Engineering Technician, Hardware Test
San Diego, California
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Job Title: Engineering Technician, Hardware Test
Job Code: 21017
Job Location: San Diego, CA
Job Schedule: On-site 9/80 Schedule (Every other Friday off!)
Job Description:
This is an hardware engineering technician position responsible for assisting in the design, construction, test and check-out of test equipment. Constructs, troubleshoots, adjusts, tests, diagnoses, and maintains equipment, components, devices, or systems. Works from schematics, engineering drawings and written or verbal instructions. May work with complex machines or computer systems. Operates related equipment; conducts tests and reports data in prescribed format. This team, located in San Diego, California designs, builds, and integrates specialty test equipment (STE) used on missions within our space and airborne segment, as a part of our Telemetry and RF Products division. For the past 60+ years, Telemetry and RF Products has been an industry-leading provider of highly reliable and secure RF communication products for Space and Airborne missions
Team members need general working knowledge of lab maintenance, cable build experience per IPC-620A standard, familiarity with commercial of the shelf test equipment. Familiarity with cable dressing and test rack sub assembly construction.
Essential Functions:
- Works under limited supervision
- Collaborate with STE Design team on the build and integration of new systems
- Complete lab maintenance logs to maintain work area requirements
- Perform maintenance functions on existing STE platforms
- Assist the production team with general STE inquiries
- Perform initial troubleshoot on failed STE systems
- Support NRTL inspections of STE systems
- Organize improvement initiatives to lab spaces
- Coordinate use of lab spaces with group lead
Qualifications:
- Requires a High School Diploma or equivalent and a minimum of 6 years of prior relevant experience or 2 years post-Secondary/Associates Degree with a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience.
- 4+ years of electonics testing experience
- Experience with various electronics (power requirements of COTS components; AC circuit loading)
- Experience with the mechanical tooling used in the construction of test racks
Preferred Additional Skills:
- IPC 620-A Certification
- Microsoft Visio Professional experience
- Ability to work with E-CAD tools
- Ability to work with Microsoft tools including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Visio.
- Lab skills that include hands-on build and debug of equipment including root-cause analysis
- Ability to work alone with little direction or as part of a team
- Ability to develop requirements, design specifications, verification documents, and other technical documents as needed
- Analog & Digital circuit test experience
- RF circuit alignment and test experience
- Ability to obtain TS/SCI clearance
In compliance with pay transparency requirements, the salary range for this role is $61,000.00-$113,000.00. This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, as final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location. L3Harris also offers a variety of benefits, including health and disability insurance, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, EAP, education assistance, parental leave, paid time off, and company-paid holidays. The specific programs and options available to an employee may vary depending on date of hire, schedule type, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.
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