Jobs at Tessera

Processes simplified federal acquisitions for supplies and services under the Simplified Acquisition Threshold. Duties include drafting solicitations, synopsizing requirements, ensuring FAR and agency compliance, managing post-award performance and invoices, closing orders, and advising Coast Guard personnel on acquisition requirements, modifications, and procedures.

Supervises galley operations across four naval-base facilities, ensuring sanitation, safety, service quality, staffing, training, scheduling, inventory, documentation, inspections, and contract compliance. Resolves personnel issues, supports employees with disabilities, maintains supplies and equipment, conducts site visits, and manages keys, vehicles, phones, and safety documentation. The role requires food-service experience, a Food Handler’s Card, a PIC certificate, Secret clearance eligibility, and access to a federal military installation.

Provides individualized career coaching, employee career planning, resume and interview support, education and tuition-assistance guidance, and career assessment services. Builds partnerships with colleges, trade schools, workforce organizations, high schools, and community groups. Maintains career plans and case notes in Workday, tracks workforce trends, supports trades talent pipelines, and travels approximately six weeks annually to employee sites.

Operate, set up, and optimize CNC machines to produce precision aerospace components. Responsibilities include reading engineering drawings and GD&T, performing inspections, documenting traceability, troubleshooting machining issues, maintaining quality and safety standards, supporting process improvements and first-article inspections, and mentoring less experienced machinists. The role requires compliance with AS9100, ITAR, export-control, and workplace safety requirements, with opportunities across Machinist Levels I, II, and III.

Supports approximately 300 employees through employee relations, conflict resolution, labor relations, training, compliance, leave administration, union coordination, HRIS administration, disciplinary processes, and employment-law guidance. Partners with managers, employees, unions, legal counsel, and vocational specialists to resolve workplace issues, maintain personnel records, support accommodations, conduct investigations, and improve HR processes. Requires occasional second-shift support and travel to Virginia twice annually.

Develop and maintain daily/weekly production schedules to meet customer delivery while maximizing manufacturing efficiency. Release and monitor work orders, coordinate across machining, assembly, inspection, purchasing, and shipping, resolve material shortages, identify capacity constraints, ensure ERP data accuracy and AS9100 compliance, and drive recovery and continuous improvement actions.

The Quality Planning and FAIR Specialist ensures products are quality-ready before production, leading FAIR preparation, inspection planning, and validation activities to prevent issues and improve efficiency.