Production Test Center of Excellence Lead, SME

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🔥 15 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $100 - $200 / hour

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Quest Defense

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201 - 500 employees

🚀 Aerospace

🎖️ Defense

Aerospace • Defense

Quest Defense is a company specializing in providing advanced engineering solutions for the defense sector, particularly in the domains of air, land, sea, and space. They deliver mission-critical and safety-focused solutions, integrating cutting-edge technologies such as AI, IoT, and digital threads throughout the product lifecycle to enhance efficiency, performance, and safety. Their expertise encompasses a wide range of services including mechanical engineering, engineering process optimization, and sustainment and product support. Quest Defense partners with leading defense organizations to meet the most challenging industry standards and demands, working on innovative technologies to optimize aerospace, naval, land, and space systems. The company is committed to diversity, inclusion, and maintaining high ethical standards in its operations.

📋 Description

• Lead the development and maturation of a Production Test Center of Excellence • Advise customers on production test strategies, methodologies, operating models, and best practices • Partner with engineering, manufacturing, quality, and program teams to define requirements, specifications, and success criteria • Develop production test roadmaps covering requirements, implementation, validation, deployment, and sustainment • Define test methodologies, acceptance criteria, and strategies for electrical, functional, environmental, and system-level testing • Develop production test architectures, sequencing, workflows, and execution strategies • Architect complete production test cells with instrumentation, fixturing, sensors, switching, power, signal management, automation, and data acquisition • Guide automated test software, test executive applications, automation frameworks, and production data management solutions • Establish validation processes, quality standards, compliance requirements, maintenance strategies, and performance metrics • Support troubleshooting, root cause corrective action, yield improvement, and operational excellence • Develop sustainment, preventive maintenance, and long-term support strategies • Support business development, customer engagement, solution shaping, technical strategy, and capture planning • Assist with Statements of Work, technical proposals, basis-of-estimate packages, and pursuit strategies • Define turnkey production test solutions spanning engineering, hardware, instrumentation, software, automation, integration, installation, validation, training, and sustainment • Develop delivery plans and pricing strategies with engineering, operations, procurement, suppliers, and business leadership • Evaluate technical risk, schedules, capital equipment, make-versus-buy decisions, subcontractor needs, and integration complexity • Advise leadership on team structures, capabilities, competencies, and strategic investments • Leverage industry networks to identify talent, partners, suppliers, and opportunities

🎯 Requirements

• 20+ years of experience in Production Test Engineering, Manufacturing Test Engineering, Automated Test Equipment (ATE), Test Systems Engineering, or related engineering disciplines • Experience designing, implementing, and supporting production test environments for complex electronic, electromechanical, RF, communications, avionics, sensor, radar, weapons, or other mission-critical systems • Deep understanding of the complete production test lifecycle, including test requirements, specifications, strategy, sequencing, architecture, instrumentation, integration, automation, validation, deployment, and sustainment • Hands-on experience developing production test hardware and infrastructure, including fixtures, instrumentation, switching systems, sensors, power systems, and data acquisition platforms • Experience with automated test software, test executive platforms, automation frameworks, and production data collection and reporting systems • Understanding of manufacturing operations, quality systems, statistical process control, Six Sigma, and continuous improvement • Experience transitioning products from development and integration into full-rate production • Experience defining solution architectures and execution strategies for production test systems and manufacturing test cells • Experience developing business cases, basis-of-estimate packages, capital equipment assessments, material and labor estimates, integration plans, and turnkey solution pricing models • Understanding of cost drivers for engineering services, hardware, instrumentation, software, integration, installation, validation, and sustainment • Ability to communicate with executive leadership, engineering, manufacturing, suppliers, and customers • Ability to influence decisions, build trusted relationships, and serve as a strategic technical advisor • Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline required • Willingness and ability to travel frequently • Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance required • Active Secret Clearance preferred • Previous aerospace, defense, space, advanced electronics, or high-reliability manufacturing experience preferred • Experience leading production test organizations, Centers of Excellence, or enterprise-wide test standards preferred • Existing industry network preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation • Employer-matched 401(k) • Certification assistance • Clear opportunities for advancement • Flexible, collaborative, and people-first environment • Work-life balance • Purpose-driven, mission-critical aerospace and defense projects

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