Engineering Technician

PGS Worldwide is seeking a Secret-Cleared Engineering Technician in El Segundo, California for a one-year onsite contract-to-hire role supporting a leading aerospace & defense company. This position will support the assembly, integration, checkout, and testing of prototype weapon systems incorporating electro-mechanical hardware, power electronics, processors, sensors, and rocket-powered components.

Required Skills

• Active DoD Secret clearance required to start.
• Experience assembling and integrating military and/or aerospace weapon systems.
• Experience fabricating and checking out electrical cables and wire harnesses.
• Experience using basic laboratory test equipment such as oscilloscopes, multimeters, and power supplies.
• Ability to read and execute engineering drawings, electrical schematics, build plans, work orders, and test procedures.
• Experience supporting electro-mechanical assembly, integration, checkout, and test activities.
• Ability to accurately collect and maintain build and test documentation.
• Ability to follow Electrostatic Discharge (ESD), high-voltage, and cleanroom safety procedures.
• Ability to work with Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) and classified information in accordance with applicable requirements.
• Willingness to travel up to 20%.
• U.S. citizenship required.

Preferred Skills

• Experience assembling, integrating, and testing weapon systems involving precision servo-driven mechanisms, missiles, or gun-launched systems.
• Experience handling energetic materials, including 1.1A hazard-class materials.
• Basic machining experience using mills and/or lathes.
• Active Top Secret clearance.

What You’ll Do

• Assemble, integrate, check out, and test prototype weapon-system hardware.
• Support systems incorporating electro-mechanical components, power electronics, processors, sensors, and related hardware.
• Build and test electrical cables and harnesses.
• Execute work from engineering drawings, electrical schematics, work orders, build instructions, and test procedures.
• Operate oscilloscopes, multimeters, power supplies, and other laboratory test equipment.
• Collect and maintain build data, photographs, handwritten records, and other technical documentation.
• Support development of end-item data packages.
• Work with ESD-sensitive hardware, high-voltage electronics, and cleanroom processes.
• Follow applicable safety, security, and classified-information handling requirements.
• Support onsite system demonstrations at government facilities.
• Participate in assembly, checkout, and live-fire test activities as required.
• Travel to government or test facilities as needed.

Work Schedule / Shift

• 9/80 work schedule.
• Full-time onsite in El Segundo, California.
• Up to 20% travel required.

Pay

• $38.67 per hour.

Job ID: 1943

Military veterans and transitioning military members are encouraged to apply to all PGS Worldwide positions. All of our jobs are military-friendly, and we work with leaders in Aerospace who rely on your military expertise to support mission-critical programs nationwide. As a Veteran Founded company, we know that the military has given you the skills and training you need to succeed in positions like this, and we want to support your success in the civilian sector however we can. We thank you for your service and humbly offer our own in return by helping you take your career to the next level.