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Tucson, AZ
Secret Polygraph Unspecified
Senior Level Career (10+ yrs experience)
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Job Description
Location: Tucson, AZ
Clearance: Active Secret clearance required
Role Summary
Seeking a Principal Test Systems Test Execution Lead to support a Test Equipment Engineering organization in Tucson, AZ.
This role leads multi-discipline engineering teams supporting test systems across manufacturing, production, qualification, integration, verification, validation, and maintenance environments. The position combines technical execution, program coordination, EVMS ownership, budget/schedule management, and cross-functional leadership across electrical, software, mechanical, and test engineering teams.
Key Responsibilities
Lead multi-discipline test engineering teams across electrical, software, mechanical, and related technical areas.
Direct project execution from inception through completion across technical, manufacturing, and administrative workstreams.
Serve as an IPTL-style lead for test systems engineering programs.
Oversee ongoing project execution, priorities, schedules, budgets, and operational deliverables.
Coordinate with program leadership, finance, planning, functional teams, and customer stakeholders.
Support Earned Value Management activities, including cost, schedule, performance tracking, and reporting.
Analyze program data, identify execution risks, and recommend corrective actions.
Support proposal activity, business plans, work statements, specifications, BOEs, budgets, and contract inputs.
Communicate test systems performance, risks, and execution status to functional leadership, program leadership, and customers.
Drive alignment across engineering development, transition to production, production support, and sustainment activities.
Required Qualifications
8+ years of relevant engineering, test systems, program execution, or technical leadership experience.
Active Secret clearance required.
Experience with EVMS and program management.
Experience supporting test systems engineering or equivalent engineering programs.
Experience with hardware and test software development, integration, verification, validation, and maintenance.
Experience in production, manufacturing, product qualification, or similar test environments.
Experience with program management tools and processes, including:
EVMS
Integrated Master Plan
Integrated Master Schedule
Risk and Opportunity Management
Experience managing budget, schedule, EAC process, and financial performance reporting.
Experience generating Budget Change Requests and Basis of Estimates for engineering programs.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience managing multi-disciplinary engineering teams.
IPTL experience supporting program offices, cross-functional teams, and internal/external customers.
EVMS certification, program management certification, or equivalent program leadership certification.
Strong communication skills with the ability to present performance results to functional and program leadership.
Experience executing small to medium technical programs.
Understanding of engineering development, transition to production, production support, and maintenance.
Experience with proposal capture and contract processes, including:
RFP review
BOE preparation
Proposal submittal
Statement of Work development
Contract startup
Contract close-out
Experience with ATE/UUT test environments.
Familiarity with Agile methodologies.
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