Senior Test Technician

Job Summary:

 

The Senior Test Technician is responsible for performing environmental testing to validate product performance under various conditions, ensuring compliance with MIL-STD-810, DO-160, and customer specifications. This role involves operating environmental test equipment, maintaining detailed documentation, and supporting engineering teams to deliver reliable, high-quality products.

 

Job Responsibilities:

• Operate and maintain environmental test equipment, including thermal chambers, vibration tables, and centrifuges.
• Maintain and calibrate test equipment to ensure reliability.
• Conduct tests such as temperature cycling, thermal shock, burn-In, random/sine vibration (powered and unpowered), and constant acceleration according to specifications.
• Troubleshoot and resolve equipment or test setup issues.
• Record, analyze, and report test results, ensuring accuracy and completeness.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to refine test procedures and support product design improvements.
• Ensure adherence to safety protocols and compliance with relevant standards.
• Coordinate preventative maintenance and service calls.
• Communicate goals and priorities with management to maintain deadlines.
• Cross train new employees to support as back-up for ESS
• Work from schematics, work instructions, drawings, and operating procedures.

 

Required Qualifications:

• Associate degree in electronics, engineering technology, or a related field.
• Ideally 5+ years in laboratory testing, including 2 years environmental testing, with knowledge of MIL-STD-810 and DO-160
• Proficiency in operating test systems
• Strong analytical abilities

Preferred Qualification:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to:

• Constantly move objects and use abdominal and lower back muscles to provide support over time without fatigue.  Specific abilities required by the job include positioning oneself to lift or move objects weighing up to 40lbs.
• Constant movement and use of limbs. Specific abilities required by this job include prolonged sitting, twisting and working under a microscope for long periods of time will be required. Occasional Standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling, climbing, and gripping is required daily.
• Frequently observe, detect, discern, and convey information. Specific abilities required by this job include near, far and color vision acuity, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
• Requires good manual dexterity, coordination, and stamina. Ability to safely control surgical razor blades and small hand tools used to manipulate tuning stub under a microscope. Specific abilities required by this job include the frequent requirement of overtime work.

This position requires you to access information that is subject to U.S. export regulations. You may only access such information if you are a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. government.

 

Qualifications Why should you join Mercury Systems?

Mercury Systems is a technology company that makes the world a safer, more secure place. We push processing power to the tactical edge, making the latest commercial technologies profoundly more accessible for today's most challenging aerospace and defense missions. From silicon to system scale, Mercury enables customers to accelerate innovation and turn data into decision superiority. Headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts, Mercury employs more than 2,300 people in 24 locations worldwide. To learn more, visit mrcy.com

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