Electronics Assembly Technician

We have an outstanding Contract position for an Electronics Assembly Technician to join a leading company located in Laurel, MD!
** US Citizenship is required.**
** Candidate must have and be able to maintain a Secret Security Clearance.**
Job Responsibilities:
Primary responsibility will be to utilize the proper tools, equipment, and processes, to assemble high reliability assemblies. These high reliability assemblies include printed circuit boards, magnetic components, cables, and harnesses. Work includes both manual hand operations and the operation of automated assembly equipment.
Verify, hand place, and hand solder components on printed circuit boards in accordance with engineering documentation, manufacturing process plans, and IPC-J-STD-001 standards.
Operate and help maintain paste printers, pick and place machines, cleaning, and/or convection and vapor phase reflow equipment.
Interface with project and manufacturing engineers in resolution of problems on hardware and in order to develop complex manufacturing instructions.
Wind magnetics, both by hand and with the help of a machine.
Assemble cables, harnesses, and chassis according to engineering documentation and manufacturing process plans.
Perform rework/repair of non-conforming hardware.
Accurately record as-built information, traceability requirements, labor hours, and other statistics into computer databases to comply with customer requirements.
Basic Hiring Criteria:
Must have 2+ years SMT experience
Must have 2+ years Electronics Assembly experience
Have a passion to learn and improve yourself and manufacturing processes.
Hold High School Diploma or equivalent.
Must be a U.S. Citizen
Must be able to obtain a DoD Secret clearance
Have a passion to learn and improve yourself and manufacturing processes.
Can work in a collaborative environment with partners.
Have excellent soldering skills.
Have crimp, cable, and harnessing experience.
Can obtain visual screening prerequisite
Have the ability to interpret both formal and informal assembly documentation.
Are willing and able to work in a Class 8 Cleanroom.
Have proficiency with PC's and MS Office applications.
Experience in assembly and soldering of electronic printed wiring boards and cable assemblies, preferably in a high mix, low volume SMT facility.
Experience soldering fine-pitch SMT components.
Experience building electronic hardware for spacecraft.
Experience wiring chassis.
Active certification to IPC-J-STD-001 with space addendum.
Active certification to IPC-620.
Exposure to manufacturing resource planning (MRP) and computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) systems.