What are the responsibilities and job description for the Engineering Aide/Electronics Technician - 529 position at DSM-H Consulting?
Manager Notes:
Experience with PCBAs / printed circuit board type soldering, rework and efforts that level are highly desirable for this role.
Candidates should demonstrate strong technical skills, ownership of tasks, and interest in electronics (e.g., harness assembly, design, circuit-board work, reading schematics, building/testing).
Typical task breakdown:
- Normal day will involve being in the lab to support environmental testing, light fabrication or doing other work to support the best operation of the lab and the program that the engineering aide is assigned to.
Interaction with team:
- Interaction will occur through formal established team meetings or direct engagement while in the lab.
Team Structure
- Teams are setup according to product lines
- Platform Lead is product / team responsible, Technical Lead is technology direction and delivery responsible, Support Engineers / Engineering Aides provide support to deliver on the product.
Work environment:
Seat will be in an office adjacent to lab environment.
Education & Experience Required:
- Years of experience: 2
- Degree requirement: Associate’s degree in engineering technology or related field that provided skillsets is required.
- Do you accept internships as job experience: Yes
Skills
- Attitude, motivated individual
- Ability to hand fabricate harnesses
- Ability to read schematics, diagrams and do work based off of this input.
Additional Technical Skills
(Required)
- Ability to follow provided test plans for environmental tests: thermal chambers, pressure vessels, vibration tables, etc… Plus if candidate can take on ownership of creating environmental test plans with engineering review.
- Ability to document tests results in Microsoft Word, Excel or other documentation method for communication / review by engineering team.
- Ability to listen to work requests and work priorities based on multiple engineers making request, communicating sequence and timing to confirm acceptance and priority set properly
- Ability to create harnesses based on documentation (schematics for example) from engineers. Ability to create harnesses with minimal engineering input is beneficial.
- Ability to use standard hand tools for mechanical assembly or disassembly of mechanical and electrical assemblies
- Light fabrication capabilities with sheet metal or other methods of assembling / solving a problem is desired.
(Desired)
- Past experience with thermal couple instrumentation, bonus if it was related to thermal evaluation of electronic assemblies.
- Willingness to learn or already has PCB smt solder skillsets
- Willingness to learn domestic and international shipping regulations and work within the organization and with the team to accomplish shipping needs
- Willingness to learn procurement systems to purchase lab needs, either buying miscellaneous hand tools or consumables, to ordering rental equipment for the team.
Soft Skills
(Required)
- Organized individual when it comes to their desk, lab and computer documents
- Self-initiative is desired, someone who will seek out work to fill time if work demands are low, there are typically plenty of things to get done in the lab
(Desired)
- Willingness to learn and conduct performance tests of electrical components under direction of engineers for functional verification of field returns or post test capability review. This may require advanced capabilities leveraging Client and potential third party software tools and test setups.