Engineering Technician 4

Our client, a Medical Technology company, is looking for a Engineering Technician 4 for their Sunnyvale, CA location.


Responsibilities:

• The primary objective of a Sr. Engineering Technician is to provide troubleshooting, testing, repairs, equipment maintenance, and development support to the Manufacturing engineering team to meet productivity goals.
• Additionally, this person will play a significant role in the areas of Failure Analysis, First Pass yield, and MRB review.
• Candidates must be highly motivated with a strong sense of shared responsibility and shared reward is required as well as a commitment to high product quality.
• Engineering support:
• Assist or execute engineering level tests and collect data to support design of experiment activities or characterize an assembly.
• Assist with parts order, build, and modification of development fixtures for evaluation.
• Document all activities to keep records.
• Manage time and resources in accordance with project.
• Perform other engineering technician duties as needed.
• NPI and Sustaining Production support:
• Follow Production escalation process and provide engineering evaluation of any interruptions to production line.
• Perform quick triage of the issue and recommend best course of action to keep production moving.
• Perform simple reworks on the spot (cable crimping, solder components, tap threads, clean optics, adjust alignments etc.).
• Document all activities during escalation support in formal records.
• Order parts and assemble/bring up duplicate fixtures for production.

• Understand wiring diagrams, schematics, assembly drawings, fab drawings, mechanical drawings.
• Ability to solve technical issues with a basic understanding of Electrical circuits and mechanical drawings.
• Working knowledge of computers, word processing and spreadsheet applications for documentation and data presentation.
• Ability to learn quickly and adapt to variety of technologies that allow effective troubleshooting. Examples: Digital and Analog Electronics components, optical components, servo components, machined parts, sheet metal parts, cable assemblies.
• Good communication skills to be able to partner effectively with production techs, supervisors, training department as well as Manufacturing/Design/Test Engineers.
• Proven ability to work well in team environment
• Familiarity with JIRA, Agile, and SAP or equivalent tools
• Minimum 5 years' experience supporting a system engineering group in a product development organization
• Ability to troubleshoot complex PCAs down to component level.
• Electronic and Mechanical assembly skills (Examples: soldering, crimping, box build, fiber handling, optical component handling, cable routing, and use of RTV/epoxy).
• AS degree, trade school, military technical training or equivalent. A minimum of five years of troubleshooting experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Health Benefits
• Referral Program
• Excellent growth and advancement opportunities