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Company Overview

EchoStar Corporation, a publicly traded company on the NASDAQ stock market under the ticker SATS, brings more than 25 years of experience in delivering innovations in digital TV entertainment, set-top boxes, and end-to-end video delivery systems. EchoStar provides valuable service to satellite, IPTV, cable, terrestrial, and consumer electronics markets worldwide by combining engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, and service into one company. With over 2,000 professional employees worldwide, EchoStar is dedicated to providing superior service to our customers in creative and cooperative development efforts. As a result of our extensive experience with set-top boxes and satellite delivery systems, we are able to provide businesses and multichannel operators with competitive business strategies, practices, and reduced operational costs.

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Job Description

The scope of this job includes fabrication, installation, maintenance and repair of the radio frequency (RF) equipment used in large scale satellite downlink and uplink operations. Some supervision of entry level technicians is required. Assist in the training of entry level technicians on operations and procedures in the Earth Station.

 

Duties and Responsibilities

 

  • Performs fabrication and installation of wave-guide assemblies, cables, and fiber-optic systems, and follows procedures to check for RF leakage in wave guide paths.
  • Performs component level troubleshooting and repair of High-Power Amplifiers (HPAs), fiber-optic systems, up converters, down converters, RF switching units, Antenna Control Units (ACUs), Low-Noise Amplifiers (LNAs) and Low-Noise Block Down converters (LNBs).
  • Performs maintenance and repair on large transmit/receive and receive-only satellite antenna systems.
  • Uses the following types of test equipment: spectrum analyzer, network analyzer, signal generator, multi-meter, fiber-optic test set and RF detectors.
  • Composes purchase orders, shift reports, outage reports and maintenance-action forms.


Job Requirements

Associate Degree in Electronics and at least 4 years earth station systems experience.

 

EchoStar offers the following benefits:

  • Medical, Health Savings Account, dental, and vision insurance
  • Flexible spending options and employee assistance plan
  • 401(k) and employee stock purchase plan
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Employee referral program
  • Training opportunities
  • FREE satellite programming
  • Opportunity for a level of responsibility that could take years to reach in other companies

If you are inspired by opportunity, take pride in results, and strive to win, we invite you to apply today!

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