Technician Field

Installs, operates, maintains, repairs and modifies equipment. Performs a variety of maintenance and technical support on products such as equipment, integrated systems and subsystems, and software at customer and/or field locations. Analyzes and evaluates products and related performance. Troubleshoots and diagnoses malfunctions to eliminate problem in minimum time. Installs, upgrades and removes products ensuring coordinative engineering field change. Maintains effective customer communications and relations. May provide onsite training of customer support personnel.
The individual will work with the engineering team in troubleshooting and evaluating customer fielded hardware at the in-plant depot. Applicant should be able to interface effectively with multiple functional groups including: production, engineering, quality, and other logistics and support personnel to achieve completion of depot operation activities.
Candidate will perform a variety of complex maintenance tasks (rework, repair, fault isolation) on customer deliverable, electro-mechanical assets, and sub-assemblies such as modules, boards, panels, and cables. Assess product needs in accordance with engineering and customer specifications. Troubleshoot technical problems and issues, determine technical solutions in accordance with product engineering documentation and customer specifications, and recommend actions for coordinative product solution.
Basic Qualifications:
• Ability to understand schematics, generate rework instructions, diagnose faults and troubleshoot all-up assemblies to the LRU level and circuit cards down to the component level.
• Experience with soldering surface mount (SMT) and through hole components to PWBs
• Trained in IPC specification J-STD-001.
• Uses microscope to verify correct part placement and orientation, manually align parts before soldering and perform post re-flow inspection and touch-up.
• Must be able to read instructions and identify standard SMT components.
• Able to identify and touch up poor wetted solder joints, solder voids / insufficient solder, solder shorts/ bridges, misaligned parts / leads, components and any out solder defects that may occur during the SMT operation.
• Ability to perform electrical measurements and analysis using a variety of tools, measurement, and test equipment (Multimeters, Oscilloscope, Logic Analyzers, network analyzers and waveform generators) to verify compliance to engineering specifications and tolerances
• Fluent with Microsoft Office Suite: Word, Power Point, and Excel
• 3 – 5 years of relative experience
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to adapt to dynamic and frequently changing customer requirements
• Ability to understand policies and procedures for the control of Government property
• Active secret clearance and ability to maintain clearance
Desired Skills
• Familiarity with depot level maintenance procedures and repair methods
• Certified in J-STD-001, IPC 7711/7721, and IPC-7095
• Ability to move between areas where additional support is required such as testing, mechanical assembly, and wiring are required in addition to soldering
• Familiarity with digital multi-meters, source measurement units, oscilloscopes, counter/timers, and arbitrary waveform generators
• Knowledge of dynamic digital IO
• Experience in supporting and interfacing with a production floor, fielding technical questions from manufacturers, inspectors, and testers
• Excellent verbal and written communication and organization skills. Proper record-keeping of lab activities is a must.