Senior Aerospace Electrical Technician - Flight Harness

General Atomics; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 63,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance provided

Job summary

General Atomics in Herndon, VA is seeking an Electrical Technician to join the CSS group, contributing to fabrication, testing, and integration of flight and ground hardware. You will read design drawings, assemble, and wire equipment, building harnesses and soldering PCBs under time-critical conditions.

The role requires an associate degree or equivalent with seven or more years of experience, US citizenship, and ability to obtain a DoD Top Secret clearance.

Qualifications

• Typically requires associate's degree or equivalent with seven or more years of experience.
• US Citizenship is required, as is the ability to obtain/maintain a DOD Top Secret clearance.
• Technical training and/or experience in the military or aerospace industry is highly desirable.
• Extensive soldering experience including IPC J-STD-001, Requirements for Soldered Electrical and Electronic Assemblies, Certification.
• Ability and willingness to work on systems which have unusual conditions such as high pressure, high voltage, high energy, cryogens, or radioactive materials.
• Experience fabricating and testing harness assemblies used for flight and non-flight applications.
• Experience working with electrical schematics and mechanical diagrams.
• Capable of performing material bonding or staking operations using aerospace adhesives, epoxies, and coatings.
• Experienced with common shop tools, drill press, bandsaw and CNC machining operation.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to create detailed work instructions for complex hardware.
• Ability to work in a clean room and hazardous operations per OSHA.
• Willingness to travel 0–25% and support spacecraft launch campaigns.
• Experience using Word, Excel, Visio and CAD software.

Responsibilities

• Performs or assists in fabrication, modification, assembly, installation, operations, repair and maintenance of moderately complex laboratory, experimental and commercial equipment.
• Read and comprehend design drawings and specifications necessary to assemble, integrate and test complex flight and non-flight systems.
• Consults with engineering on the design of equipment or tests; sets up and conducts moderately complex experiments and tests; post process data and summarize results.
• Efficiently build, assemble, and wire electronic equipment; fabricate harnesses and cables; solder PCBs and subassemblies.
• Co-create work instructions documenting the assembly and integration process of flight and non-flight hardware.
• Set up Ground Support Equipment (GSE) and facilities for production runs.
• Interact daily with management, engineers, and technical leads on issues and status updates.
• Proactively identifies operation or equipment problems and assists in troubleshooting activities.
• Observe OSHA and environmental regulations wherever business is conducted.
• Help maintain a clean, organized work area; return tools and materials to storage.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Skills

Soldering

Reading schematics

Electrical assembly

Fabrication

Test & debugging

Documentation

GSE setup

Education

Associate's degree or equivalent

Tools

Word

Excel

Visio

CAD software

Job description

General Atomics in Herndon, VA is seeking an Electrical Technician to join the CSS group, contributing to fabrication, testing, and integration of flight and ground hardware. You will read design drawings, assemble, and wire equipment, building harnesses and soldering PCBs under time-critical conditions.

The role requires an associate degree or equivalent with seven or more years of experience, US citizenship, and ability to obtain a DoD Top Secret clearance.