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Overview

At MAG, we provide real-time situational awareness to help our customers make the world smaller and safer. The Lead Hardware Integration Technician runs hands-on build, cabling, integration, and test while leading the integration technician team across MAG Aerospace's U.S. European Command command and control portfolio.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and perform cable and harness fabrication, connector termination, and wiring of power and signal interfaces.
  • Lead and perform vehicle integration including equipment mounting and power distribution wiring.
  • Run the integration bench, lead system bring-up, and verify work performed by the technician team.
  • Lead integration and acceptance test execution, record results, and resolve hardware and integration faults.
  • Lead field and site installation and demonstration support, including setup and operator training.
  • Provide build feedback to the electrical engineer and maintain as-built records.
  • Maintain shop, tool, and test-equipment readiness and safety.

Requirements

  • Extensive hands-on electronics, communications, or vehicle-systems integration and test experience.
  • Expert cable and harness fabrication and connector termination to engineering designs.
  • Experience wiring and integrating equipment and power systems into armored or tactical vehicles.
  • Test and troubleshooting experience with standard instruments and fault isolation.
  • Ability to read and work to wiring diagrams, schematics, and mechanical drawings.
  • Associate degree in electronics or a related technical field, or equivalent military or technical training.
  • Minimum of 8 years of electronics or systems integration and test experience.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Up to 40 percent travel, including OCONUS demonstration and installation support.
  • Work performed in bench, high-bay, and field environments.
  • Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds and work in austere field conditions.

Benefits

Health Insurance
PTO
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Pay in context

At roughly $50/hr, this posting sits about 63% above the $31/hr median for welding jobs in Atlanta, GA — toward the top of a $26–$49/hr middle band drawn from 43 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 77% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.

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MAG Aerospace currently has 1 other opening live in Georgia, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

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