Manager
| Company | Varda Space |
|---|---|
| Location | El Segundo, CA, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Senior |
Requirements
- B.S. engineering degree or 5+ years performing environmental testing
- 5+ years of experience working hands-on in an environmental test lab with thermal chambers and vibration shakers
- 2+ years of managing test lab equipment
- Teamwork, communication, and problem solving in a collaborative environment
Responsibilities
- Manage day-to-day operations of Environmental Test Lab
- Perform acceptance and qualification testing of flight and development hardware and document results
- Program and operation environmental test chambers (thermal, thermal vacuum) and vibration shakers
- Use electronic test equipment, test racks, and DAQs to run performance tests on components
- Maintain test schedule based on vehicle priorities
- Forecast long term test asset usage and recommend capital equipment expenditures
- Purchase and install thermal chambers, thermal vacuum chambers, and vibration tables
- Oversee equipment maintenance and calibration to ensure functionality
- Own lab layout, tools, and improvement projects
Preferred Qualifications
- Ability to read and execute work to engineering drawings and schematics
- Assembling and testing propulsion systems
- Assembling and testing electronic components
- Testing integrated complex systems such as satellites, planes, or rockets
- Experience testing to SMC-S-016 or MIL-STD-810G standards
- Experience with forklifts, cranes, and lift rigging
- Working in cleanrooms with ESD sensitive components
- Experience with analog and digital instrumentation (load cells, pressure transducers, strain gauges, RTDs, TCs, encoders, accelerometers)
- Comfortable and familiar with operating fabrication equipment (mill, lathe, drill press)
- Experience managing direct reports including performance feedback, training, and development
- Proficient with computers and MS Office
Benefits
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No information provided on Benefits.