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Flight and Ground Test Support Engineer

PeopleTec


Job Location:

Huntsville, AL - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 17 June 2026 (30+ days ago)
Application Deadline: 14 September 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Opportunity

PeopleTec is currently seeking a Flight and Ground Test Support Engineerto support our Huntsville AL location.

PeopleTec is currently seeking an experienced engineer to support the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Joint U.S.-Israeli Cooperative Program Office in Huntsville Alabama.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

  • General Engineering Support
  • Analyze and interpret engineering data and documentation to identify and document issues recommend solutions and ensure engineering and technical rigor
  • Participate in program status reviews technical interchange meetings working groups test reviews engineering meetings and other meetings and working groups as assigned
  • Author and/or edit documents including senior-level briefings; technical/programmatic risk packages; engineering white papers; documents on behalf of the Program Manager Chief Systems Engineer or Chief Engineer; failure investigation reports and other documents/reports as required
  • Prepare technical and programmatic risk packages and technical reports
  • Production and Manufacturing Support
  • Support and/or lead on-site evaluations at manufacturing facilities including Production Line Validations and report production progress and/or issues and assist in production issue resolution
  • Support and/or lead weapon production/manufacturing tasks including Industrial Capability and Manufacturing Readiness Assessments First Article Inspections and Production Readiness Reviews
  • Analyze production processes and provide recommendations to increase production efficiency
  • Review and provide analysis of production data and documentation
  • Work with U.S. industry partners to facilitate our Israeli procurement and production interests

Secondary Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Flight and Ground Test Support
  • Provide flight and ground test engineering support and technical expertise including analyses of test plans instrumentation environmental factors and critical safety elements
  • Provide engineering analyses of hardware and test data to support failure investigations and debrief key personnel on results
  • Support ground and flight test activities at various CONUS and OCONUS test locations including analyzing test planning and design test requirements test execution and post-test data
Qualifications

Required Skills/Experience:

  • A proactive self-starter with excellent people organizational and communication skills
  • Ability to plan coordinate and conduct missile system engineering tasks and submit required documentation in a fast-paced rapidly changing environment
  • Experience in the design development testing or production of missile defense systems
  • Works independently and/or leads teams applying engineering rigor to analyze/resolve problems
  • Experience generating briefings white papers and presenting information at the executive level
  • Excellent people organizational management and leadership skills
  • Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite and Adobe Acrobat
  • Possess or can obtain a U.S. Passport
  • 15% to 30% to various locations within the United States and overseas to include contractor and government facilities manufacturing and integration sites and test locations
  • The position is full-time at government site
  • Must be a U.S. Citizen
  • An active DoD Secret clearance is required to perform this work. Candidates are required to have an active Secret clearance upon hire (at minimum) and the ability to maintain this level of clearance during their employment.

Education Requirements:

  • Bachelors in STEM field with 7 years of experience working on missile defense-related or other complex large DoD programs/projects

Desired Skills:

  • Capable of leading and executing extensive engineering support on systems system elements interfacing systems components devices and/or processes for complex developmental and operational weapon system programs
  • Capable of leading implementation of system engineering processes across a program acquisition life cycle
  • Knowledge of manufacturing and production industry standards
  • Experience with weapon system production and delivery
  • Experience generating briefings white papers and presenting information at the executive level
  • Experience interacting and supporting senior-level government customers
  • Knowledge of Missile Defense Agency policies procedures and organization
Overview

People First. Technology Always.

PeopleTec Inc. is an employee-owned small business founded in Huntsville AL that provides exceptional customer support by employing and retaining a highly skilled workforce.

Culture: The name PeopleTec was deliberately chosen to remind us of our core value system - our people. Our companys foundation was built on placing our employees and customers first. With an award-winning atmosphere we have matured into a company that boasts the best and brightest across multiple technical fields.

Career: At PeopleTec we value your long-term goals. Whether its through our continuing-education opportunities our robust training programs or our People First benefits package PeopleTec truly believes that our best investments are our people.

Come Experience It.

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EEO Statement

PeopleTec Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in its job application procedures. If you have any difficulty using our online system and you need an accommodation due to a disability you may use the following email address and/or phone number (256.319.3800) to contact us about your interest in employment with PeopleTec Inc.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age genetic information citizenship ancestry marital status protected veteran status disability status or any other status protected by federal state or local law. PeopleTec Inc. participates in E-Verify.


Required Experience:

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