Spaceflight Test Technician – Electrical/Mechanical

L3Harris Technologies; Fort Wayne (IN); On-site; USD 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

L3Harris Technologies is seeking an Engineering Technician to support the Operations Test Group in Fort Wayne, IN. You will work with a diverse team on the assembly, integration, and test of spaceflight hardware ranging from low to high complexity.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in a procedure-driven test environment, operate common test equipment, troubleshoot both mechanically and electrically, and support test setup, maintenance, calibration, and teardown.

Qualifications

• Requires a High School Diploma or equivalent and a minimum of 6 years of prior relevant experience or 2 years post-Secondary/associate’s degree with a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience.
• Ability to obtain work in confined spaces or a clean room environment for long periods of time (> 2 hours).
• Ability to work holidays, weekends, and occasional overnight travel; work may include shift work.
• Must be able to obtain a US security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Support subsystem-level and payload-level testing of electrical, mechanical, optical, and cable harness assemblies.
• Execute test activities in accordance with approved technical procedures, work instructions, and safety requirements.
• Operate common test equipment such as power supplies, digital multimeters, oscilloscopes, and other bench-top equipment.
• Support setup, operation, maintenance, verification, calibration, validation, and teardown of test equipment and test configurations.
• Perform mechanical and electrical troubleshooting of test equipment, support equipment, and hardware-related issues.
• Coordinate with test engineering, facilities, EHS, quality, vendors, and program teams to support failure troubleshooting, maintenance planning, process improvement, and problem resolution.
• Support critical hardware/equipment movements, clean room and test area maintenance, non-standard shifts, overtime, and travel between L3Harris sites and customer locations as required.
• Ability to travel up to 30% as required to support customer product testing.
• Must be able to obtain a US security clearance.

Skills

Attention to detail

Ownership

Clear communication

Flexibility for shifts/travel

Education

High School Diploma or equivalent

Associate's degree (2 years post-secondary)

Tools

Digital multimeters

Oscilloscopes

Power supplies

Bench-top equipment

Torque wrenches

Micrometers

Calipers

Job description

L3Harris Technologies is seeking an Engineering Technician to support the Operations Test Group in Fort Wayne, IN. You will work with a diverse team on the assembly, integration, and test of spaceflight hardware ranging from low to high complexity.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in a procedure-driven test environment, operate common test equipment, troubleshoot both mechanically and electrically, and support test setup, maintenance, calibration, and teardown.