Electrician (supporting NASA)

ASRC Federal; Wallops Island (VA); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

ASRC Federal Facilities Logistics, LLC, a subsidiary of ASRC Federal, seeks an Electrician to support our Prime NASA program at Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, VA. The role demands expertise in electrical systems for aircraft research, space launch operations and associated facilities.

Responsibilities include troubleshooting during countdowns, installing power systems, reading blueprints, and maintaining grounding and safety practices to ensure mission success.

Qualifications

• Requires completing an electrical apprentice program or technical school, or five years journeyman level experience.
• Ability to read blueprints, wiring diagrams and schematics; knowledge of current electrical codes and safety practices.

Responsibilities

• Locate and remedy malfunctions during countdown stages to prevent mission impairment.
• Modify, repair and install electrical power systems, power supplies, converters and generators to meet customer needs.
• Inspect and service electrical controls, safety devices, and electronic equipment used in aircraft and space launch activities.
• Test and repair motors, transformers, relays, and related electrical components in harsh environments.
• Maintain extensive grounding systems for explosives handling and space launch facilities.
• Install, troubleshoot and maintain feeders, cabling and distribution equipment from low to high voltages.
• Inspect gasoline, diesel and turbine engine-powered generators (25–750 kW) as primary power sources for projects worldwide.

Skills

Blueprint reading

Electrical troubleshooting

Safety practices

Power systems

Education

Electrical apprentice program

Technical school

Job description

ASRC Federal Facilities Logistics, LLC, a subsidiary of ASRC Federal, is seeking an Electrician to support our Prime NASA program at Wallops Flight Facility at Wallops Island, VA.

EXPERIENCE/ TRAINING:

• Must meet all Core Job Specifications.
• Must have completed a recognized electrical apprentice program or technical school or have five (5) years of experience at the journeyman level as an electrician.
• Must be knowledgeable and skilled to apply electrical practices to cope with problems arising from unique and unconventional equipment, facilities, and systems used in support of aircraft research activities and space launch ballistics, including clean room, payload checkout facilities, laboratory setups, and vibration test facilities, environmental chambers, gun mounts, radar, telemetry, photographic and data acquisition and reduction equipment.
• Must read and interpret blueprints, wiring diagrams, and schematics and be cognizant of current electrical codes, standards, and safety practices, and the latest materials, tools, and techniques used in performance of electrical practices.

SPECIAL SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Adds or removes components, effects design changes, modifies, repairs, and improvises to fill unforeseen and immediate needs; overcomes unprecedented operational difficulties, provides redundant power sources, devise methods of cycling, timing, sequencing, filtering, and controlling AC and DC current of varying voltages and frequencies.
• Locates and remedies malfunctions occurring during the critical countdown stages when loss of a circuit or system would impair the mission.
• Performs periodic ground check evaluations, corrects faults, and installs extensive grounding systems particular to explosives handling, aircraft operations, and space launch activities.
• Modifies, redesigns, and installs electrical power systems, power supplies, converters, generators, timing and synchronizing devices, photoelectric cells, filters, governors, step controllers, electronic programmers, relays, transformers, and voltage regulators, to meet the needs of the customer, which may be foreign made equipment of different frequencies and/or voltages other than those of American design.
• Inspects, repairs, and installs electronic controls, programmers, and safety devices as used in the operation of machine tools, high and low pressure boilers, and pumping systems.
• Services and troubleshoots various types of servo systems; mechanical, electrical and electronic devices and control systems; installs, repairs, and maintains overhead and underground electrical feeders, control, instrumentation, and communications cabling from very low control voltages to 480 volts.
• Installs, maintains, and repairs components of secondary distribution systems consisting of transformer oil and air circuit breakers, capacitors, fused cutouts, overload trip devices, bus bars, and other vital equipment much of which is exposed to harsh environments.
• Inspect, tests, evaluates, repairs, and regulates gasoline, diesel, and turbine engine-powered electric generating units from 25 to 750 KW used as primary power sources for projects locally and throughout the world. Such units must have a high degree of reliability and precise control.
• Performs shop work in testing, evaluating, and repairing electrical motors, switches, transformers, electronic programmers, power tools, etc.