Test Technician/Principal Test Technician

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history. Northrop Grumman is a leading designer, producer and supplier of spacecraft components that power and enable satellites of all classes. Products include spacecraft panels, bus structures, precision optical structures, deployable structural systems and mechanisms, solar arrays and antenna reflectors. Our products are on virtually every U.S. satellite built in the last 20 years. Visit our website to learn More about the Missions Enabled Products (MEP) More Space | Northrop Grumman Our Commerce, CA location is seeking a Test Technician 2/3. NG, Commerce is the leading supplier of pressure vessels and tank hardware to the aerospace industry. This is a Test Technician position supporting the Pressure, Flow, and Dynamic Load Test functions at NG, Commerce. The test engineering group performs physical and mechanical verification of spaceflight hardware fabricated for aerospace applications. Primary responsibilities of the position are as follows: Handling, Setup, and Testing of aerospace hardware, primarily consisting of pressure vessel assemblies. Perform test fixture setup and validation. Support all qualification and acceptance testing of tank hardware, including pressure and flow tests. Support physical and/or static load tests and document into customer deliverable reports. Support execution of environmental testing, including test setup, filling and draining of hardware, pressurization, test environment application, and test break down. Assist vendors with safe handling and processing of pressure vessel hardware. Support continuous improvement and lean initiative tasks including current state process definition, identification of non-value-added activity and future state planning. Communicate with internal management and customers related to Test execution.