Avionics Lead – Integration / Electromechanical

Why Castelion, Why Now Castelion is moving incredibly fast to develop and deliver advanced defense systems at a time when execution matters more than ever. We believe focus, ownership, and excellence are decisive advantages - and we're building a world-class team to turn bold ideas into real capability. This is a rare opportunity to join at an early stage, where you'll have significant ownership, collaborate with exceptional teammates, and make a direct, measurable impact on our mission and the future of the company - regardless of your function. Role Overview The Avionics Lead – Integration / Electromechanical is a hands-on floor leadership role responsible for supporting avionics integration, electromechanical assembly, hardware installation, and related production activities. The Lead is expected to maintain strong floor awareness, identify blockers and schedule risks early, coordinate support across multiple teams, and help technicians execute work correctly and efficiently. This role will work closely with technicians, Quality, Manufacturing Engineering, Responsible Engineers, Mechanical Engineering, Planning, Test, and the Avionics Supervisor. Responsibilities - Maintain daily visibility of integration and electromechanical work in progress. - Identify blockers, delays, hardware shortages, access issues, tooling problems, drawing concerns, engineering questions, and process gaps early. - Drive blockers to the correct support team and follow through until resolution. - Communicate schedule risks and delays to the Avionics Supervisor before they impact major milestones. - Serve as the first technical point of contact for integration and electromechanical technicians. - Support installation of avionics boxes, panels, brackets, grounding hardware, harnesses, sensors, switches, connectors, and other electromechanical assemblies. - Help technicians interpret mechanical drawings, electrical drawings, work instructions, torque requirements, routing requirements, and installation specifications. - Verify technicians are working to the correct revision and released documentation. - Identify fit-up, alignment, tolerance, access, routing, and sequence-of-installation issues. - Support troubleshooting when hardware does not fit, mate, communicate, power up, or test as expected. - Coordinate work where mechanical, electrical, harnessing, and test activities overlap. - Coordinate with Quality for in-process inspections, torque verification, bonding checks, final inspection, and other required acceptance points. - Ensure inspections are planned early enough to avoid production delays. - Support grounding, bonding, connector mating, hardware locking, torque, and final installation requirements. - Support first article, first-build, and vehicle-level integration activity. - Capture lessons learned from early builds and help roll improvements into later builds. - Train and mentor technicians on integration and electromechanical workmanship. - Identify recurring installation or sequencing issues and work with Manufacturing Engineering to improve the process. - Maintain strong handoffs between technicians, shifts, Quality, Engineering, Test, and Planning. - Provide clear status updates during daily stand-ups and production meetings. - Help maintain clean, organized, safe, and production-ready work areas. Qualifications - Strong hands-on electromechanical or avionics integration experience. - Experience installing avionics hardware, harnesses, brackets, panels, grounding hardware, connectors, or related assemblies. - Ability to read and interpret mechanical and electrical drawings. - Understanding of torque, bonding, grounding, connector mating, routing, and hardware installation requirements. - Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills. - Experience supporting first article, prototype, development, or production builds preferred. - Strong communication and organization skills. - Ability to train and mentor technicians. - Comfortable coordinating work across Engineering, Quality, Test, Planning, and production teams. - Must be proactive and comfortable escalating issues early. Castelion offers a generous benefits package. Please refer to the bottom of our Careers page for more details. Other Duties Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice. Additional Eligibility Requirements This position may require access to classified information or restricted U.S. Government sites, systems, or information, as determined by the Company and/or applicable U.S. Government requirements. If the position is so designated, your employment in the role may be contingent upon your ability to obtain and maintain the required U.S. Government security clearance or other government authorization, and to satisfy any citizenship or other eligibility requirements imposed by applicable law, regulation, executive order, or government contract requirements. You will be notified if and when such requirements apply. Affirmative Action/EEO Statement Castelion is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. Castelion is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities throughout the application and hiring process. If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete an application, participate in the interview process, or otherwise participate in the hiring process, please contact hr@castelion.com. Requests for accommodation will be considered on an individual basis and handled in accordance with applicable law. Castelion is committed to fostering a workplace where employment decisions are based on qualifications, business needs, and the ability to perform the essential functions of the role, with or without reasonable accommodation. EAR/ITAR Requirements This position requires access to export-controlled information, and as such, employment (or hiring of a contractor) is contingent upon the candidate’s ability to access all applicable export-controlled information without additional export licensing being required by the Bureau of Industry and Security and/or the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls.