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Senior Principal Flight Test Engineer
Modern Technology Solutions, Inc.
Eglin Air Force Base, USA
Full-time
Senior · 15+ years experience
Onsite
Discovered 3 weeks ago
Full Job Posting
- Delivering capabilities rapidly to the warfighter
- Tailoring to identify and implement only critical and value-added processes or deliverables
- Prioritizing early prototyping
- Facilitating collaboration with warfighters to secure early and frequent performance feedback
- Driving rapid decision-making
- Provide test planning and execution oversight of tests conducted by industry partner, ensuring alignment with program priorities and mission objectives.
- Create test plans, coordinate test planning, and perform data collection and analysis of flight test results.
- Provide engineering expertise to the lead project engineer and make technical recommendations to the project engineers.
- Assist with identifying and mitigating technical, cost, and schedule risks.
- Lead the integration of early and continuous test processes across program stages.
- Participate in and support T&E reviews, audits, Integrated Product Teams (IPTs), Deficiency Review Boards (DRBs), Materiel Improvement Process Review Boards (MIPRBs), and Technical Interchange Meetings (TIMs).
- Apply expertise in risk management to advise senior government officials on test readiness and assess the technical readiness of test venues, systems, or technology projects.
- Collaborate with government stakeholders, prime contractors, and cross-functional engineering teams to ensure test objectives are met.
- Ensure requisite reviews, certifications, approvals, analyses, and test range readiness for flight test events are accomplished to keep program schedules on time.
- Occasionally travel in support of test events and program reviews.
- Bachelor of Science degree in engineering, mathematics, physics, or a similar field
- 15+ years of relevant experience in Air Force acquisitions, multi-faceted tests and test project teams, to include oversight of scheduling with a focus on developmental test or operational test (DT/OT)
- Top Secret clearance
- Eligible for Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) and Special Access Programs (SAP)
- Master of Science/Master of Engineering (MS/ME) degree in engineering, mathematics, physics, or a similar field
- 20+ years of relevant experience
- Test Pilot School graduate (USAF/USN/NTPS)
About Modern Technology Solutions, Inc.
IT Services & Consulting2681 employeesFounded 1993
Engineering services and technology solutions for national security.
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