(Casual Hire) Lab Technician/Project Manager

University of Hawaii•Honolulu, HI

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Applicants seeking short-term or part-time work with the University of Hawai’i may apply for Casual Hire positions, which include administrative professional and technical (APT) or Instructional-type positions. Because of the temporary nature of these appointments, Casual Hire employees are not eligible for most benefits as provided to regular BOR and Civil Service employees such as paid leave and holidays. Casual Hire appointments may last for up to 89 days for full-time employees and up to one calendar year for part-time employees.

Requirements

Knowledge and experience in STEM-related projects
Good communication skills
Experience on working in a high school environment and providing mentorship and guidance to students
Knowledge about NASA aeronautics projects and opportunities for students
Basic knowledge of UAV assembly and test flights
Matlab, Adobe and MS Office programs/software
Experience on data collection and analysis
Word processing

Nice To Haves

Experience in informal teaching at high schools
Knowledge about NASA’s aeronautics-related, projects
Abilities to work with high school and university students
Abilities to set up, coordinate and manage UAV project activities, including UAV assembly and test flights
Experience on data collection, analysis, and its reporting
Knowledge and experience in UAV assembly, its hardware and test flights
Some knowledge in the areas of mechanics
Experience with Matlab, C++ and/or other programming languages/platforms

Responsibilities

Provide mentorship, instructions and guidance to students on assembly and test flights of UAVs.
Determine the UAV hardware issues in the UAV Lab and lead efforts to fix these issues.
Maintain the UAV Lab inventory up to date, cleanliness of the Lab and keep it ready and professional to host the project activities.
Create log files of the work performed in the Lab and test fields along with work hours to support the timesheets.
Report monthly updates to the PI, work with the project team and attend project meetings.