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Apprentice Controls Technician

SpaceX· Texas - Control Systems
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McGregor, TXfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Apprentice controls technician supporting build-up and maintenance of data and control systems, instrumentation, and electrical systems to enable safe, economical, and reliable access to space.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain, calibrate, configure, monitor, test, troubleshoot, install, and repair instrumentation, process controls, data acquisition systems, and electrical systems
  • Investigate, diagnose, correct, and document instrumentation or system malfunctions
  • Lay out, build, test, troubleshoot, repair, and modify developmental and production electrical and electronic units, assemblies, components, parts, equipment, and systems
  • Perform wire terminations to a variety of instruments and verify sensor health: pressure transducers, thermocouples, valves, limits, and flow meters
  • Adjust, calibrate, align, and modify circuitry and components, and record effects on unit performance
  • Read and interpret planning documents, schematics, wiring diagrams, specifications, drawings, manuals, blueprints, and engineering sketches

Qualifications

  • Associate's degree in instrumentation, control technology, electrical systems or related field
  • Experience working with instrumentation such as pressure transducers, thermocouples, valves, flow meters, multimeters, or oscilloscopes (experience from college program counts)

Skills

Required:Instrumentation and control systemsElectrical wiring and harnessingSchematics and wiring diagrams
Nice to have:Soldering and crimpingElectrical measurementsData acquisition conceptsBus architectures and communicationWindows OS proficiencyMicrosoft Office
Last updated Aug 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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