Engineering Technician

Job Title: Engineering Technician

Location: Bridgewater, NJ 08807

Duration: 4 months (onsite )

Schedule: 1st Shift

Job Description:

We are seeking a hands-on Engineering Technician to support the deployment, maintenance, and logistics of test equipment in engineering lab environments. This role is critical to ensuring equipment is installed, operational, and readily available to support engineering teams and project timelines.

This position is evolving with AI-enabled tools to improve equipment reliability, optimize calibration, and reduce downtime. You will directly enable engineering productivity by ensuring test equipment is reliable, accessible, and optimized-while helping transition engineering technical operations from reactive support to data-driven, predictive performance. Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Sets up and maintains benches, testers, and other equipment. Transports, installs, upgrades, and configures equipment and components.
• Performs measurements, documents test results and KPIs, and maintains malfunction records.
• Troubleshoots and performs repair work, rework, removal, and adjustments to equipment as necessary with individuals inside own team and with other teams.
• Sets up test equipment using hand tools or automatic test methods to perform tests of circuits, components, instruments, and mechanical assemblies.
• Executes manual and automated test plans and provides some input on test cases and test procedures; reproduces and debugs issues.
• Tracks the purchasing, shipping/transporting, receiving, and usage of inventory and equipment for test labs, field engineering, and business unit projects.

Key Responsibilities:

• Install, configure, and deploy test equipment and bench test set ups.
• Perform preventive maintenance, calibration tracking, and general diagnostics.
• Troubleshoot equipment issues and support root-cause analysis.
• Manage equipment logistics (transport, tracking, and inventory).
• Maintain accurate asset records in centralized systems.
• Ensure lab readiness, safety, and compliance (ESD, quality standards).
• Provide Tier 1 technical support to engineers during testing.
• Document procedures, maintenance activities, and equipment status.
• Use AI-enabled tools to monitor equipment performance, identify trends, and support predictive maintenance.
• Support data collection and validation to improve equipment analytics and AI-driven insights.

Top 5 Skills:

• Asset Management, Inventory Control & Logistics
• Technical Support & Customer Service
• Some test equipment knowledge - what equipment does and what it's used for
• Troubleshooting & Root Cause Analysis
• Equipment Deployment

Technology:

• Windows Operating Systems
• These are not preferred technologies. If candidates do not have these technologies, they will be rejected completely.

Education:

• Associate's degree.

OR

• High School diploma or equivalent and 1+ year of Engineering Technician or related work experience.

Experience:

• 1+ year of Engineering Technician or related work experience if the candidate has a High School Diploma or equivalent.

Physical Requirements:

• Frequently transports and installs equipment weighing at least 25 lbs.