MIL-STD-461 Test Engineer
Company | General Dynamics |
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Location | North Charleston, SC, USA |
Salary | $97750 – $132250 |
Type | Full-Time |
Degrees | Bachelor’s |
Experience Level | Senior |
Requirements
- Must be a US citizen
- Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering
- Minimum of 5 years of prior relevant experience
- Current or prior experience performing EMI/EMC testing
- Current or prior experience performing EMI test procedures and preparing test reports
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and Adobe products
- Active US DoD Secret clearance
Responsibilities
- Conduct testing on DoD systems and subsystems to a multitude of military standards such as MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-464, and MIL-STD-1399
- Interface clearly and professionally with various customers during testing
- Maintain lab schedules and perpetually increase testing efficiency
- Safely and precisely operate specialized electronic testing equipment
- Interpret and create data in graphical or other forms of analyses
- Keep a clean and organized lab space
- Draft and maintain test documentation and data files
- Lead test data QA/QC efforts
- Author and revise EMI testing final reports
- Lead and manage test equipment calibration efforts & schedules
- Perform shipping, receiving and warehouse functions as required
- Ability and willingness to travel as needed
- Complete yearly training as directed for general employment
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with commercial lab standards or accreditations
- Self-motivated individual eager to support many technical responsibilities with respect to testing, reporting and interfacing with a multitude of individuals with varied expertise
- Detail-oriented with a drive to constantly learn new system architectures, review interconnect drawings and develop test approaches
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Exposure to radio frequency (RF) operations and or MIL-STD Testing
- Experience with electronic lab equipment to include but not limited to: oscilloscopes, multimeters, antennas, receivers and RF amplifiers
- Experience supporting DoD programs
- Experience with hand and power tools, cable fabrication and general safety in the presence of high voltage equipment
- Coding proficiency in MATLAB, Python, C++ or similar