Cleared Senior/Principal Engineering Support Technologist - Product Realization, Onsite

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Engineering Support Technologist to join the dynamic product realization teams of group 7520. Our group possesses a diverse set of skills and backgrounds to enable rapid production missions in close collaboration with our customers and partners.

Responsibilities

• Build and test complex electronics hardware to ensure functionality and compliance with specifications.
• Work as part of a team to execute high-rigor production operations for electronic assemblies.
• Collaborate closely with Product and Process Engineers to ensure a technical understanding of the processes and expected results, recognizing product requirement deviations, troubleshooting, and determining effective solutions.
• Recommend corrective or preventive actions to assure or improve product quality and may be responsible for their implementation.
• Maintain written work instructions, operating procedures, and other technical documents to control product definition during the manufacturing process.
• Support the assembly and testing of development hardware.
• Partner with other technicians and engineers on the team to deliver complex products to the highest quality, safety, and security standards.

Requirements

• High school diploma plus 5 years of directly related experience in building and testing electronics hardware, or an equivalent combination of relevant education and/or experience.
• Active DOE Q-level security clearance or equivalent.

Qualifications

• Experience with production operations and/or electro-mechanical assembly and testing.
• Proven experience with soldering, assembling, and testing complex electronic assemblies.
• IPC-A-610 and IPC J-STD-001 certification.
• Strong communication and teamwork skills.
• Proven ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team that executes a variety of product realization missions.
• Experience creating detailed work instructions and operating procedures and understanding product definition.
• Experience reviewing quality data and paperwork to support product acceptance activities.
• Experience providing technical support to manufacturing or development operations.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct problem-solving activities/events and recommend corrective actions.
• Demonstrated experience implementing Lean Six Sigma principles.

Benefits

Onsite work is required. Salary range is estimated, and actual salary will be determined after consideration of the selected candidate's experience and qualifications, and application of any approved geographic salary differential.

What Your Job Will Be Like: We are seeking an experienced Engineering Support Technologist to join the dynamic product realization teams of group 7520. Our group possesses a diverse set of skills and backgrounds to enable rapid production missions in close collaboration with our customers and partners. You will be responsible for building and testing electronics hardware, as well as executing a variety of technical tasks related to new process development, work instructions, maintenance/calibration coordination, component and system assembly, and facilities coordination. On any given day, you may be called upon to:

• Build and test complex electronics hardware to ensure functionality and compliance with specifications.
• Work as part of a team to execute high-rigor production operations for electronic assemblies.
• Collaborate closely with Product and Process Engineers to ensure a technical understanding of the processes and expected results, recognizing product requirement deviations, troubleshooting, and determining effective solutions.
• Recommend corrective or preventive actions to assure or improve product quality and may be responsible for their implementation.
• Maintain written work instructions, operating procedures, and other technical documents to control product definition during the manufacturing process.
• Support the assembly and testing of development hardware.
• Partner with other technicians and engineers on the team to deliver complex products to the highest quality, safety, and security standards.

Applicants on this requisition may be interviewed by multiple organizations at Sandia National Laboratories Due to the nature of work, successful candidate must be able to work onsite.