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Job Description

Electronic Test Technician 1st Shift

About GE Aerospace: 

Are you ready to see your future take flight? At GE Aerospace, we are advancing aviation technologies for today and tomorrow. Your work will contribute to the production of advanced jet engines, components, and integrated systems that power commercial and military aircraft. You’ll be part of a team that embraces your drive, your curiosity, and your unique ideas and perspectives.  Most importantly, you’ll share in our pride and purpose that affects the lives of millions around the world! 

Working at our Vandalia Facilities:

Our Vandalia facility is located 50 minutes north of the GE Aerospace headquarters and sits just north of the city of Dayton—known widely as the birthplace of aviation—where the Wright Brothers built the world’s first aircraft in their bicycle shop in the heart of downtown Dayton. This business boasts a rich history, in operation for over 100 years. At over 140,000 square feet, the Vandalia facility rests on 25 acres right off Interstate 75. 

At GE Aerospace in Vandalia, we specialize in manufacturing and servicing world-class power generation and electrical control and distribution equipment for a variety of military and commercial customers. Vandalia is also home to a product development lab where operators and engineers work together to invent the future of flight. 

Role Overview:

We offer a dynamic, fast-paced work environment for someone looking to grow and excel in their role. You’ll perform testing, measuring, and recording for acceptance of electrical power equipment in a production environment and/or perform product development and qualifications of electrical power equipment in a lab environment.

• Review, understand, and follow work instructions, procedures, specifications, and schematics. 

• Interpret technical documents and other instructions to perform test operations. 
• Set-up and operate standard electronic/electrical and mechanical test equipment including fixturing. 
• Perform basic electronic assembly operations using nuts, bolts, and screws. 

• Perform electrical measurements using DVMs, oscilloscopes, and other electrical measuring devices. 
• Use hand tools to perform assembly tasks. 
• Solder and de-solder SMT and through holes during the development stage of hardware. 
• Apply basic math calculations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of fractions, decimals, and whole numbers); conversion of numbers to and from metrics. 
• Communicate technical issues effectively to other employees in the department as well as engineers. 

• Perform tasks or operations per instruction.
• Record non-conformance in applicable system. 
• Conform to all EHS guidelines, including but not limited to, wearing proper PPE. 

The Ideal Candidate:

• Ability to read and follow detailed work instructions and interpret technical documents, including electronic schematics. 
• Experience using oscilloscopes, function generators, multimeters, AC /DC power supplies, and voltage /current probes. 

Required Qualifications:

• Associate’s degree in electronic engineering technology or electromechanical engineering OR equivalent training and relevant work experience. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• 4 years of relevant industry experience.
• Experience using oscilloscopes, function generators, multimeters, AC /DC power supplies, and voltage /current probes. 

• Ability to read and follow detailed work instructions and interpret technical documents, including electronic schematics. 
• Manual dexterity to perform assembly tasks in a safe and efficient manner. 
• Learn and take direction from leaders and subject-matter experts from across the site.  
• Work cross-functionally with technicians, assemblers, maintenance, quality engineers and manufacturing engineers from across the site. 

• Work with professionalism in an environment where customers or visitors may be present.   
• Initiative to come up with creative solutions to problems, with a focus on continuous improvement. 
• Attention to detail. 

• Ability to work in a team-based environment   
• Troubleshoot AC and DC boards, circuit and hardware to component level. 
• Assemble and modify experimental circuits, prototypes according to engineering instructions. 

Additional Information:

• Positions will require training on days for several months before going to preferred shift, but NSB will be paid during training period.
• 1st Shift pay starts at $25.53 per hour. Hours 6 am – 2:30 pm

Closing: 

At GE Aerospace, we have a relentless dedication to the future of safe and more sustainable flight and believe in our talented people to make it happen. Here, you will have the opportunity to work on really cool things with really smart and collaborative people. Together, we will mobilize a new era of growth in aerospace and defense. Where others stop, we accelerate. 

This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. Therefore, employment will be contingent upon the ability to prove that you meet the status of a U.S. Person as one of the following: U.S. lawful permanent resident, U.S. Citizen, have been granted asylee or refugee status (i.e., a protected individual under the Immigration and Naturalization Act, 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)).

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