# Senior Supervisor, Engineering Technician (R5375) **Company**: Shield AI **Location**: Dallas, Texas **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: USD 110,000-170,000 per-year-salary **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://jobs.lever.co/shieldai/c48fbf30-85a1-48a0-9c3f-253b5ce8609c?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_bfe965eb-679 ## Description We are growing the Avionics Engineering team to support the development, integration, test, production, and field support of flight-critical aircraft systems. As a Senior Supervisor, Engineering Technician, you will directly supervise a team of professional and skilled engineering technicians supporting integration, testing, debugging. This role is both a hands-on technical leadership position and a people leadership position. Responsibilities: - Directly supervise professional and skilled engineering technicians supporting avionics system testing, integration, debugging, production support, maintenance support, and flight support activities. - Execute team assignments based on defined objectives, approved processes, engineering direction, production priorities, and program schedules. - Read, interpret, and apply harness schematics, PCBA schematics, wiring diagrams, interface control documents, engineering drawings, test procedures, work instructions, and production documentation. - Support avionics integration and test activities from bench-level checkout through subsystem, aircraft, production, maintenance, and flight-support environments. - Work closely with engineers to support hardware bring-up, design verification, test execution, root-cause investigations, corrective actions, and design or process improvements. - Partner with production teams to resolve build issues, installation problems, test failures, rework needs, hardware readiness concerns, and schedule constraints. - Collaborate with quality teams to ensure work complies with inspection requirements, workmanship standards, configuration control expectations, nonconformance processes, and approved procedures. - Coordinate with supply chain teams to communicate material shortages, suspect hardware, part replacement needs, supplier issues, and impacts to build, test, or flight-readiness schedules. - Support maintenance technicians and flight support team members during aircraft checkout, avionics troubleshooting, system modification, ground test, and flight readiness activities. - Administer company policies and procedures directly affecting employees, including expectations related to safety, quality, attendance, work assignments, training, performance, compliance, and conduct. - Interpret policies, procedures, and work instructions to determine appropriate action when resolving routine employee, operational, quality, or technical execution issues. - Analyze data and relevant factors, including test results, failure trends, technician workload, schedule performance, hardware status, quality findings, material availability, and operational risks. - Develop, manage, and adjust routine operational plans to support daily priorities, weekly execution, production needs, integration milestones, maintenance activities, flight support, and monthly targets. - Use and oversee use of electrical and avionics test equipment, including multimeters, oscilloscopes, power supplies, signal generators, breakout boxes, bus analyzers, automated test equipment, and related lab or production tools. - Drive continuous improvement in technician training, troubleshooting methods, test procedures, documentation quality, tooling, workflow, and operational execution. Requirements: - 6+ years of hands-on experience with avionics systems, aircraft electrical systems, electronics, harnesses, PCBAs, integrated test environments, or complex hardware systems. - 2+ years of experience directly supervising, leading, training, or coordinating skilled technicians in an engineering, production, test, aerospace, aviation, maintenance, or advanced manufacturing environment. - Ability to read and interpret harness schematics, PCBA schematics, wiring diagrams, engineering drawings, test procedures, and work instructions. - Experience performing avionics or electrical troubleshooting across wiring, connectors, PCBAs, power systems, sensors, communication interfaces, test equipment, and integrated systems. - Experience using electrical and avionics test equipment such as multimeters, oscilloscopes, power supplies, signal generators, analyzers, breakout boxes, and automated test systems. - Demonstrated ability to provide guidance and training to technicians during hands-on technical work. - Demonstrated ability to execute assignments based on defined objectives, established processes, schedule priorities, and operational targets. - Experience administering workplace policies, reinforcing safety and quality standards, and supporting employee performance expectations. - Ability to analyze technical data, test results, operational constraints, schedule risks, quality findings, and resource availability to determine appropriate next steps. - Sound judgment in prioritizing work, assigning resources, escalating risks, and making decisions within defined objectives and processes. - Ability to work effectively with engineering, production, quality, supply chain, maintenance technicians, flight support team members, subordinate supervisors, and functional peers. ## Skills ### Required - avionics systems - aircraft electrical systems - electronics - harnesses - PCBAs - integrated test environments - complex hardware systems - supervision - leadership - training - troubleshooting - test equipment --- Source: [Apply at jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/shieldai/c48fbf30-85a1-48a0-9c3f-253b5ce8609c?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)