Fabrication Technician III - Military Veterans
at Leidos
Description
The Leidos Cargo Mission Contract currently has an opening for a Foam operations technician to work in our Webster, Texas office. This is an exciting opportunity to use your fabrication experience to provide mission support for NASA. This position will provide hands on fabrication support of foam, plastic, and textile products to our cargo and engineering teams through use of hand tools, additive manufacturing, and CNC machining. The ideal candidate must be willing to embrace a culture of safety, showcase exceptional teamwork, problem solving, quality and excel when provided training and work the necessary hours to complete the task assigned within the provided schedule demands.
Primary Responsibilities
Assist the Leidos Foam Operations team by providing manufacturing support to fabricate protective foam assemblies for the protection of hardware being flown to the International Space Station. Additional duties will include providing hands on support for prototyping, 3D printing, soft goods, electronic, large scale mockups, and mechanical components or equipment builds.
- Program and operate 3D printers
- Operate CNC Machines
- Perform hands on fabrication of contract products
- Provide technical engineering support and perform steps via work authorizing documents
- Support mockup design and development
- Move furniture, support lab organization, facility maintenance, and cleaning as required
Basic Qualifications
- High School diploma or equivalent, and 10 years related experience in manufacturing and design.
- Comprehensive experience in the use of powered and unpowered tools to fabricate end items
- Thorough understanding of how to read and implement requirements from engineering drawings
- Experience mockup fabrication for the NASA community
- Experience in operating CNC routers
- Experience in additive manufacturing
- Experience in computer aided drafting (CAD) software
- Experience in softgoods fabrication
U.S. Citizenship or U.S. Permanent Residence status is required.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experienced in running and programming additive manufacturing systems
- Experience in Creo software
- Experience in Simplify3D software
- Experience in Foam or plastics Fabrication
Original Posting Date:
2025-02-13While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
Pay Range:
Pay Range -The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
Webster, TX
At Leidos, quality performance means two things:
- Satisfying our customers by delivering the products and services they need on time and in budget.
- Continuously improving our processes so that our work meets requirements and is done right the first time.
Our proprietary EngineeringEdge® solution gives us a consistent, company-wide approach to planning, designing, developing, and delivering solutions that achieve our customers’ goals. Comprehensive and customizable, EngineeringEdge is based on industry standards and best practices from:
- CMMI®, the CMMI Institute.
- Project Management, the Project Management Institute.
- the International Organization for Standardization (ISO®).
- the International Council on Systems Engineering/INCOSE Corporation.
- Electronic Industries Alliance.
- Our four decades experience on a wide range of programs.
Many Leidos organizations have been able to earn coveted CMMI maturity level 3 and higher, as well as ISO 9001 organizational designations.
In addition, we have our own high standards for ethics and performance. Investors : Employee Code of Conduct
What does this mean to our clients? High quality products and services, developed in an environment committed to continuously improving processes and uncompromising ethics.