Voice Technician (Electronic Technician)

Aetos Systems•Merritt Island, FL

About The Position

Aetos Systems, Inc. is hiring a Voice Systems Electronic Technician to install, test, repair, fire stop, and maintain voice and related electronic systems at Kennedy Space Center. Systems include unified power systems, DC/AC converters, battery plants, amplifiers, mixers, cable racks, radio antennas and grounding, and cable harnesses. Applications may involve analog, digital, video circuits, and logic systems. The technician may work in development, engineering, test equipment, system checkout, or fabrication, supporting systems including OIS-M, OIS-Q2, PAWS, and radios. This is a represented staff position with the IBEW Union. The role performs technical functions in support of engineering activities, including equipment construction, troubleshooting, calibration, adjustment, testing, and maintenance. Work is performed using technical documentation and instructions, schematics, sketches, diagrams, layouts, and plans, and may involve interpreting and applying electronic theory and principles. The technician conducts development-mode testing, determines corrective actions for malfunctions or design problems, recommends engineering design modifications, and may assist with test equipment design, construction, testing, and checkout. The position also involves fabricating custom support equipment; installing, removing, controlling, and replacing surveillance television and webcam systems; setting up and operating video and portable sound-reinforcement equipment; upgrading sustaining-system software; and installing and maintaining handheld, fixed, and mobile RF radios. Work takes place indoors and outdoors, with outdoor work potentially involving hot or cold temperatures, high humidity, and wind. Some assignments require protective gear or precautions around machinery, chemicals, electrical hazards, rigging, heights, ladders, platforms, and confined spaces. The role may involve lifting 35–50 pounds, uneven surfaces, prolonged standing, repetitive movement, bending, stooping, twisting, awkward positions, distracting or uncomfortable noise, and inadequate lighting. Second- or third-shift work may be required.

Requirements

Associate of Science degree or technical trade school training in Electronics, Telecommunications, Computer Science, or a related field; related experience may substitute for education at a rate of 1.5 years of experience for each year of formal education.
Four years of related experience or successful completion of a State- or Military-approved bona fide work-related apprenticeship program recognized by the U.S. Department of Labor.
Understanding of electrical theory and ability to exercise independent judgment in circuit diagnostic analysis.
Ability to read and comprehensively understand electronic schematics.
U.S. citizenship and ability to pass a NASA background investigation.
Ability to pass initial and random drug testing.
Must have and maintain a valid Florida Driver’s License.
Ability to recognize or interpret differences in wire and cable colors.
Ability to receive and transmit auditory information using telecommunication or electronic devices.

Responsibilities

Perform technical functions supporting engineering activities.
Construct, troubleshoot, calibrate, adjust, test, and maintain equipment, components, devices, and systems.
Use documentation, instructions, schematics, sketches, diagrams, layouts, and plans to perform work, interpreting them as needed.
Conduct testing in a development mode and determine methods or actions to correct malfunctions or design problems.
Recommend modifications to engineering designs as necessary.
Assist with the design, construction, testing, and checkout of test equipment.
Fabricate custom support equipment from steel, aluminum, galvanized steel, wood, and plywood for installing voice and data systems.
Install, remove, control, and replace serial digital closed-circuit surveillance television and webcam systems supporting spacecraft, payload, and security operations.
Install, set up, and operate video equipment and portable sound-reinforcement equipment.
Perform software upgrades on sustaining systems.
Install and maintain handheld, fixed, and mobile RF radios.
Install, test, repair, fire stop, and maintain voice-system equipment, including unified power systems, converters, battery plants, amplifiers, mixers, cable racks, radio antennas and grounding, and cable harnesses.