Engineering Aide

Overview

Engineering Aide 3

Duration: 12 months

Location:

Mossville, IL

The main function of the engineering aide is to support engineering projects by adapting and applying engineering techniques, conducting tests and inspections, and preparing reports and calculations.

• Determine engineering requirements by conducting inspections and analytical tests, analyzing and synthesizing data, maintaining control charts, determining root causes, and preparing bid specifications.
• Resolve engineering problems by collecting analyses, researching, analyzing, adapting, and modifying engineering techniques.
• Recommend solutions and prepare drawings, schematics, and diagrams. Build harnesses and perform light fabrication builds to support implementation of drawings, schematics and diagrams.
• Meet cost standards by preparing cost-benefit analyses, and tracking and reporting expenses.
• Maintain and improve quality results by completing quality assurance tests, following standards, studying, evaluating, and redesigning processes, and implementing changes.
• Collect and enter data, generate reports and presentations, and summarize data and trends.

• Creativity, verbal and written communication skills, analytical and problem solving ability.
• Team player and detail oriented.
• Basic ability to make sketches, engineering drawings and common computations.
• Basic ability to perform details calculations to compute and establish manufacturing, construction and installation standards and specifications.
• Basic knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology.
• Previous experience with computer applications and design software related to engineering field.

• Years of experience: 2+
• Degree requirement:
  Associate’s degree in engineering technology or related field that provided skillsets is required.
• Do you accept internships as job experience:
  Yes

• Attitude, motivated individual
• Ability to hand fabricate harnesses
• Ability to read schematics, diagrams and work based off of this input

• Ability to follow provided test plans for environmental tests: thermal chambers, pressure vessels, vibration tables, etc. Plus if candidate can take on ownership of creating environmental test plans with engineering review.
• Ability to document test results in Microsoft Word, Excel or other documentation method for communication / review by engineering team.
• Ability to listen to work requests and work priorities based on multiple engineers, communicating sequence and timing to confirm acceptance and priority set properly.
• Ability to create harnesses based on documentation (schematics for example) from engineers. Ability to create harnesses with minimal engineering input is beneficial.
• Ability to use standard hand tools for mechanical assembly or disassembly of mechanical and electrical assemblies.
• Light fabrication capabilities with sheet metal or other methods of assembling / solving a problem is desired.

• Past experience with thermal couple instrumentation, bonus if it was related to thermal evaluation of electronic assemblies.
• Willingness to learn or already has PCB SMT solder skillsets
• Willingness to learn domestic and international shipping regulations and work within the organization and with the team to accomplish shipping needs
• Willingness to learn procurement systems to purchase lab needs, either buying miscellaneous hand tools or consumables, to ordering rental equipment for the team.

• Organized individual when it comes to their desk, lab and computer documents
• Self-initiative is desired, someone who will seek out work to fill time if work demands are low, there are typically plenty of things to get done in the lab

Do you now or in the future require sponsorship (e.g. H-1B)?

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