Test Technician

Job Outline:

The role requires a person with extensive experience of electronic equipment assembly, test, diagnosis and repair. The person must be capable of working on complex prototype, pre-production and production electronic equipment and be capable of carrying our surface mount repair work to PCB’s

Key Responsibilities:

• Survey, test and repair a variety of communication products in accordance with test procedures
• Build, test and repair of complex low volume communication products, in accordance with existing assembly and test procedures
• Maintain and develop product assembly and test capability by identifying potential process improvements and contributing to their implementation.
• Main Activities
• To ensure cost, time and quality targets are achieved for allocated tasks.
• Build, survey, test, repair and maintain complex equipment
• Control the security of these products whilst ensuring records and databases are kept up to date
• Ensure PCB’s are repaired to IPC standards
• Carry out Manufacturability analysis and formal feedback to design engineering.
• Manage stock of components to support workload

Key Skills:

• Self-Motivated, results driven with experience in diagnostic fault finding down to component level on complex communication products with a desire to improve products and the processes used to build/test
• Must be capable of building trustworthy relationships with internal customer, sub-contractor and peers
• Have knowledge of the cost of quality and providing value and recommendations to improve the quality of outgoing products
• Hands on experience of applicable assembly, test and diagnosis techniques for complex electronic assemblies
• Knowledge of low volume highly complex communication products
• Must be able to co-ordinate and lead the activities necessary to ensure that products are built, repaired and tested efficiently.

Qualifications: Must be qualified to A-level/BTEC Level 3 in STEM subjects, or equivalent vocational qualifications or experience

Hours: standard date, fully on site with the option to condense 37 hours over four days