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Virgin Galactic is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Specialist Flight Test Engineer to join our team. As a key member of our flight operations team, you will be responsible for leading ground and flight test activities, ensuring the project meets mission requirements, and maintaining technical, budgetary, and schedule integrity with zero safety incidents.
Key Responsibilities:- Lead ground test and flight test activities
- Gather and develop test requirements from different engineering disciplines
- Work with engineering to turn requirements into test configuration, procedures, conditions, and maneuvers
- Develop test plans and schedules with project engineers and program managers
- Coordinate test schedules with maintenance, engineering, and flight operations
- Define control room display requirements and updates
- Define and monitor configurations for tests
- Monitor and conduct tests on aircraft and spaceships
- Provide daily reports on vehicle progress and reports on tests as flown and completed
- Update flight logs and test documentation
- Write test reports to document results
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, preferably in aerospace
- 10 years of test flight experience
- Knowledge of flight test and aerospace
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills
- Energetic, passionate, and organized team member ready to support complex test operations
- Able to manage multiple tasks simultaneously and thrive in a complex product development environment with multiple priorities
- Excellent verbal and written communication, excellent computer skills including Microsoft Word, Excel, Project, and PowerPoint
- Experience with IMP/IMS, risk management, configuration management, requirements management processes preferred
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a high attention to detail
- Team player with excellent organizational and interpersonal skills
- General understanding of aerospace drawings, specifications, and manufacturing processes
- Test Pilot School graduate, or flight test course work
Virgin Galactic is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to a Drug Free Workplace. All applicants post offer and active teammates are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies. For individuals seeking employment at our Phoenix Mesa Gateway Airport facility, employment is contingent upon obtaining and maintaining a TSA authorized security badge.
