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Manufacturing & Harnessing Technician 2/3
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation · 🇺🇸 United States-California-Oxnard
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About the role
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: No CLEARANCE TYPE: None TRAVEL: No Description At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history. An organization within Northrop Grumman’s Intelligence Systems (PGS) division, Mission Enabling Products is a leading designer, producer, and supplier of spacecraft components that power and enable satellites of all classes. Products include spacecraft panels, bus structures, precision optical structures, deployable structural systems and mechanisms, solar arrays, and antenna reflectors. Our products are on virtually every U.S. satellite built in the last 20 years. Learn more about Mission Enabling Products at our website: https://www.northropgrumman.com/space/spacecraft-components/ . Our facility in Oxnard, CA is seeking a Manufacturing Harnessing Technician specializing in harnessing and related electrical assembly and test, with aerospace industry experience working on small, medium and/or large government and commercial programs. Primary Responsibilities : • Will be reviewing, interpreting, maintaining, and completing paperwork and electronic data associated with hardware assemblies to maintain data and material traceability. • Will be working with electrical harness assemblies, including interpreting schematics and building compliant electrical assemblies as well as conducting electrical tests such as continuity and insulation resistance. • Will be routing wiring harnesses on flight hardware. • Will follow procedure and direction from management as well as work from drawings or sketches, and collaborate with engineers to develop or proof new processes. • Will work with soldering, wire stripping, contact crimping, contact insertion and removal, harness routing and strain relief. • Will work with structural bonding and application of coatings using various epoxy and silicone adhesive products. • Working level understanding of force, torque, and precision hand tools. • Work to follow and determine, optimum order of assembly for complex harnesses, mechanical structures, and devices. Basic Qualifications for level 2: • High school diploma or GED and at least 2 years of additional education and/or related experience • US Citizen able to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret security clearance • Ability to read, write and work to instructions written in English. • Ability read and follow directions on engineering drawings and Schematics • Ability to lift/push/pull up to 40 pounds • Ability to be on feet for up to various hours each day • Ability to work flexible hours, overtime, and different shifts based on demanding manufacturing schedules Basic Qualifications for level 3: • High school diploma or GED and at least 4 years of wire harness assembly and soldering experience • Ability to read, write and work to instructions written in English. • Ability read and follow directions on engineering drawings and Schematics • Ability to lift/push/pull up to 40 pounds • Abili