Test Conductor - R10211537

Base Pay Range: $70,200.00 – $ per year.

Relocation Assistance: May be available.

Clearance Type: Secret.

Travel: Yes, 25% of the time.

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people’s lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation’s history—from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean to stealth bombers to landing on the moon.

We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage, and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future—and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity, and bringing your whole self to work. Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Air Vehicle System Test Engineer – Engineering Field Service Representative (FSR) to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals within the Test & Evaluation organization.

This role is located in Naval Station Mayport, FL. The position requires 6+ months of training on a domestic assignment to Pax River, MD and Rancho Bernardo, CA to be completed prior to employment in Naval Air Station Mayport, FL. 25% domestic and OCONUS travel is expected to support business needs. The FSR will be embedded with a US Navy unit and serve as the system subject matter expert, providing training on the system hardware and software, as well as supporting the sailors in the unit with system operations, troubleshooting, and routine maintenance.

The Navy’s intent is for sailors to be the primary operators and maintainers of the system, with the FSR providing training/assistance as needed to keep the system fully mission capable. The FSR will have reach‑back/liaison support from Northrop Grumman Responsible Engineering/Development/Test Engineering teams.

• Interfacing with NGC and customer Flight Engineers, aircraft maintenance Technicians, US Navy service members, and Subsystem SMEs to sustain operations.
• Primary interface between maintenance, design and flight test engineering.
• Vehicle and Payload Test Controller (VTC/PTC) operations during aircraft start‑up/shut down for launch and recovery, conduct static ground tests, and troubleshooting.
• 25% domestic and OCONUS travel expected.
• Responsible for providing inputs to update Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals (IETMS).
• Reviews/provides inputs during engineering development and executes Detailed Test Requirements, Acceptance Test Procedures, and Ground Test Plans.
• Installs, operates, troubleshoots, maintains, repairs, and modifies equipment, in accordance with IETMS and/or other engineering directives (TDs/ECRs/TEIs/AMRs/MAFs).
• Performs a variety of organizational / depot‑level maintenance and technical support on products such as equipment, integrated systems, subsystems, and software at customer and/or field locations.
• Develops general knowledge of all aircraft systems, VTC/PTC, Engineering Design and software. Performs field integration, troubleshooting, and repair of air vehicle systems at the customer location including operations on a flight line, or in a hangar.
• Ability to interpret and trace electrical and air vehicle schematics. Performs essential electrical and RF troubleshooting using equipment such as, but not limited to: multimeter, network/spectrum analyzer, oscilloscope, time‑domain reflectometer (TDR), etc.
• Able to perform/support review and analysis of engineering schematics, supplier design data, support of functional test requirements including acceptance, qualification, and system integration on the air vehicle.

• Test conductor must have 6 years of related professional experience OR bachelor’s degree AND 2 years of related professional experience OR a master’s degree AND 0 years of related professional experience.
• Must have a DoD Secret clearance that is in‑scope or currently enrolled in CE, with the ability to obtain a Top‑Secret/SCI clearance within a reasonable amount of time to meet business needs.
• Experience with aircraft ground test operations.
• Willingness and ability to…