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Avionics/Electronics Technician (Solder 1st shift) SpaceX
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Avionics/Electronics Technician (Solder 1st shift)
Technicians and Trade Skills | Hawthorne, CA, United States
The Company
SpaceX is a US based space technology company founded by its residing CEO and CTO, Elon Musk, the former co-founder of PayPal. The company's goal is to renew a sense of excellence in the space industry by disrupting the current paradigm of complacency and replacing it with innovation and commercialized price points; laying the foundation for a truly space-faring human civilization.
SpaceX builds rockets and spacecraft from the ground up; including electronics, software, vehicle structures, and engines. In-house development includes nearly all flight critical custom components amounting to approximately 85% of our vehicles both by mass and by value. Our development and production efforts represent some of the most dynamic and challenging technology problems seen in any organization.
Our success is driven by a wide variety of engineering perspectives and openness to all great ideas. We pride ourselves on being a meritocracy where employees are defined by their capabilities and contributions, instead of title or tenure. We are actively seeking the best and brightest minds from all industries to continue to build our world class team.
Our employees thrive in a fast-paced engineering ecosystem focused on innovation and high levels of personal responsibility. At SpaceX we cut through the noise and believe in the essentials of hardcore engineering.
We build it, test it, and fly it.
The Department
Technicians and Trade Skills â€" SpaceX is continuing to build our highly skilled technician and trades workforce; the extensive in house development and production capabilities at SpaceX would not be possible without their contributions. If you enjoy hands-on development work in and thrive in a fast paced environment, you could make a great addition to our team.
The Job
Responsibilities
- Perform manufacturing/production activities according to space standards in the areas of: mechanical assembly, soldering, conformal coating, epoxy application, crimping and wire harness assembly
- Troubleshoot and report any variations from the established plan to the Manager or Lead Technician in a timely manner
- Communicate between quality and production groups
- Support production assemblies, non-flight hardware and/or R&D programs
- Minimum 5 years work related experience in the Aerospace PCBA industry
- Minimum 3 years soldering experience in surface mount technology (SMT) printed circuit boards(PCB) including the use of soldering iron and heat gun
- Minimum 3 years building cables and harnesses experience
- Experience reading schematics and blueprints
- Read, understand and work effectively with mechanical drawings and documentation including Bills of Material, assembly drawings travelers
- Excellent organizational skills
- Self-motivated
- Excellent communication skills
- Basic knowledge of ERP traveler data input
- Familiar with NASA Standards for Soldering, Cable, or able to certify and maintain certification in 1 or more NASA standards
- Rework/Touch capabilities to component size of 0402
- Ability to solder both surface mount and through-hole components
- Experience in both tin lead and lead free soldering
- Ability to work using a microscope
- Ability to solder fine pitch components
- Ability to build cables and harnesses
- Must be able to work 1st shift on a daily basis, 6am â€" 2:30pm
- Must be willing to work overtime and weekends as needed
- Strong team working skills and excellent attention to detail
- Must be able to lift and carry up to 40lbs
- Standing for long periods of time, climbing up and down ladders, bending, grasping, sitting, pulling, pushing, stooping, and stretching may be required to perform the functions of this position.
- Expertise in PCB rework and soldering, to include use of Solder Pot and mini wave solder stations
SpaceX offers one of the best environments in the world for employees to learn, build real working systems and tackle exciting challenges every day. We operate in a fun, casual work environment and have great benefits including: competitive salary, stock options, medical/dental insurance and free gym memberships. By joining the SpaceX team, you are not just a part of history, you are making it.
SpaceX is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with SpaceX is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, applicant 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 the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
Those applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application/interview process should notify the Human Resource Department at (310) 363-6000.
| Location: | multiple, multiple United States |
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THIS JOB HAS EXPIRED
SpaceX
Investors: Founders FundAll Jobs: at SpaceX
| Web Site: | www.spacex.com |
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| Headquarters: | 12301 Crenshaw Boulevard Hawthorne, CA 90250 United States |
| Industry: | Industrial |
