Senior Assembly Technician (2nd Shift)

About the Company

When you join Cubic, you become part of a company that creates and delivers technology solutions in transportation to make people’s lives easier by simplifying their daily journeys, and defense capabilities to help promote mission success and safety for those who serve their nation. Led by our talented teams around the world, Cubic is committed to solving global issues through innovation and service to our customers and partners. We have a top-tier portfolio of businesses, including Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS) and Cubic Defense (CD).

About the Role

Cubic | Nuvotronics’ Design for Manufacturing (DFM) Team is a multidisciplinary team of engineers, designers, and technicians who translate designs from our electrical engineering design team into buildable products. As a Senior Engineering Technician within this team, you will support multiple complex prototype and low-rate-of-production builds while ensuring a successful handoff to the production team. This role requires the ability to pivot quickly between different products with varying workflows, exercise judgment on builds, and make recommendations to the engineering staff. The position typically works under general supervision and involves substantial decision-making authority within product teams and the assembly area.

Responsibilities

• Assembles electronic components requiring complex wiring, soldering, and connecting, often under microscopes.
• Reads and interprets complex notes, schematics, parts lists, and wiring diagrams.
• Specifies, acquires, sets up, operates, and maintains equipment required to build, repair, and troubleshoot electronic subassemblies and assemblies.
• Contacts personnel in related activities to resolve problems and coordinate assigned work.
• Adheres to internal and external process standards and quality systems.
• Diagnoses, locates, troubleshoots, and corrects malfunctions and failures requiring high levels of skill for resolution.
• Works with customers, program managers, and engineering staff to develop, field, and demonstrate systems; recommends modifications to specifications and provides design feedback by compiling, interpreting, and presenting data obtained during manufacturing.
• Develops information concerning previous failures and modifications; identifies inconsistencies or gaps in data and seeks sources to clarify information, including devising experiments to determine solutions.
• Communicates progress utilizing advanced-level computer skills, including Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, as well as technical software packages related to equipment operation.
• Assists, trains, and leads other co-workers in assembly skills and equipment use as required.
• Serves, in a limited role, as a customer contact on technical and service-related aspects.
• Assumes additional responsibilities as needed; may serve as team lead, organizing work direction and schedules, and taking on leadership responsibilities to solve problems or develop improved processes.

Requirements

• Two-year college degree, military technical training, or equivalent, plus a minimum of six years of direct electronic experience in digital and analog circuitry or radio frequency components, preferably at a Senior Technician level.
• Intermediate-level computer skills and knowledge of MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint; familiarity with software packages required to support hardware builds.
• Ability to read and write technical materials and perform moderately complex technical phases of work.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to provide feedback to engineering staff.
• Proficiency in using hand tools and assembly equipment.
• Willingness to work weekends and holidays to support customer needs.
• Ability to obtain a DOD Security Clearance.

Pay

Cubic pay range for this job level is $30.29 - $35.10 per hour, plus benefits. The range is a general guideline and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.