Senior Manager, Test Operations, SpacePosted today$220K

Anduril Industries
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The opportunity

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U. S.

What you'll do

  • Recruit, mentor and lead a multi-domain test organization spanning functional: and electrical test, environmental test, test station and GSE engineering, and test operations — growing from initial hires toward a projected 40+ positions through the production ramp.

  • Own the transfer of test knowledge, procedures and tooling from: development-site test engineers into the production test team, including training, certification and proficiency standards for test engineers and technicians.

  • Coordinate closely with Launch Operations stakeholders to ensure all System: Test procedures, resources, and approval criteria are followed during launch campaigns. As needed, deployed Test personnel to support, train, and oversee launch operations to ensure compliance.

  • Define and own vehicle-level and subassembly acceptance test procedures and: qualification campaigns, including test flow, entrance and exit criteria, and data review gates.

  • Lead Test Readiness Reviews and test campaign readiness assessments; serve as: approval authority for test procedures run on flight hardware.

  • Own environmental test execution: thermal vacuum, sine and random vibration, acoustic, shock, thermal cycling, and EMI/EMC — including chamber and table scheduling, fixture and instrumentation readiness, and anomaly disposition.

What they're looking for

  • Drive design-for-test requirements into vehicle, payload and subassembly: designs before CDR, with the explicit objective of reducing test duration and test station count at rate.
  • Challenge inherited test requirements: identify tests that can be combined, moved to a lower assembly level, automated, or eliminated at acceptable risk, and carry those cases through the requirement owners with data.
  • Specify production environmental test capability: chamber count and size, vibration table capacity, EMI/EMC screen rooms — and own the test capacity model behind it.
  • Represent test operations up and out: support proposal development and Basis of Estimate content for test scope, present at technical and milestone reviews, and brief customers and business line leadership on test readiness, capability and risk.