Electronics Technician Job Description
Electronics Technician Duties & Responsibilities
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Electronics Technician Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Electronics Technician
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: IPC, II, NICET, ET, J-STD-001, J-STD, E.P.A, HSE, IAW, ASE
Education for Electronics Technician
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the electronics technician job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Associate and Collage Degree in Electronics, Technical, Associates, Education, Electronics Technology, Military, Electrical Engineering, Graduate Education, Engineering, Electronics Engineering
Skills for Electronics Technician
Desired skills for electronics technician include:
Desired experience for electronics technician includes:
Electronics Technician Examples
Electronics Technician Job Description
- Install, set up, and verify instruments on telescopes
- Perform engineering tasks at the direction of the Electrical Engineers and/or Observatory Electrician, including wiring, soldering, and troubleshooting electrical components
- Given inputs from the existing telescope schedules, customers, and management, help plan, document, monitor, and report the status of activities and projects, including instrument setups and tasks
- Perform cryogenic maintenance, such as cryogen transfer and vacuum insulation maintenance using turbopumps on scientific instrumentation
- Fabricate and repair both copper-based and fiber optic cable
- Review and update electronic technician procedure, inventory, and logging documents
- Participate in the troubleshooting of all the electronic systems located at the observatory, including complex computer, network, and electrical systems
- Install, maintain and monitor computer-based Direct Digital Control (DDC) system
- Calibration and maintenance of equipment of the SRA
- Establishing, with the staff Engineer, a systematic calibration schedule for all plant instruments and to enforce this schedule
- Demonstrated work ethic and desire to excel at assigned tasks
- Have experience using electronic test equipment
- Be a highly motivated self-starter capable of working independently in group settings
- Associates Degree in an Engineering related discipline (Electronics, Engineering Technology, ) or equivalent professional experience
- Expertise with the use and operation of standard electronic test equipment
- Ability to take initiative in troubleshooting of issues
Electronics Technician Job Description
- Developing and conducting of technical training programs
- Keeping accurate and orderly files of work performed maintaining up-to-date schematics of all equipment under test
- Establishing a spare parts list for plant instruments and electronic equipment
- Actively and continually evaluating process machine operations to identify and implement process improvement projects
- Specification and installation of new components and equipment
- Modification and debugging of production control and data acquisition software and systems
- Implementation of Continuous Improvement, Cost Reduction, and safety projects
- Operation of Lathe, Drill Press, power tools, hand tools
- Troubleshoot, diagnose and repair electronic components, parts, equipment, and systems including testing, modifications, replacements and repairs
- Complete documentation such as shop and work order records and submits required reports
- These duties may include painting, assembly, repair, and equipment relocation activities
- As an added bonus, it is highly desirable for the candidate to be willing to deploy at sea for two to four cumulative months per year to support equipment operations and maintenance
- Learns and follows safety standards
- Learns new technologies related to job duties
- Technical Trade School desirable
- 2 years or more experience with electromechanical assembly
Electronics Technician Job Description
- Utilize company database to locate parts and manuals
- Apply principles and basic theories of electronics, electrical circuitry, mathematics, testing, and elementary physics
- Product adaptation as per change request from the customer
- Designing and documentation updates of electronic products (BOM, Schematics, Gerber files )
- Working closely with manufacturing engineering to move products from design to manufacturing
- Presenting and participating in project reviews to ensure that project deliverables are met
- Prototyping, documenting, testing, and evaluating for electronic products
- Understanding customer change request and provide schedule
- Performing technical feasibility study
- Executing design updates with high quality delivery (simulations, design analysis )
- Experience with Low voltage wiring
- Strong understanding of electrical and electronic test equipment to the component level
- Ability to use test equipment such as oscilloscopes, curve tracers, and multimeters
- Assist the Workshop Supervisor in the conduct of general support activities such as Workshop issue analysis and resolution, HSE management
- Working knowledge of analog and digital electronics and electrical systems
- Understands how to read schematic diagrams
Electronics Technician Job Description
- Handling engineering change control & data management process
- Providing inputs for ECM package
- Providing inputs for factory tester specification (FCT/FFT)
- Support Electronics Engineering Innovation projects
- Prototype/assemble/test electronic controls and circuit boards
- Perform thermal testing of electronic assemblies
- Graph and provide basis analysis of test data
- Document new test procedures
- Understand and follow specifications, schematics, drawings, and process instructions in order to assemble and repair electro-mechanical components or sub-assemblies
- Understand the appropriate action to prevent deviations from disrupting normal workflow
- Skilled in electronic construction techniques for cabling, wiring, and replacement of components
- Can demonstrate the ability to use electronic test instrumentation such as oscilloscopes, DVM, and logic analyzers
- Able to safely work in elevated or confined spaces
- Able to work at site elevation of 6000 feet
- Successful completion of background check and physical exam
- Computer literate and knows how to use schematic capture software Observatory electronics experience
Electronics Technician Job Description
- Investigate and resolve product/component problems as reported by the customer
- Demonstrate good oral and written communication skills, organizational and interpersonal skills
- The ability to read blueprints, wiring diagrams, schematic drawings, and engineering instructions for assembling electronics units
- Repairs may include, but not limited to, coach fare box, receivers, vaults, and ticket vending machines
- Tracks and reviews repair information from files
- Maintain accurate and detailed Engineering Records and Data based on the guidelines of ISO/IEC 17025
- Assist with the performance of a “Preventative Maintenance Program” for all of the test and measurement equipment
- Coordinate and oversee incoming and outgoing shipments
- Assist Manufacturing Engineers with dispositioning and assembling electronics subassemblies for repair from schematics, rough sketches, and verbal instructions
- Troubleshoot and problem solve an electronic system to determine cause and remedy for malfunctions
- Must have knowledge of BAS
- Requires working knowledge of Microsoft Windows software and Microsoft Office applications
- Significant experience in pneumatic, electric and electronic control systems
- Two year technical diploma
- Willingness to work in an office in Elkhart, IN
- Knowledge of computer operations and applications pertinent to the field is required