Maintenance Operations Engineering Technician

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Maintain prototype aircraft, ground infrastructure, and test equipment to keep approved test campaigns executable and vehicles available for engineering work.
• Replace vehicle components, perform checkouts, and maintain complete maintenance documentation and configuration records.
• Execute semi-automated vehicle checkouts, reliability campaigns, and endurance tests using documented procedures and repeatable setups.
• Prepare test articles, equipment, instrumentation, and data-acquisition systems so test specifications can be executed as written.
• Verify completed maintenance and test setups meet documented configuration, safety-check, instrumentation, and data-capture requirements before test execution.
• Independently isolate and document first-order test-system or test-article faults; surface deviations and escalate root-cause resolution to engineers.
• Produce test reports that connect observations and data to reliability improvements, design iterations, and vehicle-readiness decisions.
• Travel to support testing, maintenance, and operational needs at other Zipline locations across the United States.