Automation & Controls Specialist (Starship) - Night Shift

Responsibilities

• Provide innovative solutions to special requirements and challenges faced by the team, which can range from integrating specialized equipment to challenging operating environment, packaging or loading.
• Execute the integration and activation testing of new equipment.
• Manage electrical cabinet builds, field wiring, pneumatic, and fluid plumbing.
• Experience with authoring detailed manufacturing planning work orders.
• Provide hands-on troubleshooting support for a variety of active and critical ground support equipment tooling.
• Write robust and scalable procedures to activate technicians to quickly and reliably build and commission control systems.
• Lay out new industrial electrical control panels that are NFPA79/NEC/UL508A compliant and create electrical, pneumatic, and fluid schematics.
• Participate in the design and development of new and existing control systems critical to the launch organization.
• Architect, write, and debug PLC code, emphasizing generating organized, structured, documented, maintainable, and reusable code for manufacturing applications.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalency certificate.
• 3+ years of experience in a controls technician, controls specialist, or engineering role.

Preferred Skills And Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering or technology field.
• Occupational trade school qualification in an instrumentation or electrical-based field.
• Knowledge of NFPA 70 (National Electrical Code), NFPA 70E (Standard for Electrical Safety), NFPA 79 & UL508A codes.
• Excellent communication skills—both written and verbal.
• Ability to thrive in ambiguity, independently drive project progress, and manage multiple priorities.
• Proven ability to author detailed manufacturing planning work orders in strict compliance with guidelines and procedures.
• Fundamental understanding of engineering principles behind electronic equipment, instrumentation, and commonly used industrial equipment.
• Experience designing and installing instrumentation and control systems in hazardous areas (NFPA 70 Section 500 installations); Class 1, Division 1 and Division 2 environments or IEC equivalence.
• Electrical schematic CAD experience using EPlan.
• PLC programming experience, preferably Siemens TIA Portal.
• Experience with industrial bus protocols such as Modbus, Profinet and EtherNet/IP.
• Exposure to C/C++, Python, and JavaScript.
• Process integration and electromechanical/mechatronic systems experience.
• Able to collaborate with a wide range of people and effectively work in a team in a high-pressure, dynamic environment.

Additional Requirements

• Must be willing to work weekends and night shifts as needed.
• 2nd shift: 6pm-6am, 4 days a week.
• Must be willing to travel to other launch sites in support of operational activities and launches; travel requirement is up to 15%.
• Ability to pass Air Force background check for Cape Canaveral.
• Lifting, standing, climbing, bending, grasping, sitting, pulling, pushing, stooping, stretching, and carrying are generally required to perform the functions of this position.