Engineering Technician Supervisor – RF/Electronics & Environmental Test
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Longmont, Colorado, United States
Made for the Mission
At Redwire Defense Tech, we are committed to advancing RF technologies that support critical defense and commercial missions. Our vision is to set the standard in multi‑domain RF systems, ensuring trusted spectrum dominance and seamless connectivity for defense and commercial leaders worldwide. Our focus is on delivering scalable, mission‑ready RF technologies that balance performance, cost, and speed, enabling customers to operate confidently in increasingly contested and dynamic environments.
Innovate with Our RF Systems Group in Longmont, Colorado
Join Redwire’s RF Systems group in Longmont, Colorado, and play a key role in developing next‑generation RF products that support multi‑domain operations across space, air, land, and sea. Whether advancing resilient communications, sophisticated sensing, or directed‑energy technologies, our teams deliver cutting‑edge solutions that enhance mission readiness from orbit to the tactical edge.
Join a Team Driven by Purpose, Expertise, and Impact
When you join Redwir, you become part of a collaborative and agile environment where technical excellence and mission impact drive how we operate. We are a team recognized for deep expertise, trusted execution, and unwavering ownership of our commitments. Your contributions directly support our customers and strengthen national security priorities through the delivery of scalable, mission‑ready RF technologies.
Summary
We have an exciting opportunity for an Engineering Technician Supervisor – RF/Electronics & Environmental Test at our Longmont, CO facility. This working supervisor will lead a team of technicians responsible for RF hardware checkout, system bring-up, troubleshooting, and environmental qualification testing. The supervisor will plan and assign daily work, coordinate laboratory and test-resource priorities, ensure safe and disciplined execution, develop technician capability, and partner with engineering and program teams to deliver accurate, timely test results.
The ideal candidate combines hands-on RF performance and environmental test expertise with demonstrated front-line leadership. This person sets clear priorities, coaches employees, removes execution barriers, maintains test readiness and configuration discipline, and remains technically engaged when complex checkout or test issues require escalation.
Essential Functions
- Provide day-to-day supervision for a team of engineering technicians performing RF checkout and environmental testing.
- Plan, prioritize, assign, and monitor work across multiple programs; balance staffing, equipment, facilities, and schedule needs to meet commitments.
- Set clear performance expectations, provide regular coaching and feedback, support employee development, and address attendance, conduct, or performance concerns in partnership with management and Human Resources.
- Train and qualify technicians on RF checkout, environmental test processes, equipment operation, workmanship, safety, documentation, and configuration-control requirements; maintain an effective skills and cross-training plan.
- Lead daily coordination activities, communicate status and constraints, and escalate technical, resource, quality, or schedule risks with recommended recovery actions.
- Oversee safe, compliant execution of RF functional checkout, characterization, acceptance testing, and troubleshooting of assemblies and integrated systems.
- Oversee environmental test campaigns, including thermal cycling, thermal vacuum, vibration, shock, and margin testing; coordinate readiness reviews, test setups, instrumentation, facility interfaces, and post-test inspections.
- Review test procedures and work instructions for clarity, completeness, safety, resource needs, and readiness before release or execution.
- Ensure test configurations, equipment calibrations, data capture, test logs, objective evidence, and as-run records are accurate, complete, and traceable.
- Serve as the first escalation point for test anomalies and hardware failures; lead disciplined troubleshooting, preserve evidence, coordinate containment, and support root-cause and corrective-action activities.
- Remain hands-on as needed with oscilloscopes, VNAs, spectrum analyzers, signal generators, power meters, power supplies, DMMs, environmental chambers, data-acquisition systems, and specialized fixtures.
- Coordinate preventive maintenance, calibration, tool control, consumables, laboratory organization, and test-equipment availability.
- Partner with RF Design, Test, Systems, Quality, Manufacturing, Mechanical, and Program teams to resolve issues and align execution with requirements and program priorities.
- Drive continuous improvement in safety, quality, test throughput, first-pass yield, repeatability, documentation, and laboratory workflow using practical performance measures.
Ideal Experience
- Associate degree or technical certificate in Electronics, RF Technology, Electromechanical Systems, or a related field, or equivalent military and industry training.
- Typically 7+ years of progressive experience in electronics, RF checkout, system integration, or engineering test, including at least 2 years leading, supervising, or serving as the technical lead for technicians.
- Demonstrated ability to plan work, set priorities, allocate resources, coach employees, and coordinate execution in a multi-program laboratory or production-test environment.
- Hands-on experience with RF checkout and measurements using VNAs, spectrum analyzers, signal generators, power meters, oscilloscopes, power supplies, DMMs, and related equipment.
- Experience planning or executing environmental tests such as thermal cycling, thermal vacuum, vibration, or shock, including test setup, instrumentation, readiness, monitoring, and documentation.
- Strong troubleshooting capability at the assembly, interface, and system levels, with experience supporting anomaly resolution, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions.
- Ability to interpret schematics, wiring diagrams, mechanical drawings, specifications, requirements, test procedures, and acceptance criteria.
- Experience with test-data integrity, configuration control, calibration requirements, objective evidence, nonconformance processes, and formal test reporting.
- Demonstrated commitment to laboratory safety, ESD controls, hardware handling, and disciplined execution around energized equipment and environmental test systems.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including concise status reporting, cross-functional coordination, and communication of technical and schedule risks.
Desired Skills
- Direct supervisory experience with a small technical team, including interviewing, onboarding, training, performance coaching, and workforce planning.
- Experience with microwave hardware and measurements, including S-parameters, gain, noise figure, return loss, insertion loss, compression, spurious response, and phase.
- Experience supporting formal qualification or acceptance testing for aerospace, defense, or other high-reliability hardware.
- Familiarity with environmental test standards and customer-specific requirements used in aerospace or defense programs.
- Experience developing technician qualification plans, skills matrices, standard work, test procedures, and laboratory metrics.
- Familiarity with automated test systems, data-acquisition tools, scripting, or test-data analysis applications.
- Experience with Lean, 5S, visual management, constraint removal, or other practical continuous-improvement methods.
- Ability to support occasional off-shift, extended-duration, or time-critical testing when program schedules require it.
Grow with us as we innovate the next generation capabilities for a new era of space exploration! We offer a highly competitive benefits package along with a commitment to our core values of Integrity, Innovation, Impact, Inclusion, and Excellence.
Compensation range: $81,000 to $112,000.
Don’t meet every single requirement above? No worries. We want people who can grow, collaborate and build a stronger team. We strive to build a diverse and inclusive culture, so if you’re excited about this job posting, we encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
How We Determine What We Pay (compensation Philosophy)
Redwire determines pay for positions using local, national, and industry-specific survey data, for our locations throughout the US. We will evaluate external equity and the cost of labor/prevailing wage index, in the relative marketplace for jobs directly comparable to jobs within our company.
For new hires, we strive to make competitive offers allowing the new employee room for future growth. Salaries will be based on the applicant’s level of experience, education, and specialized knowledge and skills. Additionally, we consider the external market rate, the amount we have budgeted internally, and internal equity within the company for the same position. An employee/candidate with a stronger skill set will be considered for higher pay.
Redwire is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Redwire is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
All offers of employment at Redwire are contingent upon clear results of a thorough background check and your ability to provide proof of eligibility to work in the US. Note that some positions will also require US citizenship or ability to obtain a security clearance due to requirements of a classified program.
To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR Click Here
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