Electronic Test Technician

Electrical Test Technician

Location: Irvine, CA (Onsite)

Employment Type: Full Time

• Hands‑on experience in a repair station, troubleshooting returned units that are in service.
• Do Open Box troubleshooting: ability to observe and test circuit boards to identify portions that are not functioning as intended.
• Run thermal and vibration testing with electronic units with oscilloscope monitoring on targeted data lines.
• Write and submit Engineering Investigation Reports/FAR’s to GAC via SEM.
• Learn how to test for known issues with the existing product lines.
• Develop troubleshooting tests for emerging issues with new and existing product lines.
• Interface with the Project Engineer to support technical meetings with customer and to prioritize FARs on units that are needed to prevent AOG (
  Aircraft on Ground
  ) situations.
• Interface with GAR engineers to technically discuss findings and status of investigations.
• Access R-Card (repair shop data) and interpret the test findings and failure observations noted on the database and on the test data sheets.
• Interface with the Materials and Processes lab to submit lab evaluation requests and interpret the findings to the hydraulic component level findings.
• Collect, organize, and interpret all component test results, failure observations.
  SIL (
  System Integration Lab
  ) testing, engineering directed testing, and lab analysis.
• Provide engineering directed test and inspection instructions in R-Card to the assembly and test technicians in both Ogden and Dublin to collect additional evidence and/or data to support the discovery phase of the investigation.
• Generate FARs per the GAC approved format to present and correlate the findings as they relate to the aircraft level fault.
• Determine if the failure mode is atypical and may need trend monitoring.
• Work is to be performed in the Customer Support Engineering office in Irvine, CA.
• Business travel may be required when interfacing with Savannah, Ogden or Dublin engineers/repair stations. Length of travel may be up to 5 days in duration.

Mid‑Senior level