Engineering Manager, Integration and Test; Manager, Test Engineering

Position:Engineering Manager, Integration and Test (Manager, Test Engineering)

Location: 8100 Shaffer Parkway

Unit #100

Littleton, CO

Job :3138

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Where dreams and reality collide and the output is, out of this world. At Redwire Space, we are a team of dreamers and doers. Where the impossible becomes possible, and every day is an opportunity to learn and get one step closer to knowing the unknown. Join us on our mission to expand humanity’s presence in space.

Through continuous innovation and operational excellence our team in Littleton, CO are using their engineering talents to design and deploy Power Distribution, Embedded Monitoring and Control, Power Conversion, and Camera based solutions. These cutting-edge capabilities are helping to revolutionize space flight. With many more exciting projects on the horizon, our team could use your curiosity, passion, talent and experience to help us Build Above!

Redwire Space Missions has an exciting opportunity for an
Engineering Manager, Integration and Test, at our facility in Littleton,  this role, you will lead and grow the engineering team that integrates, tests, verifies, and qualifies spacecraft avionics products, including power electronics, power distribution hardware, command & data handling hardware, camera systems and related avionics assemblies. This role ensures products are successfully transitioned from development into production while meeting technical, cost, schedule, and quality objectives.

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The successful candidate will build and lead a high-performing team responsible for electrical, functional, environmental, and qualification testing across the product lifecycle.

This position reports to the Director of Engineering Integration and Test and is responsible for developing standard integration and test processes, improving test automation, increasing engineering efficiency, and ensuring consistent execution across avionics product line.

• Lead the Integration & Test engineering team supporting spacecraft avionics products.
• Plan and manage integration, verification, qualification, acceptance, and environmental test campaigns for avionics products.
• Ensure verification activities satisfy system, customer, and mission requirements.
• Develop scalable integration and test architectures supporting both engineering development units and flight production hardware.
• Drive Design for Testability (DFT) principles into new product development.
• Support anomaly investigations, root cause analysis, and corrective actions.
• Support anomaly investigations, root cause analysis, and corrective actions.
• Coordinate laboratory utilization, test equipment availability, and engineering staffing.
• Recruit, mentor, and develop Integration & Test engineers.
• Establish technical standards and best practices for Integration & Test.
• Conduct performance reviews and career development planning.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Build organizational capability to support increasing production and program complexity.
• Participate in proposal activity by developing and/or reviewing execution plans, developing estimates and BOEs for task execution, and reviewing project costs.
• Establish and report team metrics to leadership to monitor team performance, skills bench depth, and on-time-delivery of engineering data.

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related technical discipline.
• 8+ years of engineering experience with the development, integration, and/or test of space-based electronics.
• Experience performing in a technical or functional lead role.
• Experience supporting environmental qualification testing, including shock, vibration, TVAC, and EMI/EMC.
• Experience and training insafe handling protocols for flight hardware, including cleanroom and ESD standards.
• An average of 10% travel may be required.
• Ability to obtain a US security clearance.

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering.
• Demonstrated experience integrating, testing, and qualifying spacecraft avionics and payload hardware (e.g. power electronics, camera…