Missile technician job description
Updated March 14, 2024
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Missile technician requirements can be divided into technical requirements and required soft skills. The lists below show the most common requirements included in missile technician job postings.
Sample missile technician requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field.
- Minimum of 5 years experience in missile systems.
- Proficiency in missile system maintenance and operations.
- Familiarity with missile guidance, control, and instrumentation systems.
- Ability to interpret technical drawings and manuals.
Sample required missile technician soft skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Ability to work under pressure and handle multiple tasks.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
Missile technician job description example 1
ASRC Federal missile technician job description
ASRC Federal System Solutions seeks a **Spacecraft/Missile Technician, Senior** for critical defense project work to train at Kennedy Space Center and travel to Cortland, Alabama for approximately 6-9 months with travel back and forth to Kennedy Space Center throughout project.
ASRC Federal System Solutions brings a 14-year history of delivering high-performance space systems engineering, integration and satellite operations services to civil and defense agencies.
ASRC Federal System Solutions provides these services throughout all phases of the program life cycle and across the entire space systems architecture, including space and ground assets.
**Job Summary:**
Technicians operate and maintain systems and equipment used in the developing, fabricating, testing, producing, assembling, and sustaining spacecraft/missile systems used to transport astronauts to interplanetary destinations beyond low Earth orbit such as the Moon and Mars. Technicians in this occupational family may have a wide breadth of knowledge in various Facility and Ground Support Equipment (GSE) & spacecraft systems and/or a specific depth of knowledge in a craft, system, or subsystem. Excludes quality assurance inspectors and material handlers.
**Roles and Responsibilities:**
+ Performs a range of duties in the mechanical, electromechanical, and Facilities GSE when constructing and assembling spacecraft and associated ground support equipment.
+ Reads, interprets, and works from blueprints, schematics, engineering documents, work authorization documents and other written or verbal instructions.
+ Constructs, assembles, troubleshoots, calibrates, adjusts, tests, diagnoses, repairs and maintain equipment, components and subcomponents, devices, and systems in accordance with testing, engineering, and installation instructions.
+ Operates related equipment; conducts tests and reports data in prescribed format.
+ Performs alignment checks; adjusts, modifications, and replacements as directed; prepares prescribed compounds and solutions. Uses various measuring devices to include, Micrometers, Calipers, and laser measuring devices.
+ Carry out corrosion control treatments on metal and other corrosive alloys.
+ Setup, adjust, operate, and maintain tube bending machinery and equipment. Select layouts, templates, fit checks, tools, dies and gauge requirements.
+ Make shop computations and understanding working properties of metals, alloys, and composite materials. Install and align cutters, dies, drills, guides and holding devices. Constructing ground support equipment from metal, alloys, and other composite materials.
+ Perform Preventative maintenance (PM) on various GSE specifically to include Cranes and heavy equipment PM's, Maintenance, repairs, and operation of
+ Perform Rigging inspections and rigging in support of lifts within a manufacturing area.
+ Complete, update and maintain all required documentation, reports, etc., manually or in digital databases.
+ Make recommendations to improve work quality, efficiencies, and productivity.
**Requirements:**
+ High school diploma, or equivalent experience/combined education, with additional specialized technical training equivalent to a technical Associate degree and/or demonstrated ability to perform assigned technical/para-engineering tasks and 3 years or more of experience.
+ Must be a U.S. citizen
+ Ability to obtain interim secret clearance
**Desired Skills:**
+ Ordnance handling
+ Missile build experience is a plus
+ Aviation/Aerospace experience
ASRC Federal and its Subsidiaries are Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, gender, color, age, sexual orientation, gender identification, national origin, religion, marital status, ancestry, citizenship, disability, protected veteran status, or any other factor prohibited by applicable law.
ASRC Federal System Solutions brings a 14-year history of delivering high-performance space systems engineering, integration and satellite operations services to civil and defense agencies.
ASRC Federal System Solutions provides these services throughout all phases of the program life cycle and across the entire space systems architecture, including space and ground assets.
**Job Summary:**
Technicians operate and maintain systems and equipment used in the developing, fabricating, testing, producing, assembling, and sustaining spacecraft/missile systems used to transport astronauts to interplanetary destinations beyond low Earth orbit such as the Moon and Mars. Technicians in this occupational family may have a wide breadth of knowledge in various Facility and Ground Support Equipment (GSE) & spacecraft systems and/or a specific depth of knowledge in a craft, system, or subsystem. Excludes quality assurance inspectors and material handlers.
**Roles and Responsibilities:**
+ Performs a range of duties in the mechanical, electromechanical, and Facilities GSE when constructing and assembling spacecraft and associated ground support equipment.
+ Reads, interprets, and works from blueprints, schematics, engineering documents, work authorization documents and other written or verbal instructions.
+ Constructs, assembles, troubleshoots, calibrates, adjusts, tests, diagnoses, repairs and maintain equipment, components and subcomponents, devices, and systems in accordance with testing, engineering, and installation instructions.
+ Operates related equipment; conducts tests and reports data in prescribed format.
+ Performs alignment checks; adjusts, modifications, and replacements as directed; prepares prescribed compounds and solutions. Uses various measuring devices to include, Micrometers, Calipers, and laser measuring devices.
+ Carry out corrosion control treatments on metal and other corrosive alloys.
+ Setup, adjust, operate, and maintain tube bending machinery and equipment. Select layouts, templates, fit checks, tools, dies and gauge requirements.
+ Make shop computations and understanding working properties of metals, alloys, and composite materials. Install and align cutters, dies, drills, guides and holding devices. Constructing ground support equipment from metal, alloys, and other composite materials.
+ Perform Preventative maintenance (PM) on various GSE specifically to include Cranes and heavy equipment PM's, Maintenance, repairs, and operation of
+ Perform Rigging inspections and rigging in support of lifts within a manufacturing area.
+ Complete, update and maintain all required documentation, reports, etc., manually or in digital databases.
+ Make recommendations to improve work quality, efficiencies, and productivity.
**Requirements:**
+ High school diploma, or equivalent experience/combined education, with additional specialized technical training equivalent to a technical Associate degree and/or demonstrated ability to perform assigned technical/para-engineering tasks and 3 years or more of experience.
+ Must be a U.S. citizen
+ Ability to obtain interim secret clearance
**Desired Skills:**
+ Ordnance handling
+ Missile build experience is a plus
+ Aviation/Aerospace experience
ASRC Federal and its Subsidiaries are Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, gender, color, age, sexual orientation, gender identification, national origin, religion, marital status, ancestry, citizenship, disability, protected veteran status, or any other factor prohibited by applicable law.
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Updated March 14, 2024
Updated March 14, 2024