Avionics Qualification Lab Technician (Onsite)

Prattwhitney; Maryland; On-site; USD 53,000 - 101,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Vacation days

401(k) plan

Job summary

RTX seeks an Avionics Qualification Lab Technician to support operation, maintenance, and hardware in the avionics lab. You will translate engineering drawings into test configurations, maintain equipment inventory, and help ensure secure storage and audit readiness.

The role involves building, wiring, troubleshooting, and improving lab test environments, with a focus on avionics hardware integration and RF test support. Onsite work and a structured interview process are expected.

Qualifications

• AA/AS degree (or other 2-year post high school training) with a minimum of 6 years of relevant experience.
• Hands-on avionics, aircraft electrical, aerospace electronics, test-lab, or comparable experience.
• Demonstrated experience with avionics wiring, hardware integration, cable fabrication, or wire maintenance.
• Experience reading and working from schematics, wiring diagrams, pinouts, and system drawings.
• Hands-on experience with crimping, soldering, shielding, connector termination, and cable routing.
• Working experience with electrical power and safe integration practices for avionics equipment.
• Practical troubleshooting experience at the wiring, cable, rack, equipment, and system-integration level.

Responsibilities

• Conduct routine inspections and preventive maintenance on lab equipment, racks, cabling, workstations, and support infrastructure.
• Maintain accurate equipment, configuration, calibration, maintenance, and inventory records.
• Support accountability for vendor-furnished and customer-owned equipment, including labeling, tracking, secure storage, and audit readiness.
• Assist with shipping, receiving, packing-list verification, material handling, and equipment movement.
• Integrate, rack, stack, wire, and configure avionics equipment within engineering lab environments.
• Turn engineering concepts, schematics, and system drawings into functional test setups.
• Troubleshoot physical integration issues involving signal paths, power, wiring, connectors, and lab interfaces.
• Work closely with the avionics test engineers to maintain stable, repeatable test configurations.

Skills

Avionics wiring

Cable fabrication

Schematic reading

Troubleshooting

Electrical power handling

Education

AA/AS degree

Tools

Visio

Job description

At RTX, the world's largest aerospace and defense company, 185,000 great minds are united by purpose and inspired to make a difference solving the world’s most complex problems. With our three market leading businesses, world-class operations and investments in research and development, we offer capabilities and opportunity no one else can. Together, we push the boundaries of known science and find new ways to connect and protect our world. Collins Aerospace is a leader in technologically advanced, intelligent solutions that help redefine the aerospace and defense industry. With a comprehensive portfolio and deep technical expertise, we help customers meet the demands of the global market. Join us and help shape the future of aerospace and defense.

The Avionics Qualification Lab Technician supports the operation, maintenance, and hardware support for our Avionics lab. The technician will work with Test engineers to translate engineering and system drawings into functional rack-based test configurations, support lab readiness, and help maintain accountability for equipment and materials. This is a hands-on role for someone who is comfortable building, wiring, troubleshooting, and improving physical avionics test environments. The successful candidate should understand avionics hardware well enough to integrate equipment safely, follow signal and power paths, identify issues, and collaborate effectively with test and integration engineers.

As part of our commitment to maintaining a secure hiring process, candidates may be asked to attend select steps of the interview process in-person at one of our office locations, regardless of whether the role is designated as onsite, hybrid or remote.

Role Type *Please ensure the role type defined below is appropriate for your needs before applying to this role. This position is classified as: Onsite: Employees who are working in Onsite roles will work primarily onsite. This includes all production and maintenance employees, as they are essential to the development of our products. Candidates will learn more about role type and current site status throughout the recruiting process. For onsite and hybrid roles, commuting to and from the assigned site is the employee’s personal responsibility.

RTX anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted. However, factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require RTX to shorten or extend the application window.

RTX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status, or any other applicable state or federal protected class. RTX provides affirmative action in employment for qualified Individuals with a Disability and Protected Veterans in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act.

If the successful candidate resides in a U.S. territory, the appropriate pay structure and benefits will apply.

The salary range for this role is 53,100 USD - 100,900 USD. The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels. RTX considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate’s work experience, location, education/training, and key skills.

RTX is an aerospace and defense company that provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide. It comprises three industry-leading businesses – Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon. Its 195,000 employees enable the company to operate at the edge of known science as they imagine and deliver solutions that push the boundaries in quantum physics, electric propulsion, directed energy, hypersonics, avionics and cybersecurity. The company, formed in 2020 through the combination of Raytheon Company and the United Technologies Corporation aerospace businesses, is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.

What You Will Do

Lab Operations, Property & Inventory

• Conduct routine inspections and preventive maintenance on lab equipment, racks, cabling, workstations, and support infrastructure.
• Maintain accurate equipment, configuration, calibration, maintenance, and inventory records.
• Support accountability for vendor-furnished and customer-owned equipment, including labeling, tracking, secure storage, and audit readiness.
• Assist with shipping, receiving, packing-list verification, material handling, and equipment movement.

Wiring, Harnesses & Hardware Fabrication

• Build, modify, inspect, and repair custom cable assemblies, harnesses, breakout boxes, and related hardware.
• Perform crimping, soldering, shielding, connector assembly, and wire routing.
• Read and interpret electrical schematics, pinouts, wiring diagrams, and system drawings.
• Create or update basic cable and system drawings using Visio or similar tools when needed.
• Apply safe wire maintenance and power-handling practices to protect personnel and equipment.
• Monitor bench stock, consumables, and commonly used wire-maintenance materials; identify replenishment needs.
• Help maintain a clean, organized, safe, and customer-ready laboratory.

Avionics Hardware Integration

• Integrate, rack, stack, wire, and configure avionics equipment within engineering lab environments.
• Turn engineering concepts, schematics, and system drawings into functional test setups.
• Troubleshoot physical integration issues involving signal paths, power, wiring, connectors, and lab interfaces.
• Work closely with the avionics test engineers to maintain stable, repeatable test configurations.

RF & Communications Test Support

• Support testing involving VHF, HF, SATCOM, datalink, and other avionics communications systems.
• Use spectrum analyzers, oscilloscopes, signal generators, and equivalent test equipment.
• Perform or assist with cable-loss, return-loss, VSWR, signal-integrity, and distance-to-fault measurements.
• Understand basic RF behavior and safely support RF test paths across a variety of frequencies.
• Assist with controlled lab testing while partnering with engineers who perform deeper data analysis and demodulation.

Qualifications You Must Have

• AA/AS degree (or other 2-year post high school training) with a minimum of 6 years of relevant experience.
• Hands-on avionics, aircraft electrical, aerospace electronics, test-lab, or comparable experience.
• Demonstrated experience with avionics wiring, hardware integration, cable fabrication, or wire maintenance.
• Experience reading and working from schematics, wiring diagrams, pinouts, and system drawings.
• Hands-on experience with crimping, soldering, shielding, connector termination, and cable routing.
• Working experience with electrical power and safe integration practices for avionics equipment.
• Practical troubleshooting experience at the wiring, cable, rack, equipment, and system-integration level.

Qualifications We Prefer

• Commercial/transport aircraft avionics, aircraft electrician, aviation electronics, or related technical-school background.
• Experience supporting an avionics test bed or lab, flight-test environment, or aerospace research and development lab.
• Customer or Vendor property, inventory, shipping/receiving, or audit-readiness experience.
• Exposure to ARINC 429, IP, Ethernet, ACARS, or other avionics communication architectures.
• Experience with VHF, HF, SATCOM, or aircraft datalink systems.

What We Offer

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees.
• Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option.
• Tuition reimbursement program.
• Student Loan Repayment Program.
• Life insurance and disability coverage.
• Optional coverages you can buy pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection.
• Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits.
• Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning.
• Adoption Assistance.
• Autism Benefit.
• Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions.
• Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program.
• Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits.
• Bright Horizons, child and elder care services.
• Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program.
• And more!