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About Firefly Aerospace
Firefly Aerospace is a space and defense technology company on a mission to reliably and repeatedly launch, land, and operate space systems from Earth to the Moon and beyond. Headquartered in north Austin, Texas, Firefly was the first commercial company to launch a satellite to orbit with 24-hour notice and the first company to achieve a successful Moon landing.
The Role
As an Electrical Technician II you will work with engineers and technicians at Firefly's test site in Briggs, TX (north of Cedar Park) to test and develop our industry-disruptive launch vehicles. You will handle instrumentation, electrical work, and data systems with minimal supervision.
What You Will Do
- Make cable harness assemblies for test operations and various testing projects
- Perform instrumentation checkouts for test operations
- Troubleshoot instrumentation and control system problems
- Calibrate and troubleshoot valve feedback signals
- Terminate Military Specification connectors
- Build Junction Boxes with instrumentation and control terminations
- Assemble and install electrical and electronic assembly units, sub units, boards, wire harnesses and cables for propulsion products
- Install connectors, connector pins, terminals and lugs
- Perform continuity checks and locate wiring errors using ohmmeters and continuity checkers
- Connect, verify and specify pressure transducers, thermocouples and other sensors
- Set up power supplies for sensor excitation voltages
- Read and interpret schematics, wiring diagrams, specifications, drawings and engineering sketches
- Perform layout and wiring of instrumentation I/O breakout panels
- Commission instrumentation and control systems
- Perform basic VFD and PLC diagnostics
- Collaborate with test engineers to troubleshoot failures from test data
Required Qualifications
- 3-5 years of electrical technician experience
- Training and/or experience in oscilloscope and multimeter operation, soldering wires and connectors, crimping tools, wire stripping, ohm's law, continuity testing, military type connector pinning, cable routing and tie wrapping, drilling and tapping holes, and building junction boxes
- Software and computer skills: Windows Operating Systems, Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Outlook)
- Expertise with instrumentation such as Resistance Temperature Devices (RTDs), strain gages, load cells, displacement transducers, pressure transducers
- Experience with National Instruments DAQ systems
- Experience configuring CAN Bus digital sensors, valve controllers, thermocouple scanners, DC power supplies, DC-DC convertors, UPS installations, heat shrink tubing, cable harnessing, lacing, and strain relief concepts
Desired Qualifications
- Knowledge of signal conditioning for various sensor types including thermocouple Types K and E, TC bonding (resistance weld and adhesive bond), TC probes through thermowell sheaths, and cold junction compensation concepts
Requirements
To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.