Quality Assurance/Control - Electronic Components

Job Description

Job Description

We are looking for an Experienced QA for electronic components. Your primary mission would be to ensure that every tiny circuit board, wire harness, and finished "box build" leaves the facility completely defect-free and compliant with industry standards.

Because they are an ISO 9001:2015 certified facility serving high-stakes industries like aerospace and medical devices, a QA role here is meticulous and relies heavily on both visual precision and technical testing.

The frontline of defense in electronics manufacturing is checking components for microscopic flaws. You would use high-powered microscopes, magnifying lamps, and automated systems to look for:

• Soldering Defects: Checking for bridges (accidental connections between points), cold solder joints (cracked or weak connections), or missing solder.

• Component Placement: Ensuring resistors, capacitors, and microchips are placed in the correct orientation, are right-side up, and aren't misaligned or "tombstoning" (standing up on one end).

• IPC-A-610 Compliance: This is the global standard for electronic assembly acceptability. You would use these specific guidelines daily to grade the quality of the boards.

• AOI (Automated Optical Inspection): Programming or running machines that take high-speed, top-down photos of PCBs and use software to instantly flag missing or misplaced components.

• X-Ray Inspection: For advanced components like Ball Grid Arrays (BGAs)—where the solder joints are completely hidden underneath the chip—you would use X-ray machines to peer through the component and verify the hidden solder connections are solid.

• In-Circuit Testing (ICT): Hooking boards up to "bed-of-nails" testers to check electrical conductivity and ensure no circuits are shorted.

• Functional Testing: For full "box builds," you would plug the completed device in, power it up, and run it through software cycles to make sure it actually works exactly how the client intended.

• First Article Inspection (FAI): When a new production run starts, you inspect the very first unit off the line with extreme scrutiny. Production cannot continue until QA signs off that the first unit is perfect.

• Defect Tracking: Logging any failures into a database. If you notice five boards in a row have the exact same misplaced resistor, you immediately alert the assembly line operators so they can recalibrate the pick-and-place machines.

Required Skills:

• Component Identification: You must be able to distinguish between basic electronic components (resistors, capacitors, diodes, integrated circuits) and understand polarity (knowing which way a component must face to function).

• Soldering Knowledge: Even if you aren't the one building the boards, having hands-on soldering experience helps enormously. If you know how to solder, you are much faster at diagnosing bad solder joints (like cold joints, bridging, or insufficient wetting).

• Basic Blueprint & Document Literacy: You must be able to read and interpret assembly drawings, work instructions, and a Bill of Materials (BOM) to verify that the physical product matches the documentation.

• Computer Literacy: You must know how to navigate basic database systems to log defects, look up digital blueprints, and enter quality data.

• Strong Visual Acuity: Excellent close-up vision (either naturally or with corrective lenses) is mandatory. You will be staring through microscopes, magnifying glass lamps, and ring lights for the majority of an 8-hour shift.

• Fine Motor Skills & Hand-Eye Coordination: You must be able to handle incredibly fragile, microscopic components with tweezers and precision tools without dropping or damaging them.

• Extreme Attention to Detail: In this industry, missing a single microscopic solder bridge can cause a piece of military or medical equipment to short-circuit and fail in the field. You must naturally be someone who notices things others miss.

• Clear Documentation & Communication: If a batch of boards fails, you must be able to write down exactly what the defect is in clear, objective language so the production team knows precisely how to fix it.

• High School Diploma or GED: This is the standard minimum educational requirement for electronics inspection roles.

Background Check and Drug Screen Required

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