Company Overview

ARA is a leading C5ISR company that designs, manufactures, tests and installs innovative technologies that provide the national security community with unparalleled situational awareness, threat detection, and communications capabilities.

Our disruptive, integrated solutions, assemblies and subsystems rise to the challenging demands of discerning, mission-critical customers.

We leverage our capabilities to meet and exceed the requirements of our customers and empower them to remain ahead of evolving threats and complexities in a dynamic security landscape.

Job Summary

The Operations Test Manager is responsible for overseeing and managing the scheduling and coordination of all engineering testing activities within the operations support team. This role involves working closely with various teams to ensure test schedules are aligned with project timelines. The Operations Test Engineering Manager is responsible for resource allocation, tracking test progress, managing any test-related issues, and ensuring that testing milestones are met efficiently. The role requires excellent organizational and communication skills to drive productivity, maintain quality standards, and support continuous improvement initiatives. This will drive optimization of resource assignments and provide a single authority for test planning and priority assignment activities.

Essential Functions:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Develop,maintainandactondepartmentmetrics.
• Managetesttechniciansandoperatorsthatsupporttheexecutionoftestactivitiesinsupportofdeliverables.
• Manage test equipment prioritization, maintenance schedules to realize on-time deliveries to customers.
• Reviewandapprovetestplansandprocedures.
• Developdirectreportsskillsetgrowthtosupportthefutureneedsofthebusiness.
• Manage test personnel including hiring, training, performance and evaluations.

Position Qualifications

Competency Statement (s)

• Adaptability - Adapts to change, open to new ideas and responsibilities.
• Communication - Ability to communicate thoughts clearly, both oral and written.
• Job Knowledge - Understands Facets of job, aware of duties and responsibilities, keeps job knowledge current.
• Dependability Meets deadlines, works independently, accountable, maintains focus, good attendance record.
• Quality - Strives to eliminate errors, accurate work is a priority, seeks opportunities to improve products/services.
• Ethics - Honest, accountable, maintains confidentiality.
• Initiative - Ability to take on task before being asked.
• Decision Making- Able to reach a decision, takes thoughtful approach when considering options, seeks input from others, makes difficult decisions.
• Customer Service - Works well with customers, promotes a positive image of the company, strive to solve issues raised by customers.

Experience and Skills

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.

• Abilitytoreadandinterprettestspecifications,ATP'sandworkflowstoprovideinstructionstotestpersonneltomeetthe goals of the team.
• Abilitytocommunicateresourceschedulinganddesiredoutputofthetestteam.
• Previousexperiencewithantennasystemmeasurementsincludingtheuseofnetworkanalyzersandchambersishighly preferred.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a technical field and 5 years of related experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience

Antenna Research Associates, Inc. and its subsidiaries encourage diversity in the workplace; we are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Race/Color/Gender/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Veteran