Quality Assurance Engineering Technician (NASA Ballon Program)

Peraton; Palestine (TX); On-site; USD 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton seeks a Quality Assurance Engineering Technician for NASA's Balloon Operations Contract (NBOC) in Palestine, TX. The role focuses on developing and maintaining quality systems, applying QA methods, and collaborating with engineering and manufacturing to ensure product quality.

Candidates must have a High School diploma or GED, 4 years of QA experience, and be able to pass a background check including NASA PIV and drug screening. Peraton operates CSBF facilities with global mission scope.

Qualifications

• High School diploma or GED is required.
• Four years of related experience with Quality Assurance is required.
• US citizenship is required.
• Background check and NASA PIV background check and drug screen are required.

Responsibilities

• Determines if current methods meet reliability standards or require modification.
• Develops and maintains quality evaluation and control systems for processing materials into finished products.
• Collaborates with engineering and manufacturing to ensure quality standards are in place.
• Ensures inspection, testing, and evaluation procedures comply with guidance; conducts quality assurance tests and statistical analyses.
• Specializes in design, incoming material, production control, product evaluation and reliability as they apply to quality.

Skills

Quality Assurance experience

US Citizenship

Education

High School diploma or GED

Job description

Required Qualifications:

• High School diploma or GED certificate.
• Four years of related experience with Quality Assurance
• Must be a US Citizen
• Mustbe able to pass a background check to obtain a NASA Personal Identity Verification card (PIV) background check and drug screen required.

Peraton provides management and technical support for NASA's scientific balloon program which supports enabling science missions for NASA and universities across the United States and foreign scientific communities. Scientific balloon missions provide researchers inexpensive, relatively quick, long duration access to near space altitudes and environments. Balloon missions cost orders of magnitude less than satellite missions and provide platforms for heavy experiments (some greater than 5000-lbs) to operate for weeks and even months. Balloon missions have provided significant science theories and discoveries about cosmic rays, gamma ray and x-ray astronomy, optical and UV astronomy, atmospheric sciences, and cosmic microwave background studies.

Our staff are located at the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility (CSBF) in Palestine, TX where we design, analyze, build and assembly the support hardware and balloon gondola payloads for the missions. We launch the balloons from locations within the United States (Texas, New Mexico, and Hawaii) and around the world including Antarctica, Sweden, New Zealand, and Australia. Our engineers and technician staff support the launches and balloon and payload recoveries in the US and many worldwide locations. Peraton's NASA Balloon Operations Contract (NBOC) program is seeking a Quality Assurance Engineering Technician to join our team in Palestine, Texas.

Our rural campus offers the ability to work in a low-cost of living area, but within an easy drive of Tyler, Dallas and Houston.

Responsibilities of the position:

• Determines if current methods and techniques result in meeting reliability standards or require modification.
• Develops, modifies, applies, and maintains quality evaluation and control systems and protocols for processing materials into partially finished or finished materials product.
• Collaborates with engineering and manufacturing functions to ensure quality standards are in place.
• Ensures methods and procedures for inspecting, testing, and evaluating the precision and accuracy of products and production equipment are compliant with guidance; conducts quality assurance tests; and performs statistical analysis to assess the cost of and determine the responsibility for, products or materials that do not meet required standards and specifications.
• May specialize in the areas of design, incoming material, production control, product evaluation and reliability, inventory control and/or research and development as they apply to product or process quality.