Contractor - Electrical Engineering Technician (will consider all Sr. levels)
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Jacksonville, Florida, United States
Redwire is accelerating humanity’s expansion into space by delivering reliable, economical, and sustainable infrastructure for future generations.
Redwire Space Missions in Jacksonville, FL, is accelerating humanity's expansion into space through specializing in manufacturer high-reliability satellite technologies, solutions, and products. These cutting-edge capabilities address cost and performance limitations that are helping to revolutionize spaceflight and are currently being utilized on missions with NASA, the Department of Defense, and several commercial space companies.
Summary
We have a current opportunity for a Contractor PCB Test Engineering Technician for up to 3 months located at our facility in Jacksonville, FL. You will design the test plans, hardware and scripts required to validate deliverable space-grade hardware. Ensuring mission success by validating our hardware will work as intended in the extreme environmental conditions of outer space after a turbulent launch assent. You will have the opportunity to work on projects of all sizes including such high-profile programs as the human-rated Orion program.
Responsibilities
- Devises testing plan, methods, and equipment to assure reliability of product in conjunction with product design and specifications
- Participates in engineering design review efforts
- Produces reports on each test activity and tracks test metrics
- Drive failure analysis efforts including all documentation, technical analysis, instruction, management briefing, and customer interaction
- Plan and arranges the labor, schedules, and equipment required for testing and evaluating standard and special devices
- Provide test area and facility with parameters for testing and specifies tests to be performed
- Provide technical expertise and support across multiple programs and technologies as needed
- Responsible for testing all customer deliverable hardware and for special tests that cannot be performed in the test area
- Perform analysis, diagnostics, and preliminary evaluations of products
- Develop testing procedures and plans, including environmental testing, regression testing, dynamic testing, and scripted automation testing
- Monitor for continual test process improvement through failure analysis, throughput analysis, yield analysis, and report to management periodically
- Mentor and coach early career engineers
- Some minimal travel required
Ideal Experience
- High School diploma with 6+ years of experience.
- Professional experience in aerospace test engineering or related field
- Experience with basic scripting and automation
- Ability to support testing outside of business hours including overnight and weekends on occasion
Desired Skills
- Electrical testing experience. Ability to debug and deduce digital design issues with use of lab tools
- Experience with environmental testing, such as bench supplies, scopes, and logic analyzers with no support from more senior engineers
- Experience with resource management and scheduling
- PCB design (circuit design and board layout)
- Experience and understanding of AS9100 industry standard practices
- Failure analysis experience such as Ishikawa (fishbone), “5-Why”, etc.
- Knowledge of optics and/or optical testing highly desired
- Knowledge of lean manufacturing principles highly desired
- Experienced with frequent use and application of technical standards, principles, and theories
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Possess strong leadership skills and a resiliently positive attitude
- Basic MS Word & MS Excel competency (advanced MS Office & Office 365 skills a plus)
Grow with us as we innovate the next generation capabilities for a new era of space exploration! We offer a highly competitive benefits package along with a commitment to our core values of Integrity, Innovation, Impact, Inclusion, and Excellence.
Redwire is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Redwire is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
All offers of employment at Redwire are contingent upon clear results of a thorough background check and your ability to provide proof of eligibility to work in the US. Note that some positions will also require US citizenship or ability to obtain a security clearance due to requirements of a classified program.
To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR
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