Engineering Site Test Technician (onsite)

Engineering Site Technician

Collins Aerospace, an RTX company, is a leader in technologically advanced and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defense industry. Collins Aerospace has the capabilities, comprehensive portfolio, and expertise to solve customers' toughest challenges and to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving global market.

The Engineering Site Technician will be a part of a team testing ejection seats and other aerospace and defense technologies at a supersonic rocket track. This individual will support the test team with the wide variety of tasks needed for these operations. Tasks will include handling energetic materials in preparation for various types of testing.

What You Will Do

• Handling and testing rocket motors
• Handling, installing, arming and removing Cartridge Actuated Devices/Propellant Actuated Devices (CAD/PAD) from test configurations
• Deploying and maintaining test track hardware
• Performing post-test parachute condition evaluation and reporting
• Providing support for various maintenance and site improvement projects
• Support building, maintaining and upgrading test equipment and fixtures

Qualifications You Must Have

• Typically requires HS Diploma or AA/AS degree (or other 2-year post high school training) with a minimum of 4 years of relevant experience
• Basic office computer software experience / knowledge
• Strong communication and project coordination skills
• Ability to stay organized and multi-task in a fast-paced engineering environment

What We Prefer

• Experience welding and fabricating parts and fixtures
• Experience machining parts on older manual tools (mill, lathe, etc.)
• Experience with energetic materials such as CAD/PAD, rockets, and/or explosives
• Experience working in R&D, test environments, ejection seats or parachutes

What We Offer

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees
• Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option
• Tuition reimbursement program
• Student Loan Repayment Program
• Life insurance and disability coverage
• Optional coverages you can buy pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection
• Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits
• Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning
• Adoption Assistance
• Autism Benefit
• Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions
• Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program
• Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits
• Bright Horizons, child and elder care services
• Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program
• And more!

Do you want to be a part of something bigger? A team whose impact stretches across the world, and even beyond? At Collins Aerospace, our Mission Systems team helps civilian, military and government customers complete their most complex missions — whatever and wherever they may be. Our customers depend on us for intelligent and secure communications, missionized systems for specialized aircraft and spacecraft and collaborative space solutions. By joining our team, you'll have your own critical part to play in ensuring our customer succeeds today while anticipating their needs for tomorrow. Are you up for the challenge? Join our mission today.

Onsite: Employees who are working in Onsite roles will work primarily onsite. This includes all production and maintenance employees, as they are essential to the development of our products.

At Collins, the paths we pave together lead to limitless possibility. And the bonds we form – with our customers and with each other -- propel us all higher, again and again.

Apply now and be part of the team that's redefining aerospace, every day.