RF Engineering Technician

RF Engineering Technician I

The Effector RF Design Department is looking for an RF Engineering Technician I. This position is responsible for RF circuit card (CCA) prototyping and the building, installing, troubleshooting, repairing, and inspecting of engineering circuit card assemblies, cable, and harness systems. Work may include a wide array of engineering environments such as laser, radio frequency, high voltage, field service, engineering installations, and repair.

An Engineering Technician I will rework and modify Engineering micro-sized components on CCAs, prototype sub-assemblies, completed assemblies, cables, and harness systems per engineering drawings, schematics, or work instructions.

The Engineering Technician I will also provide on-the-job recommendations in solving hardware integration issues with mid- and upper-level Engineering and Leadership. This position may require travel to other company locations.

This position is an onsite role, located in Tucson, AZ.

• Assemble, modify, rework and/or populate CCA prototypes, to ensure proper operation per established criteria. Determine how to repair damaged units/hardware and perform required repairs. This includes:
• Reading, understanding, and accurately following prints, schematics, sketches, as well as work from verbal and/or written instructions including test procedures.
• Micro-soldering under a microscope for an extensive period.
• Build cables and harnesses from schematics.
• Quality verification and inspection under a microscope
• Identify, repair, and replace wire harnesses and cable assemblies.
• Replace mechanical and electrical components.
• Operate multi-meters or ohmmeters to conduct point-to-point current connection.
• Recognize failures, isolate problems, and suggest appropriate corrective action.
• Keep management appraised of potential problems or identified risks that may negatively affect program schedule or quality.
• Provide support and feedback to the Engineering team.

• Typically requires a Bachelor's in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and less than two years of prior relevant experience to include any combination of the following:
• Experience working in a lab environment.
• Experience reading, understanding, and accurately following prints, schematics, sketches, as well as work from verbal and/or written instructions including test procedures.
• Experience using hand tools such as soldering iron, cutters, wire strippers, and electric heat gun.
• Experience with safe use of lab chemicals.
• Experience with solder, mechanical, quality standards, processes, and documentation.
• Verification and inspection experience with associated standards, processes, and/or documentation.
• Experience with cable and harness assembly, fabrication, and/or rework.

• CCA manufacturing experience and associated fabrication standards, processes, and documentation.
• Motivated self-starter with the ability to use good judgement and work independently or collaboratively.
• Ability to perform quality work within a fast-paced Engineering environment.
• Experience with solder rework equipment to include reflow oven, mini-wave, pre-heater, hot air pencil, and de-solder tools.
• Ability to work with fabrication processes such as bonding, cleaning, coating, and mechanical fasteners.
• Ability to establish customer priorities and manage multiple tasks successfully.
• Assembly, fabrication, and rework experience of micro-size components on circuit card assemblies.
• IPC J-STD-001 solder certification.
• IPC 610 and 620 acceptability certification and inspection experience.