Electrical Technician I or II

This position is open to Electrical Technicians at either Level I or Level II, depending on experience. The Electrical Technician is responsible for providing support to electrical/electronics and instrumentation engineers as directed by the electronics team manager. The technician will be expected to support design, review, fabrication, and testing of instrument electrical systems, including power management, motion control, camera, and thermal sub-systems. Plans and performs technical activities, or resolves technically related problems, exercising discretion. This may entail coordinating with supporting personnel.

Essential Functions

• Performs technical support activities, including fabrication, troubleshooting, repair, and maintenance.
• Performs installation, improvement and modifications of Electrical sub-systems in accordance with schematics under supervision of senior engineers.
• Identifies discrepancies in documentation, red-line drawings or text and reports errors for updating.
• Development and execution of maintenance plans.
• Participates in the lab acceptance testing of sub-system equipment.
• Ensures that laboratory facility bench stock, consumables, spares, tools, and test equipment are maintained.
• Assists in solving design problems as required, achieving assigned project objectives.
• Solves coordination problems of a technical nature directly or in conjunction with other members of a project team.
• Assists other technical support personnel as necessary.
• Responsible for compliance with technical requirements and approved time schedules of assigned work.
• Monitors and reports results of activities and notes unusual situations.
• Builds, assembles, modifies, repairs, troubleshoots and maintains equipment for a project.
• Prepares technical documentation for use by technicians, operators, engineers, and scientific staff.

Other Functions

• Other duties as assigned.
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