Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Develop and/or maintain project plans for component testing.
• Coordinate configuration changes with upstream and downstream stakeholders.
• Assess programmatic impact of configuration change requests.
• Create and manage line of balance for hardware and key equipment to support upcoming tests.
• Prepare and maintain development test strategy and qualification test strategy documents for all valves
• Partner with manufacturing engineering, contribute to development of detailed procedures and help establish a roadmap to rate production.
• Provide support on tasks, activities, and action items for manufacturing team within the valves IPT, consisting of manufacturing engineers and planners
• Respond to unexpected changes to ensure test activities stay on schedule, on budget, and are completed with high-quality and documented build pedigree.
• Coordinate with procurement, internal and external manufacturing to ensure that hardware priorities are well understood and are actively managed to support the need dates.
• Identify schedule-critical hardware, equipment, people, and facilities; resolve constraints.
• Develop recovery strategies when non-conformances or other escapes are identified.
• Identify risks and develop mitigation plans.
• Develop schedule and budget; manage and report progress.
• Develop and report key project metrics.
• Coordinate with component owner and systems engineering on definition of verification expectations and activities in component/ subcomponent technical specs

Education/Experience

• B.S./M.S. Degree in Engineering.
• 3-5 years of experience in component development, component testing, and configuration management systems

Qualifications: The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required.

• Ability to manage open risks, coordinate mitigation plans with a cross-functional team, and drive risks to closure
• Experience implementing, customizing, or improving configuration management systems in a development engineering environment (working with ECRs is highly desirable)
• Must be effective in leading a team and facilitating the creation of mitigation plans
• Possess high attention to detail and strong organizational/coordination skills.
• Strong knack for troubleshooting and quick thinking to keep the project moving forward.
• Working knowledge of configuration management principles and practices.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Desired skills:

• Experience moving hardware through production
• Experience leading a small technical team.
• Experience with P6 or other GANTT-style project management tools.

Salary Range: $75,000 - $130,000

The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, location, the candidate’s combination of job-related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience.

Note: Due to nature of work, only US Persons (citizens or permanent residents) need apply for this position.

Location: Huntsville, AL