RF Technician II​/Team Lead

RF Technician II / Team Leader

Mini-Circuits designs, manufactures and distributes integrated circuits, modules, and sub-systems for high-performance radio frequency (RF) and microwave applications. With design, sales, and manufacturing locations in over 30 countries, Mini-Circuits' products are used in a range of wired and wireless communications applications. Our products are also used in detection, measurement, and imaging applications, including military communication, guidance, and electronic countermeasure systems, commercial, scientific, military land, sea, and aircraft;

automotive systems, medical systems, and industrial test equipment.

Mini-Circuits sells its products to over 20,000 customers globally through our direct sales force, applications engineering staff, and sales representatives, as well as through our extensive website.

Position Summary:

The RF Technician II / Team Leader is responsible for supporting the HFM MFG Line Manager with the department's engineers and technicians with the alignment and testing of RF through mmW products, up to 110 GHz, by employing proper RF, MW and mmW tuning methods to align and test integrated microwave assemblies and microstrip based passive and active components. This role also provides day-to-day team leadership to the RF Technician I to ensure priorities are clear, materials and documentation are ready, workmanship meets quality expectations, and production flow is maintained.

Salary Range: $ per hour

Job Function:

• Serve as the day-to-day Team Leader who assists the manager with the follow up on issues that may arise.
• Align and test RF through mmW amplifiers, mixers, multipliers, switches, filters, couplers, attenuators, phase shifters, limiters and other related components using the latest PNA-X vector network analyzers
• Test, tune and troubleshoot integrated assemblies when required.
• Assist in generating tuning patterns, component value changes and other design related improvements that improve manufacturability.
• Maintain high quality, production yield, and production throughput
• Prepare test reports and data summaries.
• Operate and maintain the calibration of all test equipment, including PNA-X vector network analyzers and other associated equipment.
• Maintain a clean Engineering department laboratory bench space and support calibration schedules for bench equipment.
• Utilize and train department technicians in use of latest ATE software, including MCL's PNA software.
• Support incoming and in-process inspection activities by reviewing workmanship, identifying nonconformances, communicating issues, and helping ensure inspection criteria are understood and consistently applied.
• Coordinate kitting readiness by verifying material availability, documentation, tooling, and special handling requirements before work is released to assembly or test.
• Provide technical guidance to assembly personnel on build sequence, workmanship expectations, handling precautions, and escalation of assembly-related issues.
• Support production test execution by helping assign test priorities, reviewing test data for issues, escalating failures, and working with engineering to drive corrective actions.
• Interface with inspection and assembly to troubleshoot and test issues.
• Support the engineering team in ISO audits and participate in internal and external audits.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Daily supervision of member activities to support and execute on the work schedule provided
• Move In and Move out the approved production runs via AS/400
• Review with Product Engineer to provide feedback and notes when doing "E" and "H" runs
• Issue, Review and approve ECO related to HFM production
• Support and initiate continuous improvement and operational efficiency initiatives.
• Departmental approval of test procedure and work instruction
• Review and recommend need for overtime as required to complete urgent productions runs
• Review, accept and release tested production runs and save production test data
• Add, delete and/or move operations on production runs from kit room through final inspection as required.

The duties, responsibilities and expectations described above are not a comprehensive list and additional tasks may be assigned to the member, within the scope of the position.

Qualifications:

• Associate degree in Electrical Engineering + 5 years of experience in mmW Product Design/Test or related field OR
• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering + 3 years of experience in mmW Product Design/Test or related field

Required coursework (at least 3 of the following):

• Amplifier Circuit Design (Low Noise and Power)
• Filter/Network Analysis and Synthesis Techniques
• Electromagnetic Theory
• System Analysis
• Digital Communication and Modulation Techniques
• S-Parameter based Network Analysis

Job Knowledge, Skills and

Competencies:

• Previous experience in microwave and milli-meter wave hardware test and measurement to at least 40 GHz. Must be capable of understanding if measured results are correct and agree with theory or expectations.
• Must have…