The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory

Project Tech

Aerospace & Defense
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Minimum Associates Degree in engineering or science program; Bachelor's preferred.
  • Requires 10 years of relevant experience with degree; 15 years without.
  • Specialized skills for production in assigned work area.
  • Experience with complex laboratory equipment and processes is essential.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a government Secret clearance.

Responsibilities

  • Document work meticulously, adhering to unit policies.
  • Independently conduct scientific experiments using advanced lab equipment.
  • Execute acceptance procedures with analytical skills, solo or with guidance.
  • Program automated and semi-automated production equipment effectively.
  • Facilitate training initiatives for skill enhancement in the department.
  • Mentor junior technicians or provide supervision when required.
  • Carry out additional tasks as assigned by the supervisor.

Benefits

  • Workplace flexibility for improved work-life balance.
  • Opportunities for involvement in employee clubs and social activities.
  • Access to health and finance workshops.
  • Discounts to local museums and cultural events.
Full Job Description
Job Description Summary:
The Project Technician performs highly skilled work under limited supervision of senior technical personnel. Perform cleaning, maintenance, and/or calibration of critical facilities and equipment requiring highly skilled and specialized knowledge. Performs work of an essentially repetitive nature requiring highly specialized skills for production of Draper's most complex deliverable hardware. Such work shall involve extremely complex manual tasks requiring high degrees of manual dexterity and attention to detail and/or the operation of complex automated or semi automated equipment requiring highly evolved production skills.

Job Description:

Duties/Responsibilities
  • With limited or no supervision, carefully documents their own work consistent with work unit policy in handwritten form or using common computer-based software.
  • Performs scientific experiments and/or tests with complex laboratory equipment independently or in collaboration with senior technical personnel.
  • Applies analytic and test experience in the execution of acceptance procedures independently or in collaboration with senior technical personnel.
  • Programs computer controlled automated and semi-automated equipment.
  • At the discretion of the supervisor, performs focused training to grow and enhance skills for betterment of the department or the Laboratory as a whole.
  • As needed, mentor, train or supervise more junior technicians.
  • Other temporary assignments at the discretion of the supervisor.


Skills/Abilities
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Applications; MS Windows, Word, Excel etc.
  • Ability to effectively communicate verbally and in writing.
  • Possess highly specialized skills for production for assigned work area.
  • Possess a high degree of attention to detail.


Education
  • Requires a minimum Associates Degree in engineering or science program, A Bachelor's Degree is strongly preferred.

In Lieu required college degree, a minimum of two years of technical schooling may be satisfied through one of the following.
  • High school diploma or its equivalents, plus two years of technical schooling related to engineering or science.
  • Completion of Military Technical School


Experience
  • When education requirement is met, requires a minimum of 10 years' relevant experience.
  • When education requirements are not met, requires a minimum of 15 years' of relevant experience.


Additional Job Description:

Applicants selected for this position will be required to obtain and maintain a government security clearance. Secret Clearance is required.

Job Location - City:
Cambridge

Job Location - State:
Massachusetts

Job Location - Postal Code:


The US base salary range for this full-time position is
$55.80 - $55.80
Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Union ranges will be in compliance with the collective bargaining agreement's approved rates by location and role. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and does not include bonuses or benefits.

Our work is very important to us, but so is our life outside of work. Draper supports many programs to improve work-life balance including workplace flexibility, employee clubs ranging from photography to yoga, health and finance workshops, off site social events and discounts to local museums and cultural activities. If this specific job opportunity and the chance to work at a nationally renowned R&D innovation company appeals to you, apply now www.draper.com/careers.

About The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory

Draper Laboratory is an American non-profit research and development organization, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts; its official name is The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. The laboratory specializes in the design, development, and deployment of advanced technology solutions to problems in national security, space exploration, health care and energy. The laboratory was founded in 1932 by Charles Stark Draper at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop aeronautical instrumentation, and came to be called the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory. During this period the laboratory is best known for developing the Apollo Guidance Computer, the first silicon integrated circuit based computer. It was renamed for its founder in 1970, and separated from MIT in 1973 to become an independent, non-profit organization. The expertise of the laboratory staff includes the areas of guidance, navigation, and control technologies and systems; fault-tolerant computing; advanced algorithms and software systems; modeling and simulation; and microelectromechanical systems and multichip module technology.
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