# Senior Manager, Test Operations, Space **Company**: Anduril Industries **Location**: Costa Mesa, California **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $166,000-$220,000 USD **Category**: Manufacturing **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/andurilindustries/jobs/5225988007?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_2aeb820d-6f8 ## Description Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. We are seeking a highly experienced and dynamic Senior Manager, Test Operations to lead our Development and Production Testing efforts across multiple critical space programs. **What You'll Do** Anduril's Space business is standing up manufacturing and test for multiple space vehicle lines at once , moving from development builds today into full rate production within four years. The Senior Manager, Test Operations will build and lead the test organization that makes that ramp possible: vehicle and subassembly acceptance and qualification test, environmental test operations, test station and ground support equipment engineering, and the procedures and data systems behind them. **Responsibilities** - Test Organization and Leadership: Recruit, mentor and lead a multi-domain test organization spanning functional and electrical test, environmental test, test station and GSE engineering, and test operations , growing from initial hires toward a projected 40+ positions through the production ramp. - Own the transfer of test knowledge, procedures and tooling from development-site test engineers into the production test team, including training, certification and proficiency standards for test engineers and technicians. - Coordinate closely with Launch Operations stakeholders to ensure all System Test procedures, resources, and approval criteria are followed during launch campaigns. - As needed, deploy Test personnel to support, train, and oversee launch operations to ensure compliance. **Test Campaign Definition and Execution** - Define and own vehicle-level and subassembly acceptance test procedures and qualification campaigns, including test flow, entrance and exit criteria, and data review gates. - Lead Test Readiness Reviews and test campaign readiness assessments; serve as approval authority for test procedures run on flight hardware. - Own environmental test execution , thermal vacuum, sine and random vibration, acoustic, shock, thermal cycling, and EMI/EMC , including chamber and table scheduling, fixture and instrumentation readiness, and anomaly disposition. **Design for Test** - Drive design-for-test requirements into vehicle, payload and subassembly designs before CDR, with the explicit objective of reducing test duration and test station count at rate. - Challenge inherited test requirements: identify tests that can be combined, moved to a lower assembly level, automated, or eliminated at acceptable risk, and carry those cases through the requirement owners with data. **Capability, Facility and Rate** - Specify production environmental test capability , chamber count and size, vibration table capacity, EMI/EMC screen rooms , and own the test capacity model behind it. - Represent test operations up and out: support proposal development and Basis of Estimate content for test scope, present at technical and milestone reviews, and brief customers and business line leadership on test readiness, capability and risk. **Required Qualifications** - Bachelor's degree in engineering, physics or a related technical field. - 10+ years in spacecraft or space vehicle integration and test, including 5+ years leading test engineers or technicians, and technical lead or manager on at least two complete environmental qualification or acceptance campaigns from procedure definition through data review and disposition. - Hands-on ownership of at least three of: thermal vacuum, sine or random vibration, acoustic, shock, thermal cycling, EMI/EMC to MIL-STD-461 or equivalent. - Managed a team of 10 or more engineers and/or technicians spanning at least two test domains , for example functional and electrical test plus environmental test, or test operations plus test station engineering. - Working knowledge of a recognized space test standard such as SMC-S-016, GSFC-STD-7000 (GEVS) or MIL-STD-1540, including where you tailored it and why. - Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance **Preferred Qualifications** - A quantified improvement in test throughput or cycle time that you can explain mechanically , for example scaling test capacity by 3x or more, or reducing test flow duration by 20% or more. - Authored or approved 10 or more test procedures executed on flight hardware. - Has represented a test or manufacturing organization up and out: contributed to proposal and Basis of Estimate content, and briefed customers or executive leadership on readiness and risk. - Stood up an environmental test capability or a test organization from zero , chamber and table procurement, commissioning, facility interface, first-article campaigns. - Took a spacecraft or complex electromechanical product from single-digit annual builds into rate production of 100+ units per year. - Supported space vehicle test through to Launch and Operations - Python scripting and test automation; experience with automated test execution and test data pipelines. - Operated in both classified and unclassified cleanroom environments. - Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Top Secret or U.S. Top Secret SCI security clearance ## Skills ### Required - thermal vacuum - sine vibration - random vibration - acoustic - shock - thermal cycling - EMI/EMC - test automation - Python scripting ### Nice to have - test throughput improvement - test procedure authoring - proposal development - leadership - space test standards --- Source: [Apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/andurilindustries/jobs/5225988007?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)