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# Member/Senior Test Operations Engineer, Experimental Operations - Onsite

- **Company:** Sandia Corporation
- **Location:** Albuquerque, NM, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $102,400.0 - $199,700.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Data Analysis, Configuration Management, Computer Simulation, Automation of Marketing, Requirements Management, Subsystems, System-level Testing
- **Published:** August 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.techcareers.com/job.asp?id=3339346321&tx=KP505PFK&pt=1&aff=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54&utm_source=Job%20Feed&utm_medium=textkernel&utm_campaign=DE&utm_term=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54

## About the Role

* Bachelor's or Master's degree in relevant field, or equivalent combination of relevant education and/or experience.
 * Knowledge of project management practices for technical work, such as developing project plans, work breakdown structures, and work packages; managing to scope, schedule, budget, and technical baselines; or documenting baseline reports and change control actions.
 * Requires a Department of Energy (DOE) Q security clearance to start, or equivalent active security clearance with another U.S. government agency (e.g., DOD)., * Experience in gathering and analyzing data; facilitating decision making and problem solving.
 * Understand technical tasks sufficiently to identify time requirements, task dependencies, and risks and opportunities.
 * Experience in developing risk mitigation strategies and implementing them in accordance with corporate engineered safety policies/practices.
 * Experience operating in ambiguous, interrupt-driven, and dynamic environment with evolving requirements, expectations, and organizational needs.
 * Experience with SNL Project Management tools and projects to include budgets.
 * Ability to cross train and support other areas in Group 01530 such as Asset Management, Facility Work Plans, Work Planning and Controls, Programmatic equipment management, SDR coverage for support contractors, Moderate Hazard operations and other special duties as assigned.

## Description

VQSEC (Validation and Qualification Sciences Experimental Complex) is seeking an experienced Test Operations Engineer.

The successful candidate will provide operational support to Group 01530. You will work with a dynamic team of researchers, engineers, technologists, and trades people to help support execution of unique experiments. These experiments will play a key role in solving challenging national security problems relating to a wide range of applications by providing insight into physical phenomena, data for validating computer models, and qualifying performance of complex systems. This position will play a key role in operations at the VQSEC facilities in Sandia's Tech Area III.

On any given day, you may be called on to:

 * Develops project plans and carries out project management.
 * Prepares test, maintenance, operations, and administrative procedures to support all operations at hazardous facilities.
 * Reviews and helps prepare the safety basis documentation that enables hazardous facilities to operate.
 * Coordinates operational, functional, and performance phases of tests.
 * Plans the labor and scheduling for testing to include cost estimation.
 * Prepares or supports the creation of documentation for test operations to include WP&C and other project execution documents.
 * Plans and schedules engineering projects for internal and external customers, coordinating as required with work performed in other internal and external organizations.
 * Supports new efforts around DataSEA and capability documentation and tracking.
 * Develops and delivers technical progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation, and presentations.
 * Manage and execute operational budgets., * Structural and thermal analysis supporting experimental design
 * Hazard and system safety analysis
 * Execution of tests and experiments in controlled mechanical, energetic, and thermal environments, including set up and dismantlement
 * Operation and maintenance of one-of-a-kind facilities including the Aerial Cable Facility, Burn Site, Rocket Sled Track Complex, and Thermal Test Complex

Department personnel collaborate with test directors, test and safety engineers, and instrumentation, photometric, and data acquisition personnel to ensure the infrastructure and facilities necessary to conduct subsystem and system level tests and experiments in normal and abnormal environments are available.

 * Additionally, the department provides mission assurance in the form of:
 * Risk assessments and failure mode analysis;
 * Design engineering processes support
 * Leadership in the integration of standard business practices across the VQSEC
 * Administration of the ES&H program for the Engineering Sciences Center (1500)
 * Management of the VQSEC test support contractors and training program; and configuration management of VQSEC moderate hazard facilities., Position requires a Department of Energy (DOE) Q security clearance to start, or equivalent active security clearance with another U.S. government agency (e.g., DOD). Sandia is required by DOE directive to conduct a pre-employment drug test and background review that includes checks of personal references, credit, law enforcement records, and employment/education verifications. Applicants for employment need to be able to maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship. If you hold more than one citizenship (i.e., of the U.S. and another country), your ability to obtain a security clearance may be impacted.

Applicants offered employment with Sandia are subject to a federal background investigation to meet the requirements for access to classified information or matter if the duties of the position require a DOE security clearance. Substance abuse or illegal drug use, falsification of information, criminal activity, serious misconduct or other indicators of untrustworthiness can cause a clearance to be denied or terminated by DOE, resulting in the inability to perform the duties assigned and subsequent termination of employment.


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