Engineering Technician (Secret) - Palm Bay, FL - JP7514

We've determined which skillsets are most beneficial for this role. These skills are listed first below as the Must Haves and Nice to Haves our hiring team highly prefers. Below that you'll find the standard job description for this opportunity.

Must Haves:

• High School Diploma or GED required
• Cable and harness installation, routing and cable management, cable mate/demate experience
• Mechanical assembly and test of hardware including ESD sensitive hardware
• Hardware integration
• Rigging/overhead crane,
• Preparation for and conducting system level hardware testing (deployments, environments testing, etc.).
• Performing system level alignments to meet system requirements
• Field support for launch vehicle integration only during a one-week timeframe at the end of the year.
• Move equipment weighing 45 pounds or less from one place to another-anything over this is a two-person lift
• Occasional repetitive movements during specified durations.
• Manual dexterity, motor skills and situational awareness to handle and manufacture space hardware.
• Cable routing and wire harness
• Basic computer skills
• Work well with a team.
• Well organized, resourceful, multi-tasker.
• Strong attention to detail.

Nice to Haves:

• Experience using torque driver, power supply.
• Small hand tools.
• Mixing and applying adhesives

Job Description:
Performs a variety of duties in the electronic, mechanical, electromechanical, and/or optical areas. Assists in the design, construction, test and check-out of test equipment. Constructs, troubleshoots, calibrates, adjusts, tests, diagnoses, and maintains equipment, components, devices, or systems. Works from schematics, operating or repair manuals, engineering drawings and written or verbal instructions. May work with complex machines or computer systems. Operates related equipment; conducts tests and reports data in prescribed format. Performs calibration and alignment checks; adjusts, modifications, and replacements as directed; prepares prescribed compounds and solutions.

Overall Summary

• Fully proficient support individual contributors.
• Works under limited supervision.
• May be a resource to other employees in areas of expertise.
• Assignments are moderately difficult requiring some judgment.

Nature of Supervision

• Works under limited supervision.
• Less detailed instructions are provided, and minimal peer review is required.

Communication & Influence

• Communicates with contacts typically within and outside the department on matters that involve obtaining or providing information requiring explanation or interpretation to understand and reach agreement.
• May be a resource to other employees in areas of proficiency.

Innovation & Complexity

• Work may be structured within identified boundaries and procedures.
• Follows established processes to complete tasks. Identifies problems and issues in straightforward situations. Resolves most issues.

Organization Impact

• Works to achieve operational targets within the job area which has a moderate impact on the overall achievement of results for the team. Work is of moderate scope, typically on larger, task-related activities.

Education & Experience

• Requires fully proficient job knowledge/skills.
• Requires a High School Diploma or equivalent and a minimum of 6 years of prior relevant experience or 2 years post-Secondary/associate degree with a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience.

Essential Functions:

• Support of Space Vehicle satellite manufacturing
• Individual contributor responsibilities with limited supervision
• Following engineering drawings and defined manufacturing processes.
• Navigating and working to paperless work instructions (MES)
• Lead complex tasks when needed. Contribute to pre task briefings
• Flexibility to work overtime/nights/weekends and alternate shifts
• Cable and harness installation, routing and cable management, cable mate/demate operations
• Mechanical assembly and test of space hardware including ESD sensitive hardware.
• System level hardware integration.
• Rigging/overhead crane and forklift operation,
• Preparation for and conducting system level hardware testing (deployments, environments testing, etc.).
• Performing system level alignments to meet system requirements
• Field support for launch vehicle integration
• Move equipment weighing 45 pounds or less from one place to another.
• Repetitive movements during specified durations.
• Manual dexterity, motor skills and situational awareness to handle and manufacture space hardware.

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