Cleared - Senior/Principal R&D Laboratory Support Technologist - Onsite
Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, 66652, USA
Listed on 2026-02-12
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Engineering
Manufacturing Engineer, Mechanical Engineer, Materials Engineer, Quality Engineering
About Sandia:
Sandia National Laboratories is the nation’s premier science and engineering lab for national security and technology innovation, with teams of specialists focused on cutting-edge work in a broad array of areas. Some of the main reasons we love our jobs:
- Challenging work with amazing impact that contributes to security, peace, and freedom worldwide
- Extraordinary co-workers
- Some of the best tools, equipment, and research facilities in the world
- Career advancement and enrichment opportunities
- Flexible work arrangements for many positions include 9/80 (work 80 hours every two weeks, with every other Friday off) and 4/10 (work 4 ten-hour days each week) compressed workweeks, part-time work, and telecommuting (a mix of onsite work and working from home)
- Generous vacation, strong medical and other benefits, competitive 401k, learning opportunities, relocation assistance and amenities aimed at creating a solid work/life balance*
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What Your Job Will Be Like:We are seeking a motivated, self-sufficient team member for the Brazing Laboratory for the role of R&D Laboratory Support Technologist. This laboratory supports critical metallurgical joining and vacuum furnace firing steps across a variety of Sandia mission areas through brazing and heat treatment of metal alloys. We address specific material needs for some of the most prominent national security programs and scientific R&D areas at Sandia, including Z-Machine and Switch tubes.
The work in the Brazing Laboratory directly enables further material analyses and evaluation, allowing Sandia to answer both fundamental and applied science questions. As a Laboratory Support Technologist, you will make crucial contributions in support of Sandia's research and development and ensure the labs' ability to serve the nation is maintained and consistent.
Success in this role requires technical understanding of vacuum technology and fundamental materials science and ability to think critically in areas related to laboratory equipment troubleshooting and repair. Applicants should have a passion and ability to learn quickly and have genuine curiosity for problem solving. There is much we are continually learning heat treatment of metals, metal-to-metal brazing, active brazing with ceramic and composites, part assembly optimization, facilitation of vacuum technology improvements, etc.
Join our team and help us be a part of the future of Sandia!
- Operate vacuum and Hydrogen furnaces for heat treatment and brazing of metal alloys
- Clean metal and ceramic parts through mechanical prep, grit blasting, chemical cleaning, air and vac/H2 clean firing
- Perform part assembly before brazing, both large parts and under microscope
- Troubleshoot and repair lab scale and industrial furnaces including parts and sub-equipment related to low and high voltage electrical, water, pneumatic, gas supplies, hydraulic systems, vacuum pumps (mechanical, turbo, cryogenic). (Essentially, this position requires you become an expert in vacuum systems)
- Because of the continual interface with Brazing lab equipment, you will be asked to become both a Sandia Pressure Safety Advisor (PSA) and Sandia Electrical Safety Advisor (ESA) and to follow and enforce all Sandia safety policies
- Maintain preventative maintenance and calibration program(s). Send out items for calibration, replace consumables for furnaces and safety checks
Due to the nature of the work the selected applicant must be able to work onsite in Albuquerque, New Mexico Relocation will be provided for those that qualify.
Salary Range:$72,800 - $140,600
* Salary range is estimated, and actual salary will be determined after consideration of the selected candidate's experience and qualifications, and application of any approved geographic salary differential.
Qualifications We Require:- High school diploma plus 5 or more years' related experience in materials, mechanical, or chemical laboratory environments
- Experience with laboratory vacuum systems and equipment…
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