Electrical Test Engineering Manager

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.

To directly supervise test engineers & support staff, evaluate, monitor, perform and improve all electrical engineering test activities in the Engineering Production Test Department, according to ISO documented procedures. Hands-on responsibility to personally perform complex electrical tests of RF components and prepare test reports as needed.

Salary Range: $,000

• Review and approve all engineering and production sample data.
• Prepare and review for accuracy, test data for internal/external company website.
• Distribute and oversee completion of test jobs/projects from the various Business Units, Applications & Failure Analysis Engineering, Incoming Inspection, and other internal functions.
• Prepare & approve production test specs and block diagrams for manual & automatic testing.
• Coordinate calibration and maintenance of Engineering Department’s test equipment.
• Prepare and approve Engineering Change Orders (ECO’s) via the company standard Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), according to ISO procedures.
• Oversee the design, building & completion of prototype test fixtures from the Machine Automation Engineering (MAED) group for manual and automatic testing.
• Work with Test Engineers to design test fixtures, set‑ups, test methods and specs for HTOL life test burn‑in.
• Review and/or approve or create/status open tickets in JIRA for projects pertaining to key Engineering Test activities.
• Work with international daughter companies on resolution of test issues (test specs, test methods, etc.).
• Identify manpower staffing and special facility or other support requirements to enable efficiency of projects and department output.
• Authority given to:
  • Access internal ERP tool & documentation dept.
  • Review & approve production test spec ECO’s.
  • Review & approve production sample data
  • Review & approve the purchase of new test equipment & accessories, according to the purchasing procedures.
  • Review & approve block diagrams for test set‑ups.
  • Review & approve production and robotic test data.
  • Review & approve or deny planned PTO requests by department members.
  • Plan workflow to meet daily output when department has manpower shortage.
• Ensure company policies and procedures are enforced.
• Hands‑on Test Responsibilities as Needed
• Test RF & Microwave components electrically in accordance with production, catalog and/or customer specifications using state of the art test equipment such as Network Analyzers, Spectrum Analyzers and Noise Figure Analyzers
• Prepare automatic and manual test set‑ups using block diagrams & company procedures
• Record and Verify accuracy of test data
• Summarize test results with written reports
• Segregate non‑conforming products as per production test specifications
• Identify mechanical defects by visually inspecting failed samples
• Complete test failure reports & record production run information on test history sheets
• Create block diagrams for test set ups
• Make correction to documents,…