Quality Calibration Technician

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Calibration Lab Full Time Regular Quality Technician Redmond, WA, US

2 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $45.00 To $50.00 Hourly

Moving Space Forward

Rocketdyne is back — and we're just getting started.

We are unleashing decades of unrivaled flight heritage to power the most critical missions in space today, from the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to an MMRTG journeying to Saturn's largest moon. National security space is shifting to proliferated constellations, creating compounding demand for exactly what we build.

If you want to do the most important work of your career at a company where One, Trust, and Bold are a way of life, Rocketdyne is your place.

Rocketdyne is looking for a Quality Calibration Technician to calibrate, troubleshoot, and repair Measuring and Test Equipment (M&TE), Test Measurement and Diagnostic Equipment (TMDE), and instrumentation in laboratory and on-site field environments. This person will apply technical expertise and metrology principles to verify equipment performance against established specifications and ensure accurate, reliable measurements.

• Calibrate, inspect, adjust, maintain, and repair instruments and test equipment according to established procedures and standards.
• Troubleshoot equipment faults using independent judgment, circuit analysis, schematics, and wiring diagrams.
• Apply metrology principles, including linearity, hysteresis, and bias, along with algebra, scientific notation, and metric/Imperial unit conversions.
• Create and maintain calibration records, test results, maintenance logs, and certificates.
• Develop, update, and execute calibration procedures; recommend process improvements.
• Coordinate calibration schedules, repairs, specifications, and tolerances with equipment owners, internal teams, vendors, and customers.
• Ensure compliance with applicable quality, industry, and regulatory requirements.
• Train employees on equipment use and care, and manage calibration equipment, supplies, and spare parts.

Demonstrated calibration and metrology experience across multiple measurement disciplines, including:

• Pressure and vacuum: Analog/digital gauges, 4–20 mA transmitters, manometers, barometers, pressure controllers and regulators, and vacuum pumps/chambers.
• Temperature and humidity: Liquid-in-glass thermometers, PRTs, thermistors, thermocouples, infrared thermometers, data loggers, transmitters, fluid baths, dry-block calibrators, and environmental chambers.
• Electrical: Digital multimeters, process and multifunction calibrators, conductivity meters, frequency standards, resistance standards and decade boxes, current clamps and shunts, power supplies, signal generators, and oscilloscopes.
• Flow: Flowmeters, rotameters, anemometers, flow standards, laminar flow elements, and thermal mass flow instruments.
• Dimensional and mechanical: Micrometers, calipers, pin and go/no-go gauges, vision measurement systems, CMMs, torque wrenches, load cells, height gauges, and drop gauges.

• High school diploma or GED.
• Demonstrated experience applying calibration and metrology principles across multiple measurement disciplines.
• U.S. citizenship or U.S. Person status.
• Ability to satisfy applicable federal government requirements for access to government information.

• Four or more years of experience as a Calibration Instrumentation Technician, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Associate’s degree in electronics technology or a related discipline strongly desired.
• Relevant college…