Facilities Custodial Maintenance Worker (NASA Balloon Program)

Peraton provides management and technical support for NASA’s scientific balloon program which supports enabling science missions for NASA and universities across the United States and foreign scientific communities. Scientific balloon missions provide researchers inexpensive, relatively quick, long duration access to near space altitudes and environments. Balloon missions cost orders of magnitude less than satellite missions and provide platforms for heavy experiments (some greater than 5000-lbs) to operate for weeks and even months. Balloon missions have provided significant science theories and discoveries about cosmic rays, gamma ray and x-ray astronomy, optical and UV astronomy, atmospheric sciences, and cosmic microwave background studies.

Our staff are located at the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility (CSBF) in Palestine, TX where we design, analyze, build and assembly the support hardware and balloon gondola payloads for the missions. We launch the balloons from locations within the United States (Texas, New Mexico, and Hawaii) and around the world including Antarctica, Sweden, New Zealand, and Australia. Peraton’s NASA Balloon Operations Contract (NBOC) program is seeking a Facilities Maintenance Technician to join our team in Palestine, Texas.

Responsibilities of the position:

• Perform minor maintenance on cleaning equipment
• Cleaning and stocking bathrooms 
• Vacuuming, dusting, and cleaning general office areas, hallways, lobbies
• Empty and disposal of trash and recycling
• Perform inventory of cleaning supplies
• Create order list

Required Experience:

• High School Diploma or GED
• Two or more years of related experience
• Physical capability to perform janitorial tasks
• Ability to safely lift 50 pounds

Desired Experience:

• Good communications skills
• Ability to work with others with good team player skills
• Familiar with NASA Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility
• Basic computer skills
• Self-starter / motivated to create own tasks