What are the responsibilities and job description for the Engineering Technician - Service position at ETI South Bend?
Job Overview
The Engineering Technician – Service lays out, builds, tests, troubleshoots, repairs and modifies developmental and production electronic components, parts, equipment, and systems.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Trouble shoot and repair current products and handle customer service calls from installers and end customers.
- Discusses layout and assembly procedures and problems; draws sketches to clarify design details and functional criteria of electronic units.
- Assembles experimental circuitry (breadboard) or complete prototype model.
- Recommends changes in circuitry or installation specifications to simplify assembly and maintenance.
- Sets up standard test apparatus or devises test equipment and circuitry to conduct functional, operational, environmental, and life tests to evaluate performance and reliability of prototype or production models.
- Analyzes and interprets test data.
- Adjusts, calibrates, aligns, and modifies circuitry and components and records effects on unit performance.
- Writes technical reports and develops charts, graphs, and schematics to describe and illustrate system’s operating characteristics, malfunctions, deviations from design specifications, and functional limitations.
- Checks functioning of newly installed equipment to evaluate system performance under actual operating conditions.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry.
- Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
- Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
- Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
- Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
- Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
- Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
- Proficient in the use of a variety of hand tools, and power tools necessary to perform required tasks
- A general knowledge of mechanics, physics and chemistry would be beneficial.
EDUCATION / LICENSE(S) / CERTIFICATION(S)
- Associate’s degree in electronic technology, or equivalent from 2-year college or technical school; or six months to one-year related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.