Engineering Technician

Job Title: Engineering Technician
Job Description
As an Engineering Technician for a large aerospace and defense contractor, you will provide technical support to engineers on a variety of tasks, including production support. Your role will involve gathering, maintaining, formatting, compiling, and manipulating technical data, such as laboratory or material test results and engineering design changes. You will produce engineering documentation, reports, drawings, and be involved in the development of testers and tester builds.
Responsibilities

• Provide technical support to engineers on various technical tasks.
• Gather, maintain, format, compile, and manipulate technical data.
• Produce engineering documentation, reports, drawings (flow charts, block diagrams, and schematics).
• Participate in the development of testers and tester builds.
• Perform detailed mathematical calculations using established formulas.
• Conduct preliminary analyses of data in areas like trajectory adequacy and model dimensional consistency.
• Make quantitative judgments concerning technical data.
• Use personal computer to perform analyses and develop documentation/reports.
• Conduct tests and record data to assist with engineering evaluation or analysis.

Essential Skills

• Associate's Degree in electronics, electrical engineering technology, or avionics discipline.
• 6+ months of military training/combined experience in the electronics field.
• Ability to read engineering drawings
• Experience in electronic testing
• Ability to read electrical schematics

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Test fixture maintenance experience.
• Ability to troubleshoot technical issues.

Work Environment
This is a full-time position with a day shift schedule from Monday to Thursday, 6:00 AM to 4:30 PM.
Job Type & Location
This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Scranton, PA.
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $20.00 - $29.23/hr.
Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: • Medical, dental & vision • Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital • 401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available • Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) • Short and long-term disability • Health Spending Account (HSA) • Transportation benefits • Employee Assistance Program • Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
Workplace Type
This is a fully onsite position in Scranton,PA.
Application Deadline
This position is anticipated to close on Sep 1, 2026.
About Actalent


Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 20,000 consultants and 5,000 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500. We are proud to be an Engineering News-Record (ENR) Top 500 Design Firm for our engineering design services and a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing® winner for both client and talent service.


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