Job Information
Enstrom Helicopter Flight Test Engineer in Menominee, Michigan
Position: Test Engineer
Reports To: Experimental Manager (or VP of Engineering)
Status: Exempt
POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES
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This individual will work in the Experimental Engineering department and will be responsible for conducting R&D and certification ground/flight tests. The candidate will be responsible for test preparation, planning instrumentation and strain gauges, instrumentation and equipment calibration, programming data acquisition software, data reduction, and test reporting. He/she will assist in test conformities and TIA preparation, participate in FAA certification projects, support safety of flight briefings, and assist other Engineering Groups on an "as needed/as available" basis depending upon his/her other skills and abilities.
Duties include but are not limited to the following:
This individual will be responsible for R&D and certification ground/flight tests, including:
- Reviewing proposed projects and developing compliance and test matrices
- Planning, writing, and/or reviewing test plans and reports
- Programming data acquisition software
- Data reduction
- Planning instrumentation and strain gauges
- Instrumentation and equipment calibration
- Designing test facilities and/or acting as a liaison to outside sources providing test facilities
- Conducting weight and balance and maintaining records
- Conducting ground/flight tests, including pilot coordination and pre/post flight briefings as required
- Coordination and preparation of test conformities and TIA activities
- Coordinating test activities with certification agencies (FAA, etc.)
- Preparing Type Inspection Reports
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