Engineer Technician
FedWriters
- Camp Pendleton, CA
- $26.44-33.00 per hour
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Assembling and maintaining instrumentation
- Preparing, aligning, and calibrating instrumentation to include pressure transducers, current meters, tachometers, flow meters, accelerometers, thermocouples, inclinometers, spectrometers, telemetry systems, load cells, and data acquisition systems
- Bench testing and verifying instrumentation
- Installing instrumentation onto the test platform
- Ensuring that sensors accurately measure the intended physical phenomenon
- Ensuring that installations are robust against heat, vibration, snags, impacts, and fluids
- Observing instrumentation operation via wireless telemetry or direct physical to detect malfunctions and ensure the electronic data is complete, valid, accurate, and sufficient
- Providing real-time verbal reports to test team members
- Notifying the test team immediately if a problem is observed
- Retrieving data collected from test vehicles
- Supporting quarterly lab inventory reviews
- Testing performance of electromechanical assemblies, using test instruments such as oscilloscopes, electronic voltmeters, or bridges
- Reading blueprints, schematics, diagrams, or technical orders to determine methods and sequences of assembly
- Install electrical or electronic parts and hardware in housings or assemblies, using soldering equipment and hand tools
- Verifying part dimensions or clearances to ensure conformance to specifications, using precision measuring instruments
- Aligning, fitting, or assembling component parts, using hand or power tools, fixtures, templates, or microscopes
- Assembling or modifying electrical systems or prototypes, using hand tools or measuring instruments
- Building, calibrating, and maintaining electrical instruments or testing equipment
- Inspecting electrical project work for quality control and assurance
- Collaborating with engineers or other personnel to identify, define, or solve developmental problems
- Setting up or operating test equipment to evaluate performance
- Reviewing existing engineering criteria to identify necessary revisions, deletions, or amendments to outdated material
- Interpreting test information to resolve design-related problems
- Providing technical assistance in resolving engineering problems
- Evaluating engineering proposals, shop drawings, or design comments
- Planning method or sequence of operations for developing or testing experimental electronic or electrical equipment
- High school diploma
- No more than 5 years of experience in the field or in a related area
- Knowledge of commonly used concepts, practices, and procedures
- Bachelor's degree
- Monday - Friday, normal working hours
- Work is to be performed onsite at Camp Pendleton, CA
- Additional travel to other locations may be required