Decal Lab Technician (NASA CMC)

Description

The Leidos Cargo Mission Contract currently has an opening for a Decal Lab Technician to work in our Webster, Texas office. This is an exciting opportunity to use your fabrication and design experience to provide mission support for NASA. This position will provide hands-on fabrication support of decal, label, and placard products to our cargo and engineering teams through use of hand tools, printing, metal photo process, and CNC cutting. The position will also provide design support using Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and CodeSoft. The ideal candidate must be willing to embrace a culture of safety, showcase exceptional teamwork, problem-solving, quality, excel when provided training, and work the necessary hours to complete the task assigned within the provided schedule demands.

U.S. Citizenship or U.S. Permanent Residence status is required, and the ability to obtain a Public Trust Security Clearance.

Primary Responsibilities:

Assist the CMC Decal Operations team by providing manufacturing support to fabricate decal, label, and placards to support flight hardware for the International Space Station and Exploration programs, mockups, and trainers. Additional duties will be providing design support to create graphics in support of the decal lab, CMC, and Leidos.

Duties include:

• Create artwork for decals using Photoshop, Illustrator and CodeSoft.
• Read and interpret information from Engineering Drawings and eLabel orders to produce decals, placards, labels, and graphics compliant with the fabrication requirements.
• Produce decal products using various production process and materials from start to finish.
• Perform quality checks on artwork prior and postproduction.
• Provide technical engineering support and perform steps via work authorizing documents.
• Support lab organization, maintenance, cleaning, and inventory as required.

Minimum Qualifications:

• At least 2 years of experience in manufacturing or 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
• Comprehensive experience in graphic design using the Adobe Suite
• Comprehensive experience in fabrication of decals and placards
• Comprehensive experience with large format printers

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree
• Experience with the CMC eLabel tool
  Experience with RFID tags and software
• Experience with mockup development
• Experience with UV printers

This position is covered under the Service Contract Act and is subject to minimum wage requirements as well as minimum Health and Welfare benefits. The rate for this position is expected to be $25-27/hr, but may be higher based on actual experience.

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For U.S. Positions: While 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.

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand 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.

About Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

Pay and Benefits

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