What are the responsibilities and job description for the Electrical Test Engineer position at Apar Technologies?
Job Title: Sr. Electrical Test Engineer/ Electrical Test Technician
Location: Irvine, CA - Onsite
Job Description:
- Hands-on experience in a Repair/ repair station, troubleshooting returned units that are in service.
The individual will need to:
- Do Open Box Troubleshooting: ability to observe and test circuit boards to identify portions that are not functioning as intended
- Run thermal and vibration testing with electronic units with oscilloscope monitoring on targeted data lines
- Write and submit Engineering Investigation Reports/FAR’s to GAC via SEM
- Learn how to test for known issues with the existing product lines
- Develop troubleshooting tests for emerging issues with new and existing product lines
- Interface with the Project Engineer to support technical meetings with customer and to prioritize FARs on units that are needed to prevent AOG (Aircraft on Ground) situations
- Interface with GAR engineers to technically discuss findings and status of investigations
- Access R-Card (repair shop data) and interpret the test findings and failure observations noted on the database and on the test data sheets.
- Interface with the Materials and Processes lab to submit lab evaluation requests and interpret the findings to the hydraulic component level findings.
- Collect, organize, and interpret all component test results, failure observations. SIL (System Integration Lab) testing, engineering directed testing, and lab analysis.
- Provide engineering directed test and inspection instructions in R-Card to the assembly and test technicians in both Ogden and Dublin to collect additional evidence and/or data to support the discovery phase of the investigation.
- Generate FARs per the GAC approved format to present and correlate the findings as they relate to the aircraft level fault.
- Determine if the failure mode is atypical and may need trend monitoring.
- Work is to be performed in the Customer Support Engineering office in Irvine, CA
- Business travel may be required when interfacing with Savannah, Ogden or Dublin engineers/repair stations. Length of travel may be up to 5 days in duration