Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) Looking for F-35 Test Project Support Engineer (Engineer Systems 3) at Arlington, VA  Full Time

HII has an immediate opportunity for anF-35 Test Project Support Engineer. This position will provide strategic and operations functions required to deliver both Government Organic and Industry Ground Test Infrastructure, provide management and support plan oversight for assurance of verification capability test assets through proper Verification, Validation, and Accreditation (VV&A), and will manage overall ground test facilities and capabilities.

The position is located in Arlington, Virginia and a hybrid remote/onsite work schedule will be available.

• Perform technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, cost and risk, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for total systems.
• Provide life limiting modification and Flight Test Instrumentation (FTI) sustainment support for the Developmental Test fleet aircraft to enable Block 3 and Block 4 testing.
• Test Data Repository and Management, including Flight Test Data, Ground Test Data, test networks and knowledge management, and coordination of test data with verification managers.
• Demonstrated knowledge of Service and Departmental policy and documentation related to flight test programs at the operational and / or development level.
• Provide technical and analytical support for T&E and Verification, Validation and Accreditation (VV&A) requirements identification and management.
• Coordinate, conduct, and participate in technical and planning meetings to facilitate collaboration across JSE Enterprise and operational user groups to identify and define T&E and VV&A approaches.
• Assists in coordinating Joint Simulation Environment (JSE) team activities which include JSE development, weapon model development, threat model development, red and blue air model development, M&S environment development to establish T&E requirements and Verification and Validation (V&V) methods in support of accreditation.
• Ensure the logical and systematic conversion of customer or product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints.

• 5 years relevant experience with Bachelors in related field; 3 years relevant experience with Masters in related field; 0 years experience with PhD or Juris Doctorate in related field; or High School Diploma or equivalent and 9 years relevant experience.
• At least 3 years flight test program experience (Developmental and/ or Operational).
• Technical project management experience.
• Experience with Microsoft Office products; specifically user-level understanding of spreadsheet programs and relational databases, such as Microsoft Excel and Access.
• Clearance: Active secret security clearance.

• At least 10 years of experience in an engineering or technical position.
• Familiar with aircraft operations, flight testing, development and or operational and range testing for F-35 and/or fifth generation fighter aircraft is a plus.

• Office, industrial, or shipboard environment.
• Capable of climbing ladders and tolerating confined spaces and extreme temperature variances.
• Lifting and moving materials may be required.