Position​/PostingTitle Early Career Plant Operations Engineer

Overview

Job Title:
Plant Operations Engineer

Location:
Arnold AFB, TN

Job Family Code: O-Engineering

Function/Branch:
Engineering / Propulsion

Directorate:
Test Operations

Position Type:
Regular, Full-Time

Pay Type:
Exempt

Grade:
L06 (OA0624)-L07(OA0723)

Salary Range or Starting Hourly Rate:
L06: $75,000 - $88,000; L07: $80,000 – $96,000/ per year

Beyond New Horizons, LLC (BNH) has an exciting opportunity for a Plant Operations Engineer, supporting the Test Operations and Sustainment contract at Arnold Engineering Development Complex at Arnold Air Force Base, TN. The Plant Operations Engineer will be working as a member of an integrated team responsible for operating and maintaining ground test facilities in support of the United States Air Force Test Operations and Sustainment efforts.

Open to internal and external candidates.

We are Seeking a Mechanical or Electrical Engineer to support national-defense propulsion ground-test facilities. This role works on a multidisciplinary team to plan, direct, operate, maintain, and improve the large electromechanical systems needed to create test conditions.

The engineer serves as a central technical coordinator during testing—similar to a control-room “quarterback”—and supports equipment ranging from major drive trains to motors, compressors, refrigeration systems, heaters, and dryers.

• Support the safe and reliable operation and maintenance of assigned plant and test facilities.
• Plant support for test programs, including equipment sequencing, schedules, work instructions, risk assessments, and resource estimates.
• Provide technical direction during test operations, including support on multiple shifts, off-shift work, or extended hours as required.
• Coordinate use of qualified operators and support special security requirements for test programs.
• Participate in post-test meetings to identify equipment status, maintenance needs, plant availability, and schedule impacts.
• Serve as a point of contact among test operations, plant systems engineers, craft personnel, planners, schedulers, and management.
• Review equipment-condition assessments and support incident investigations and fitness-for-service evaluations.
• It is a condition of employment to wear company issued PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) in accordance with supervisory direction and company policy.
• Perform other related duties as required.

• Apply engineering principles involving mechanical, electrical, thermal, hydraulic, pneumatic, heat-transfer, and materials systems.
• Prepare and review engineering calculations, specifications, plans, drawings, reports, and data analyses.
• Support equipment design, upgrades, troubleshooting, maintenance, and improvement projects.
• Develop operating procedures, maintenance plans based on equipment condition and health
• Work with reliability engineers to develop maintenance plans based on equipment condition and health.
• Ensure needed materials and parts are available to prevent equipment failures.
• Coordinate with planners, schedulers, and craft supervisors to safely execute maintenance, upgrades, and test-support projects.
• Provide technical guidance to craft personnel during troubleshooting and maintenance activities.
• Conduct root-cause analyses and equipment-performance reviews following failures or process issues.
• Recommend corrective actions and improvement and test-support projects.
• Work with controls, instrumentation, design, data-analysis, modeling and simulation, and other engineering teams to solve problems and prepare for future testing.
• It is a condition of employment to wear company issued PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) in accordance with supervisory direction and company policy.
• Perf…