Maintenance Technician

ATEA; Westlake Village (CA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Stock Ownership Plan

Medical Insurance

Paid Time Off

Career Development

Disability insurance

Incentive opportunities

Job summary

ATEA Technologies is seeking a hands-on Maintenance Technician to support a program using unmanned systems for data collection. The role focuses on maintaining, repairing, and building mobile shelters for test events and involves moving shelters to sites and ensuring proper function.

Candidates should bring broad fabrication experience and strong mechanical aptitude, with welding and basic electrical skills.

Qualifications

• Candidate must be a US Citizen and meet eligibility to obtain (and maintain) a Secret Clearance.
• Experience in a similar maintenance role with maintenance and assembly of similar hardware.
• Basic welding to fabricate and repair components.
• Preferred strong electrical experience; CA Electrical License a plus.
• Forklift Certification is preferred (ability to obtain one is required).
• Basic computer aptitude and strong communication skills preferred.

Responsibilities

• Sanding, painting, and rust proofing mobile shelters.
• Metal fabrication, including welding.
• Basic electrical work, configuring ground stations after installation.
• Disassembling, packing, shipping and re-assembling mobile shelters (travel is required).

Skills

Fabrication

Mechanical aptitude

Welding

Electrical work

Forklift certification

Computer aptitude

Communication skills

Job description

ATEA Technologies is looking to add a Maintenance Technician to support a program using unmanned systems to acquire test data across various ranges. The position will help maintain, repair, and build mobile shelters used for test events. Candidate will also be instrumental in preparing and moving shelters to test sites, including installing and ensuring they function properly. This hands‑on position will need to bring a broad fabrication background and a strong mechanical aptitude.

Tasking will include:

• Sanding, painting, and rust proofing mobile shelters
• Metal fabrication, including welding
• Basic electrical work, specifically configuring ground stations after installation
• Dissembling, packing, shipping and re‑assembling mobile shelters (travel is required)

Requirements:

• Candidate must be a US Citizen and meet eligibility to obtain (and maintain) a Secret Clearance
• Demonstrated experience in a similar maintenance type role – specifically required maintenance and assembly of similar hardware
• Basic welding experience in order to fabricate and repair components
• Preferred candidate will have strong electrical experience (CA Electrical License is a plus)
• Forklift Certification is preferred (ability to obtain one is required)
• Candidates with basic computer aptitude and strong communication skills are preferred

About ATEA Tech:

We leverage the predictive capability of our high‑fidelity computational physics solvers, indigenous massively parallel supercomputer system, prototyping plant, and ballistics and mechanics lab to investigate a variety of high‑rate physics phenomena.

The results are complex engineering solutions for a variety of applications, aircraft, ballistic missile defense, cybersecurity, motorsports, armor development, biological systems, and missile and warhead design and development. These results are achieved with optimal design and cost efficiency due to the predictive capability of our in‑house tools and end‑to‑end integrated approach.

Benefits:

• Employee Stock Ownership Plan via our generous 401(k) Matching
• Medical Insurance via Blue Cross - including a PPO and High-Deductible offering (with company HSA contribution)
• Paid Time Off (PTO) based on years of industry experience (not tenure)
• Career Development and Continuing Education opportunities
• Company provided life, long‑term and short‑term disability insurance
• Incentive opportunities to reward strong performance and corporate growth