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Very fast paced enviroment
Document specialist/ Customer Service (Former Employee), Reston, VA – April 19, 2013
Pros: straight schedule
Cons: location
*Heavy phone handling
*Concept and use of satilites
*Managment rarely interacted
* Smart co-workers
*Understanding the codes and scientific terminology was the hardest
*Ability to have willing individuals to teach one another was an enjoyable part of the job
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Excellent company to learn the Aerospace Industry
Senior Quality Engineer (Former Employee), Dulles, VA – April 11, 2013
Pros: provided opportunities to be involved with a wide range of projects and components.
Cons: job security is based on contracts.
Job required working with multi programs and functions. Required kinowledge of electrical, optical and mechanical components. involved performing internal audits and external audits of company functions.
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Orbital Sciences Corp is a very fund work place and there is a gym room provided too
SR. Accounting Specialist (Former Employee), Dulles, VA – April 5, 2013
Pros: free lunch sometimes
Cons: short break whenever you think you needed it.
Every day working at Orbital Sciences Corp is very enjoyable and everybody there is very friendly.
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Senior Principal Electrical Engineer (Former Employee), Dulles, VA – March 19, 2013
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If you are an engineer and want to do design work. This isn't the place for it. They contract out most of the design work.
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Orbital Sciences Corp.
Aerospace Wire Harness Engineer (Former Employee), Dulles, VA – March 4, 2013
Great place to work, very accommodating with schedules. Coworkers were always willing to help if I had a question.
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ALLOWED TO SPEND TIME ON RESEARCH AND PRODUCE THE BEST POSSIBLE REPORTS
Senior Scientist (Former Employee), Germantown, MD – February 24, 2013
Pros: good comraderie between co-workers
Cons: during mission launches, long hours had to be spent to convince the customer
The management has a very hands off style towards the employees. It encourages direct contact with the customer , travelling for appropriate meetings and presentation of results for peer review.
This attitude resulted in a very challenging environment and cooperation between all the members/co-workers on the team
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– March 26, 2013

I can vouch for the fact Orbital doesnt cross-train after having been sent up the road during a contract change. The had no regard for where I was going in my career. Leaving the Space Program entirely was my only option after wrangling with Orbital.

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Awesome Company
Senior Solar Array Specialist (Former Employee), Sterling, VA – February 21, 2013
Incredible Company to work at. Top notch for attention to detail.
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PRoductive work place that is very upbeat and fun
Sr. Support Engineer (Current Employee), Greenbelt, MD – January 21, 2013
Pros: flexible schedule
Great place to work. The environment is definitely a place to get a large amount of on the job training. Management is aware of what goes on amongst the "proletariat" but they don't micro manage. The staff is great and you could possibly find some friends here as well.
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Better than average.
Master Engineer (Former Employee), Chandler, AZ – January 16, 2013
I enjoyed working at Orbital because of a flexible schedule.
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Productive yet fun and relaxed work place
Inventory Control Clerk (Current Employee), Ashburn, VA – January 15, 2013
Productive yet fun and relaxed work place. Very friendly work environment which makes it easy to work as a team.
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Fun place to work enjoyed the workers
Senior Production Control (Former Employee), Beltsville, MD – January 9, 2013
Pros: 1 hr lunches
Enjoyed working in a aerospace environment, interesting, and challenging.
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Great Employees
Engineer (Former Employee), Sterling, VA – December 27, 2012
The employees are among the best and brightest. People work very hard on thier projects. Most do it not because they are on the job, but mostly because they enjoy the projects.
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Loved working with the team for the Hornet .
Sr. Electro. /Mech. Harness Assembler (Current Employee), Sterling, VA – November 8, 2012
Pros: hornet team is the best of the best.
Cons: layoffs
A typical day at work, started very early which I loved, the Hornet engineering team was awesome.. I learn how to build the prototype for the satilite and how to test it and install it by connecting all the cables from the flatsat to the computer racks. Used multimeter to test wiring. The hardest part was leaving that team to go back to the department – more... I started with because the Hornet was done..and I was back to doing really nothing. The most enjoyable part was working with a team that saw no difference in anyone....that was the Hornet flatsat team. – less
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Enjoyable and challenging environment
Production Planner / Scheduler (Project Manager) (Former Employee), Chandler, AZ – October 11, 2012
Great place to work building and launching rockets for the government.
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employee friendly
Senior assembly specialist (Former Employee), Chandler, AZ – September 3, 2012
Pros: hour lunches
Cons: dead lines must be meet
Great company to work for.Great mangers easy to work for.Co workers were all friendly,good benefits, loved my job was lead in my area.
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Interesting Place to work
Senior Production Control Coordinator (Former Employee), Beltsville, MD – July 28, 2012
Loved working at Orbital, friendly environment and wonderful employees.
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Great salary as well as benefits
Document Control Technician (Former Employee), Chandler, AZ – June 21, 2012
Pros: great salary as well as benefits
Cons: lack of work, incoming work based on incoming contracts
Limited advancement, timelier and more detailed feedback or evaluations.
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Wonderful Company
Administrative Assistant (Former Employee), Chandler, AZ – March 12, 2012
Pros: good benefits, management, compensation, people, advancement
Orbital is one of the best companies to work for. They have excellent benefits - excellent compensation, management, employees, and the list goes on and on.
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empresa agradável, equipe de trabalho maravilhosa
Assistente Administrativo (Current Employee), Guarulhos, SP – May 15, 2013
Pros: vale refeição, vale transporte, vale alimentação
Cons: não oferece ajuda de custos para cursos extracurriculares
Trabalho tranquilo,
Aprendi muito na área administrativa, a empresa me proporcionou a oportunidade de crescimento, tem uma gerencia excelente, meus colegas de trabalho são como uma família, excelentes pessoas.
O difícil do meu trabalho é receber as informações necessárias para o melhor desempenho já que trabalho a nível nacional com bases no Brasil – more... todo,
O mais agradável do trabalho é quando um cliente agradece e responde excelente ficou ótimo, isso é gratificante. – less
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Excelente
Agente de Proteção (Former Employee), Guarulhos, SP – February 27, 2013
Pros: prestativa
Cons: a carga horaria de 4 horas !
Foi uma ótima experiência para mim pois aprendi o que sei hoje no meu ramo de trabalho ;a lidar com o público e a lidar com companhias aéreas internacionais ,pois são bem rígidos por perfeição ,foi uma ótima experiência !Faço segurança de aeronaves e de Raio-x .
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About Orbital Sciences Corporation

Orbital Sciences maintains that what goes up doesn't have to come down -- at least not for a long time. The company makes low-Earth-orbit – Read more