Early Career &C Engineer

Overview

Job Title: &C Engineer

Location:
Arnold AFB, TN

Job Family Code: O - Engineering

Function/Branch:
Engineering/&C Branch

Directorate:
Engineering & Tech Support

Position Type:
Regular, Full-Time

Pay Type:
Exempt

Grade (provided by HR): L06 (XA0605) - L07 (XA0705)

Salary Range (provided by HR): $71,000 - $110,000 / year

Beyond New Horizons, LLC (BNH) has an exciting opportunity for an Instrumentation, Data and Controls (&C) Engineer supporting TOS II, at Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC) at Arnold AFB, TN. The &C Engineer will work as a member of an integrated team responsible for operating and maintaining the United States Air Force Test Operations efforts at AEDC.

This position requires occasional scheduled extended hours and/or weekend work to meet critical contractual requirements and occasional unscheduled night or weekend support in emergency situations.

The individual hired for this position will function as an &C Engineer supporting test operations, system/maintenance engineering, and/or design engineering for systems used in one or more of the various test facilities in the AEDC complex. Core responsibilities of this role include providing engineering support for any combination of the listed types of systems:

• Instrumentation and data acquisition systems used to make complex and highly accurate physical measurements of parameters associated with the article under test and/or the test facility
• Motion control systems for precision positioning of the test article in the test environment
• Facility and process control systems to control the test article and supplementary systems
• Plant process control systems to measure and ensure delivery of specified test conditions by implementing closed loop control of complex systems of motors, valves, compressors, hydraulics, pneumatics, etc.

&C Engineers will apply theoretical concepts and equations of electronics, signal processing, motion, control theory, and various software and computer skills in fulfilling the listed job duties.

This &C Engineering position will be deployed to the Flight Systems Test Facilities; however, &C Engineers may be reassigned to other areas based on workload demands and mission needs. &C engineers may also support multiple test areas/facilities as required.

&C Engineers at AEDC are critical to the execution of the test mission. Specifically, duties for this entry-level position include:

• Perform work, generally within Instrumentation, Data Acquisition, and/or Control System Engineering, which involves the preparation, interpretation or review of calculations, specifications, plans, investigations, surveys, structures, systems or equipment with relatively few complex features.
• Participate in one or more of the following:
• Application and support of &C systems in preparation for and during active ground test operations.
• System troubleshooting and return-to-service
• Development of system requirements
• Preparation of specifications and design calculations
• &C System design, development, lifecycle system engineering and/or system application and maintenance.
• System design, including concept sketches and layouts
• Automated Control and Human Machine Interface (HMI) Software Development
• Preparing designs, drawings and data under supervision of more experienced engineering staff
• Preparation of engineering studies and reports
• Preparation of material quantity estimates
• Uses computer aided design/computer aided engineering (CAD/CAE) tools
• System Verification and Validation Test Development/Execution
• Evaluate, select, and apply standard engineering methods, techniques, procedures and criteria, under the mentorship of senior engineering staff.
• Perform assignments, which have clear and specific objectives and require the investigation of a limited number of variables for &C Engineering; supports the use of common work processes and procedures within assigned function across the TOS contract.
• Draft letters for replies to vendor correspondence.
• Monitor and meet applicable work schedules.
• Review design documents of equipment manufacturers or subcontractors of a low to moderate degree of complexity and prepare comments and…