Engineering Support Technologist

Spectra Tech is in need of an Engineering Support Technologist in NM.

What your job will be like:

Are you passionate about your work and dream of utilizing state-of-the-art facilities to explore solutions? Join a dynamic team that helps tackle some of the most challenging issues facing our nation's security. You could be the Pulsed Power Mission Assurance R&D Laboratory Support Technologist we are looking for to join the Z High Hazard Operations team!

On any given day, you may be called upon to:

* Assist in the planning and coordination of daily pre-and post-experiment activities.

* Participate in the development and implementation of Engineered Safety practices and Work Planning & Controls aligning with ES&H requirements for required work activities.

* Set up, operate, maintain, and modify commercial and custom-built scientific systems (e.g. Magnetically Insulated Transmission Lines (MITL) and Center Stack).
* Set up and quality check complex laboratory experiments involving various types of diagnostics.

* Perform critical lifts with bridge cranes and forklifts, confined space entries, and assist with general laboratory operations (e.g. ordering and stocking consumables, materials movement, housekeeping).

* This work environment requires extended physical activity while wearing personal protection equipment (PPE), including full Tyvek and respirator (2-6 hours per day); entering and working in confined spaces and non-air-conditioned environments; climbing up and down ladders numerous times a day while wearing PPE; climbing multiple flights of stairs numerous times a day; and bending, twisting, climbing, crawling, crouching, squatting, pushing, and pulling.
* Assist, cross-train, and shadow any 1600 personnel as need to support facility operations.

* Individually or with the team, recommend and initiate new concepts and ideas to improve workflow and practices.

Qualifications we Require:

* High School diploma or equivalent plus three years of proven experience

* Experience with hand, power, and/or machine tools

* Able to acquire and maintain a DOE Q security clearance

* Flexibility to work a variable shift schedule in the day or night

Qualifications we Desire:

* Experience working in environments that are high consequence and/or require wearing PPE
* Ability to operate various types of heavy equipment

* Experience in implementing quality principles and standards, utilizing Work Process & Controls

* Highly self-motivated, adaptable to change, effective collaborator in high-stress situations

* A documented history of developing new skills and increasing expertise

* Hands-on experience in the servicing/repair/development of a complex system (electrical, mechanical, electro-mechanical)

About Our Team:

Department 01671, High Hazard Operations, is a united, interdisciplinary team dedicated to ensuring operational readiness, adaptive execution, and systems of systems analysis for scientific campaigns. Our team is responsible for operating and maintaining commercial and custom-built scientific systems in support of setting up and quality checking complex laboratory experiments involving a diversity of R&D diagnostics. Dedicated quality management, ES&H, and logistics focused teams work together to provide essential mission support for the entire Z facility and its many dynamic mission needs.