Job Title: Manufacturing Test Technician
Description
As a Manufacturing Test Technician, you will work alongside the manufacturing and test engineering teams to help maintain and improve the Manufacturing Test Environment. You have a dynamic presence and can work within a team of diverse personalities to maintain test hardware and debug assembly and board level build issues. You are a system level thinker, excited to work with hardware, wired and wireless networks, OS/drivers and custom applications targeted at IIoT solutions.
Competencies required for this role:
| Accountability | Teamwork |
| Execution | Attention to Detail |
| Intense Customer Focus | Problem Solving |
| Intellectual Curiosity | Initiative |
| Challenge | Excellent Communication |
Show off these KSAs (knowledge, skills and abilities):
Musts:
- Develop, maintain, and enhance current test methodologies and processes to enable better technology transfer, yield improvement, process optimization, failure analysis, training, troubleshooting, and developing / maintaining test fixtures and test procedures.
- Have experience testing hardware modules, software applications, and end-to-end systems test.
- Basic understanding of Schematics and Layout.
- Debug and diagnosis board level issues and give appropriate feedback to rework operators, technicians, SMT engineers and design engineers in order to correct the issue and ensure the longevity and quality of all manufactured products.
- Ability to quickly diagnose manufacturing floor issues and bucket them into appropriate failure categories (Design issues, Software Issues, Test Issues, Equipment failure, SMT Issues).
- Responsible for reading, analyzing, and interpreting of various technical procedures and reports.
- Responsible for writing reports and keeping accurate documentation.
- Must be a US Person in accordance with United States immigration laws to be considered for this position.
You’ll stand out if you have:
- Soldering experience.
- IPC-A-610: Acceptability of Electronic Assemblies certification.
- Associate degree in electrical engineering technology or electrical engineering.
A Typical Day Will Include:
- Performing assembly and standard test functions on PCBA and Final Assembly level devices.
- Working alongside the manufacturing and test engineering team to maintain effective testing for our products.
- Debugging station problems and coming up with solutions and getting test systems back running.
- Working on board level problems to find issues as they occur and give detailed instructions on the solutions.
- Maintain the test equipment in the lab anything from power supplies to network analyzers.
- Working with engineering to fix systemic problems that arise.
- Working on RMA from customers to determine fault and solutions.
- Backup for Manufacturing Engineering Technician (SMT/Equipment programming and preventative maintenance – mechanical aptitude required; training will be provided).
- Creating work instructions and training operators and peers for test and assembly.
Education: related technical experience will be considered in lieu of education.
Pay Range: $25.00 – $30.00 per hour DOE
About FreeWave
With deployments in over 39 countries, our products are leveraged by industrial end users and OEMs alike to connect, control, and optimize remote machines and processes in ways that enable smarter decisions, significant efficiency gains and immediate cost savings. Throughout our 30-year history, we’ve helped thousands of customers – government/defense, UAV/drone, precision agriculture, energy, and smart grid networks — achieve reliable connectivity for data telemetry and command and control in some of the most challenging, remote and rugged environments in the world. Today, we are transforming the extreme edge of operations – and the proliferation of smart devices within it — into a connected part of the enterprise with our IQ edge computing platform and ecosystem of solutions evolved for IIoT.
We offer:
Generous PTO and Sick Pay
10 holidays and 2 floating holidays
Excellent day one health benefits (medical, dental and vision)
Company provided STD, LTD, Life and AD&D insurance
401k with employer matching
Casual dress code
Dog-Friendly office
A culture of innovation and support
ITAR REQUIREMENTS:
FreeWave Technologies, Inc. engineers and manufactures certain products that are considered ITAR-controlled items under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). Consistent with ITAR, any position at FreeWave that involves work with the engineering or manufacturing functions of the Company may only be filled by a candidate who is (i) a citizen of the United States, or (ii) a person who has been accorded the privilege of residing permanently in the United States as an immigrant in accordance with the immigration laws or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here (https://www.pmddtc.state.gov/?id=ddtc_kb_article_page&sys_id=24d528fddbfc930044f9ff621f961987).
EOE/M/F/V/D
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or Veteran status.
This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Additional responsibilities and requirements may change at any time with or without notice.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.