Maintenance Operations Engineering Technician
$66,560–$87,360 year
On-siteEsparto, California, United States
Job Summary
Maintain prototype aircraft, ground infrastructure, and test equipment to keep approved test campaigns executable. Replace vehicle components, perform checkouts, and maintain complete maintenance documentation and configuration records. Execute semi-automated vehicle checkouts, reliability campaigns, and endurance tests using documented procedures. Prepare test articles, equipment, instrumentation, and data-acquisition systems so test specifications can be executed as written. Verify completed maintenance and test setups meet documented configuration, safety-check, instrumentation, and data-capture requirements before test execution. Independently isolate and document first-order test-system or test-article faults; surface deviations and escalate root-cause resolution to engineers. Produce test reports that connect observations and data to reliability improvements, design iterations, and vehicle-readiness decisions. Travel approximately 20% of the time to support testing operations across the United States. Work rotating shifts including nights and weekends at the Esparto, California site.
Required Qualifications
- Experience operating common machine-shop equipment and building mechanical assemblies, fixtures, jigs, or test hardware.
- Hands-on experience with electrical and electronic assemblies across different power levels and component sizes.
- Experience setting up, instrumenting, executing, and documenting hardware or hardware/software tests alongside engineers.
- Ability to independently troubleshoot test issues to a first-order diagnosis and communicate clear evidence for engineering follow-up.
- Ability to interpret electrical specifications, mechanical drawings, test procedures, diagrams, and incomplete work instructions.
- Discipline in organizing test data, maintaining configuration records, and communicating findings clearly in writing and verbally.
- Ability to work rotating shifts, including nights and weekends, on site in Esparto, California.
- Ability to travel approximately 20% of the time, including trips of up to two weeks, to support testing operations across the United States.
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