Spaceflight Manufacturing Mechanical Engineer, Associate

ASRC Federal Holding Company; Merritt Island (FL); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

ASRC Federal Holding Company seeks an ORION Manufacturing Mechanical Engineer, Associate at Kennedy Space Center, FL. You will develop procedures and scripts for subsystem testing and conduct extensive integration tests on flight hardware and ground systems.

The role requires a B.S. in mechanical engineering (or equivalent) with 0–2 years of experience and U.S. citizenship. Collaboration across engineering, planning, and quality teams is essential, with occasional extended hours as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or related discipline or equivalent experience/combined education and 0-2 years of experience.
• Must be a U.S. citizen.
• Experience with assembly, integration, and test of ground support equipment and/or flight hardware subsystems onto a Flight Spacecraft.
• Knowledge/experience with automated test software, manufacturing processes, and the manufacturing test environment.
• Fundamental knowledge of spacecraft/aerospace test operations.
• Experience with system integration, troubleshooting, and design tasks.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with an ability to develop and maintain effective cross- functional relationships and an ability to work and lead in a team environment.
• Solid engineering skills/foundation including problem/anomaly identification, analysis, resolution and closure in support of testing.
• Experience generating test plans and test procedures for spacecraft HW.
• Willing to support extended work hours when required.

Responsibilities

• Develop procedures, test software scripts and other documentation needed to conduct subsystem and system level testing.
• Conduct a wide range of integration and test activities involving flight hardware and ground systems.
• Collaborate with other engineering disciplines, program management, planning, quality, safety and CPEs.

Skills

GSE testing

Spacecraft test ops

System integration

Troubleshooting

Cross-functional collaboration

Test plan development

Shell/Bash scripting

Python scripting

Perl scripting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering

Tools

Automation Framework

Test software environments

Spacecraft telemetry software

Job description

ASRC Federal Holding Company seeks an ORION Manufacturing Mechanical Engineer, Associate at Kennedy Space Center, FL. You will develop procedures and scripts for subsystem testing and conduct extensive integration tests on flight hardware and ground systems.

The role requires a B.S. in mechanical engineering (or equivalent) with 0–2 years of experience and U.S. citizenship. Collaboration across engineering, planning, and quality teams is essential, with occasional extended hours as needed.