Senior Flight Test Engineer
3 days ago
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Flight Test Engineer to join our team at Virgin Galactic. As a key member of our flight test 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 safety at the forefront.
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 ops
- Define control room display requirements and updates
- Define and monitor configurations for tests
- Conduct tests on the aircraft and in the control room
- 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
- Able to manage multiple tasks simultaneously and thrive in a complex product development environment with multiple priorities
- Experience with IMP/IMS, risk management, configuration management, requirements management processes preferred
- General understanding of aerospace drawings, specifications, and manufacturing processes
- Test Pilot School graduate, or flight test course work
- Hands-on flight test experience highly desired
The annual U.S. base salary range for this Full-time position is $105,700.00-$161,000.00. The base pay actually offered will vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, location, and experience and take into account internal equity. Other forms of pay (e.g., bonus or long-term incentive) may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and other benefits, dependent on the position offered.
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