Production Technician

Primary Responsibilities

• Provides technical assistance to Production Assembly Leads and Associates related to all production cell equipment, fixtures, and test systems.
• Acts as a real-time support function to triage, troubleshoot, and repair of production test systems.
• Builds, deploys, and validates production test systems from various documentation, instructions, schematics, drawings, diagrams, layouts and plans.
• Provides technical assistance to Product Development Engineering team for all related prototyping and testing.
• Provides process improvement contributions related to test development, deployment, and management.
• Performs routine calibration and maintenance on instruments, systems and electronic circuits.
• Provides production operations fixture and tooling design support for both NPI and sustaining product applications.
• Supports production operations equipment preventative maintenance, upgrade, repair and troubleshooting as necessary.

Qualifications

• Essential: Competency for analyzing, troubleshooting, and repairing mechanical and electronic systems.
• Knowledgeable of computer hardware and Windows applications, and ability to support application installations and device drivers to ensure function of hardware peripherals.
• Familiarity with analog and digital electronics and associated low voltage systems and communication protocols.
• Adept at using electronic instruments such as oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, multi-meters, power supplies, audio analyzers, and vision systems.
• Understands electrical schematics and correlates how to troubleshoot and repair circuit boards.
• Able to build and repair low voltage cable and connector assemblies, including associated soldering and crimping activities.
• Able to design, build/fabricate, and validate production fixtures, tooling, and related support equipment.
• Able to support and execute product performance testing to include test planning, procedure development, test conduct, report development; data analyses support as required.
• Able to define and execute preventative maintenance requirements in support of production operations equipment.
• Able to communicate on a technical level with engineers when issues need to be escalated for additional support.
• Able to conceive, evaluate and implement design changes to instruments, circuits or processes.
• Capable of multitasking and supporting various projects differing in scope and complexity.
• Proficient with MS Office programs such as Excel and Word.
• Able to develop and troubleshoot test software such as LabVIEW, Visual Basic, or related.

Qualification Desired

• Industrial Automation Equipment (motion control, vision systems, robotics)
• Schematic Capture / Circuit Design
• PCB Layout
• SolidWorks CAD
• IPC Certified
• Product test experience (e.g. acceptance testing, qualification/DVT, HALT/HASS/ESS, environmental, reliability demonstration/growth, life/aging)

Education/Previous Experience Requirements

• AA degree in electronics or equivalent work experience, minimum 6 years.
• Previous manufacturing experience preferred.