Electronics Test Technician

Major Energy Onshore; Gateshead; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Major Energy Onshore in Gateshead is seeking an Electronics Test Technician to join our busy engineering team. You will verify that products are correctly built and conform to test procedures, and you will program a range of processors as part of the test regime.

You will design and build test equipment to raise testing efficiency, assist team members with fault finding, and ensure compliance with quality and health and safety standards.

Qualifications

• HNC or Degree in Electrical & Electronic Engineering or equivalent.
• Experience of electrical & electronics testing within a manufacturing environment.
• Experience using general test equipment (multimeters, oscilloscopes, function generators and current meters).
• Able to fault find down to component level and communicate with staff at all levels.

Responsibilities

• Check that products are correctly built and conform to test procedures.
• Program a range of processors as part of the test regime.
• Design and build test equipment to improve testing efficiency.
• Assist team members with fault finding and the development of new products.
• Adhere to all quality and health and safety standards and contribute to failure reporting systems.

Skills

Fault finding

Communication

Testing to procedures

Programming processors

Education

HNC or Degree in Electrical & Electronic Engineering

Tools

Multimeter

Oscilloscope

Function Generator

Current Meter

Job description

An Electronics Test Technician is needed by a busy engineering company to join their team

Working closely with the design and production teams you will check that products are correctly built and conform to test procedures. This will include programming a range of processors. You will perform tests based on set procedures and recommendation for improvements in the efficiency of testing, fault find down to component level aided with circuit diagrams and maintain test equipment used to interface product under test.

You will also design and build test equipment required to improve testing efficiency of the Companies products, assist team members with fault finding and the development of new products and adhere to all quality & health and safety standards e.g. Failure reporting systems

YOUR SKILLS

The successful candidate will have a HNC or Degree in Electrical & Electronic Engineering or equivalent and some experience of electrical & electronics testing within a manufacturing environment. You will also have experience of using general test equipment (multimeters, oscilloscopes, function generators and current meters). You will need to be able to fault find down to component level and be able to communicate with staff at all levels.