Test Engineering Manager (Aerospace)

Location: Moorpark, California, United States; first-shift, on-site position

Salary: $150,000–$190,000 per year

Company

Ensign-Bickford Aerospace & Defense Company develops aerospace and defense technologies supporting space missions and military applications.

What you will do

• Lead the safe execution of environmental, mechanical, and explosive testing across product development, qualification, production, troubleshooting, and failure analysis.
• Lead, mentor, and develop Test Engineers while establishing priorities, goals, and performance expectations.
• Direct test planning, resource allocation, scheduling, Test Planning Meetings, and Qualification Test Readiness Reviews.
• Ensure rigorous practices for test execution, data analysis, documentation, and configuration control.
• Coordinate schedules, risks, issue escalation, problem solving, RCCA, standard work, and continuous improvement across Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, EHS, Program Management, and customers.
• Improve test processes, equipment, fixtures, tooling, instrumentation, laboratory capabilities, and capital plans.

Requirements

• BS or MS in Engineering or a related technical discipline.
• At least 8 years of relevant engineering experience, including test engineering in aerospace, defense, energetic systems, medical devices, or another high-reliability environment.
• At least 3 years of technical or people leadership experience in an engineering, manufacturing, laboratory, or test environment.
• Experience mentoring and developing engineers and technical personnel, with strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills.
• Strong project management, resource planning, prioritization, and customer-facing communication skills.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings, specifications, test requirements, and test data; experience with 3D CAD and 2D drawings is required, with SolidWorks preferred.

Nice to have

• Experience with vibration, shock, altitude/vacuum, temperature, humidity, tensile, and compression testing.
• Experience with oscilloscopes, thermocouples, accelerometers, pressure transducers, data acquisition systems, and VR9500 or similar systems.
• Experience with explosive materials, energetic devices, or explosive testing.
• Experience improving engineering processes, standard work, test methods, or laboratory operations.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a collaborative, accountable, and high-performing engineering environment.
• Contribute to aerospace and defense missions involving space systems and military protection.
• Collaborate with engineering, manufacturing, quality, EHS, program management, and customers.