Test Engineering Technician
About The Position
Crane Aerospace and Electronics has an exciting opportunity for an Test Engineering Technician at our Elyria, OH location. About Crane: Crane Aerospace & Electronics supplies critical systems and components to the aerospace and defense markets. You’ll find Crane Aerospace & Electronics in some of the toughest environments: from engines to landing gear; from satellites to medical implants and from missiles to unmanned aerial systems (UAS). Our Crane Aerospace & Electronics Elyria facility has been a bedrock in the community-friendly town of Elyria, Ohio, for more than a century. Known for our excellence in pumping technology, our Elyria site produced the first-ever positive displacement pump for high performance piston engine aircraft and even supplied pumps for Charles Lindbergh in the 1930s. We have more than 150,000 fuel and lubrication pumps in service today and are proud to offer custom thermal management system solutions for a range of next-gen applications. Start the next chapter of your career with Crane Aerospace & Electronics!
Requirements
- 7 years’ experience in a similar or related testing environment.
- Knowledge in electronics (instrumentation), computer, data acquisition systems, and hydraulics.
- Welding, brazing, pipe/tubing bending.
- Proficiency with PC computers
- Ability to modify computer data acquisition and control programs.
- Associate Degree or equivalent experience in an electrical/electronic or mechanical curriculum
- This position may require access to Controlled Data or Information. Where the position requires such access only US Persons will be considered. As a US Department of Defense contractor, we are bound by International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR).
Responsibilities
- Conduct aerospace fluid handing component experimental tests per direction
- Construct test set-ups according to test procedures, schematics, written and verbal instruction provided by Test or project Engineers
- Align pump test fixtures, drives, etc., plumbing and instrumenting of the test set-ups.
- Troubleshoot set-ups, instrumentation (Analog, Digital) and repair
- Maintain a clean, safe, well-organized lab area requires sweeping, mopping and movement of equipment such as tanks and instrumentation
- Wire a data acquisition system
- Make hose and tubing assemblies for set-ups
- Calibrate flow meters, pressure gauges, thermocouples, electrical meters, frequency counters, temperature readouts and other instrumentation
- Fabricate test set-up components requiring the making of orifice assemblies, shims, drilling and taping holes, brazing, etc.
- Test Stand maintenance requiring electrical wiring of pressure switches and instrumentation panels
- Set-up control panels, explosion proof boxes and instrumentation systems, temporary in nature
- Maintenance of test lab instrumentation
- Movement of equipment between lab cells
- Procurement of lab supplies per assigned responsibilities
- Fill out appropriate lab paperwork
- Any other task assigned by your supervisor or management
- Provides technical support of bid packages when
- Mentor and train junior technicians, as needed
Benefits
- Health care
- dental
- vision
- life and disability insurance starting the first day of the month
- 15 days of paid time off that start accruing your first day at Crane
- 12 paid holidays per year
- 401k plan with company match
- Education Reimbursement: eligible after 6 months of employment
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
