Systems Engineer
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Position: Wire Harness Builder – Professional Motorsports
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana USA
Reports to: Senior Systems Engineer
Department: Systems Engineering (Electronics)
General Summary:
Andretti Autosport seeks a Wire Harness Builder to support our race team in Indianapolis, IN. This position is responsible for wiring car and accessories such as switches, sensors and connectors. The ideal candidate can work quickly with great attention to detail and fully understand basic electrical circuits.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Perform wiring, harnessing, cabling (including wire stripping), crimping, layout and lacing
- Read work orders
- Trouble shoot and diagnose basic electrical circuits
- Read voltage, amperage draw, and resistance using multi-meter
- Read engineering blueprints, basic wiring schematics and diagrams
- Terminate harnesses using solder, solid barrel contacts, heat shrink, Deutsch connectors, and various automotive connectors using propper tooling
- Wire switches, relays, fuses, PTO, analog and CAN bus sensors and RF/coax connectors.
Education, Knowledge, and Skills:
- High School diploma or higher education
- Experience with Mil-Spec wiring techniques using moulded heat shrink boots, cable adhesives and service loops preferred
- Experience with analog sensor, RS232, Ethernet and CAN bus wiring preferred
- Experience with mechanical assemblies, preferred
- Experience working in the aircraft/avionics industry is a plus
- Able to follow proper safety procedures and guidelines
- Must be able to adjust to changes
- Highly organized and driven to meet deadlines
- Can focus on detailed projects through their completion
- Maintain safe, clean, efficient work area
Physical Demands
The physical demands described are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly alternates standing, sitting, stoop, reaching overhead, reaching below shoulder level, climbing up and down stairs, crouching, crawl, and climb ladders. The role regularly uses hands and fingers for grasping and repetitive movements for controlling machinery or equipment, manipulating controls on electronic devices, levers, cranks and pedals. The employee is frequently required to lift up to 40 lbs. Specific hearing abilities required in this job include: in-person one-on-one conversation, group or conference room, telephone. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, ability to adjust focus, ability to view regularly view a computer monitor. This position requires employee to be able to communicate verbally. This position rarely requires travel.
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described are representative of those an employee may encounter while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- The noise level in the work environment is usually loud to moderate. This role may be involved with several people and projects at one time and be interrupted frequently.
- The environment can be described as “busy” and “noisy” and will require excellent organizational and time and stress management skills to complete tasks.
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