Automation & Controls Specialist (Starship)

• ◆Provide innovative solutions to special

and challenges faced by the team, which can range from integrating specialized equipment to challenging operating environment, packaging or loading.

• ✓Execute the integration and activation testing of new equipment.
• ✓Manage electrical cabinet builds, field wiring, pneumatic, and fluid plumbing.
• ✓Experience with authoring detailed manufacturing planning work orders.
• ✓Provide hands-on troubleshooting support for a variety of active and critical ground support equipment tooling.
• ✓Write robust and scalable procedures to activate technicians to quickly and reliably build and commission control systems.
• ✓Lay out new industrial electrical control panels that are NFPA79/NEC/UL508A compliant and create electrical, pneumatic, and fluid schematics.
• ✓Participate in the design and development of new and existing control systems critical to the launch organization.
• ✓Architect, write, and debug PLC code, emphasizing generating organized, structured, documented, maintainable, and reusable code for manufacturing applications.

• ✓High school diploma or equivalency certificate.
• ✓3+ years of experience in a controls technician, controls specialist, or engineering role.

• ✓Bachelor’s degree in an engineering or technology field.
• ✓Occupational trade school qualification in an instrumentation or electrical-based field
• ✓Knowledge of NFPA 70 (National Electrical Code), NFPA 70E (Standard for Electrical Safety), NFPA 79 & UL508A codes.
• ✓Excellent communication skills—both written and verbal.
• ✓Ability to thrive in ambiguity, independently drive project progress, and manage multiple priorities.
• ✓Proven ability to author detailed manufacturing planning work orders in strict compliance with guidelines and procedures.
• ✓Fundamental understanding of engineering principles behind electronic equipment, instrumentation, and commonly used industrial equipment.
• ✓Experience designing and installing instrumentation and control systems in hazardous areas (NFPA 70 Section 500 installations); Class 1, Division 1 and Division 2 environments or IEC equivalence.
• ✓Electrical schematic CAD experience using EPlan.
• ✓PLC programming experience, preferably Siemens TIA Portal.
• ✓First-hand experience with programming and software development.
• ✓Experience with industrial bus protocols such as Modbus, Profinet and EtherNet/IP.
• ✓Exposure to C/C++, Python, and JavaScript.
• ✓Process integration and electromechanical/mechatronic systems experience.
• ✓Able to collaborate with a wide range of people and effectively work in a team in a high-pressure, dynamic environment.

• ✓Must be willing to work weekends and night shifts as needed.
• ✓Must be willing to travel to other launch sites in support of operational activities and launches; travel requirement is up to 15%.
• ✓Ability to pass Air Force background check for Cape Canaveral.
• ✓Lifting, standing, climbing, bending, grasping, sitting, pulling, pushing, stooping, stretching, and carrying are generally required to perform the functions of this position.

ITAR

• ✓To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here .

and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

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