Job Title: Engineer Technician

Job Summary:

Join our dynamic team as an Engineer Technician, where you will be at the forefront of assembling and maintaining instrumentation vital for testing and optimizing vehicle performance for the Amphibious Vehicle Test Branch (AVTB). Working for the Marine Corps Amphibious Vehicle Test Branch AVTB provides the opportunity to directly contribute to the development and testing of amphibious vehicles critical for Marine Corps operations, ensuring their effectiveness and reliability in challenging environments.

Responsibilities Include:

• Assembling and maintaining instrumentation

• Preparing, aligning, and calibrating instrumentation to include pressure transducers, current meters, tachometers, flow meters, accelerometers, thermocouples, inclinometers, spectrometers, telemetry systems, load cells, and data acquisition systems

• Bench testing and verifying instrumentation

• Installing instrumentation onto the test platform

• Ensuring that sensors accurately measure the intended physical phenomenon

• Ensuring that installations are robust against heat, vibration, snags, impacts, and fluids

• Observing instrumentation operation via wireless telemetry or direct physical to detect malfunctions and ensure the electronic data is complete, valid, accurate, and sufficient

• Providing real-time verbal reports to test team members

• Notifying the test team immediately if a problem is observed

• Retrieving data collected from test vehicles

• Supporting quarterly lab inventory reviews

• Testing performance of electromechanical assemblies, using test instruments such as oscilloscopes, electronic voltmeters, or bridges

• Reading blueprints, schematics, diagrams, or technical orders to determine methods and sequences of assembly

• Install electrical or electronic parts and hardware in housings or assemblies, using soldering equipment and hand tools

• Verifying part dimensions or clearances to ensure conformance to specifications, using precision measuring instruments

• Aligning, fitting, or assembling component parts, using hand or power tools, fixtures, templates, or microscopes

• Assembling or modifying electrical systems or prototypes, using hand tools or measuring instruments

• Building, calibrating, and maintaining electrical instruments or testing equipment

• Inspecting electrical project work for quality control and assurance

• Collaborating with engineers or other personnel to identify, define, or solve developmental problems

• Setting up or operating test equipment to evaluate performance

• Reviewing existing engineering criteria to identify necessary revisions, deletions, or amendments to outdated material

• Interpreting test information to resolve design-related problems

• Providing technical assistance in resolving engineering problems

• Evaluating engineering proposals, shop drawings, or design comments

• Planning method or sequence of operations for developing or testing experimental electronic or electrical equipment

  Required Qualifications and Skills:

• High school diploma

• No more than 5 years of experience in the field or in a related area

• Knowledge of commonly used concepts, practices, and procedures

  Desired:

• Bachelor's degree

  Work Setting and Environment:

• Monday - Friday, normal working hours

• Work is to be performed onsite at Camp Pendleton, CA

• Additional travel to other locations may be required

  How FedWriters Will Compensate and Appreciate You:

  FedWriters offers team members the opportunity to gain a lasting impression in this fast-growing small business.

  FedWriters provides a competitive package of salary and benefits, including medical, dental, and vision coverage; a matching 401(k) program; generous Paid Time Off (PTO); STD; LTD; life insurance; and more!

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