Engineering Technician A

Job Title: Engineering Technician A

Job ID: 37805

Job Location: Orange, VA

Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

Our Engineering Technicians provide valuable assistance to engineers by their ability to reduce engineering concepts and ideas to practice in a laboratory environment. They are able to create, fabricate, modify, repair, assemble, and disassemble articles to make models, prototypes or test articles. They also are able to set up and conduct procedures in accordance with specification requirements under environmentally controlled conditions (temperature, humidity, environment, etc). They assist engineers in being able to follow specification procedures and instructions in the development process by demonstrating the production readiness and maturity of the processes envisioned by the engineers, such as adhesive bonding of specimens, composite lay-up of components, insulating prototypes, and/or producing experimental/production batches of energetic/Inert compounds.

Essential Functions:

• Under close/moderate supervision the candidate will perform tasks that are required to support development and production test schedules.

• Detailed instructions are provided with close to moderate peer review required.

• Contributes to systems and process changes in work routines. 

• Works to achieve operational targets and test schedules.

Qualifications:

• High school diploma or equivalent with 0-3 years prior related experience or a secondary/Associates degreee with 0-2 years prior related experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Ability to work in a laboratory environment.

• Ability to follow detailed work instrucitons.

• Proficient computer skills, i.e. Microsoft Excel.