Product Failure Analysis Lab Technician (M/F/D) - Night Shift

BorgWarner Viana, Lda; Viana do Castelo; On-site; EUR 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

BorgWarner is seeking a Lab Supervisor for the Product Failure Analysis laboratory in Portugal. You will organize daily activities, supervise the team, and ensure accurate data collection and interpretation of failure analyses, in line with company procedures.

Responsibilities include maintaining equipment, coordinating materials, and ensuring safety and regulatory compliance while liaising with internal departments and external partners.

Qualifications

• Secondary technical education required.
• Preferably two or more years of experience as Supervisor.
• Ability to read electrical schematics and use datasheets.
• Procure tools and components for prototype electronics lab.
• Ability to set up and use standard test equipment (oscilloscopes, DMMs).
• Experience with environmental testing (thermal, vibration, humidity).
• Fluency in English and Portuguese.

Responsibilities

• Organizes, plans, prioritizes, operates, and monitors daily lab activities.
• Directs preparation of lab materials, equipment, and workstations.
• Supervises staff conducting failures analysis and interpreting results.
• Maintain records, data, and reports.
• Manage lab supplies and inventory.
• Develops systems to support assay development and testing.
• Ensure safety and compliance with health, safety, and environment rules.
• Liaises with external parties and supports internal departments.

Skills

Fluent English

Fluent Portuguese

Supervisory experience

Education

Secondary education

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Power analyzers

Power supplies

Digital multimeters

Thermocouples

RTDs

Strain gauges

Job description

Responsibilities

• Organizes, plan, pioritize, operate, and monitor the daily activities of the Product Failure Analysis laboratory and facilities.
• Direct and organize preparation of lab materials, supplies, workstations, equipment, computers, and other equipment’s to ensure efficient lab operations.
• Responsible for supervising laboratory employees conducting and overseeing failures analysis activities, collecting, analyzing and interpreting lab results in accordance with company procedures.
• Perform clerical duties, maintaining records and files and compiling data and reports as required.
• Maintain laboratory supplies and materials inventory.
• Develop and implement systems designed to support assay development, stability, raw material and finished product testing.
• Facilitate the evaluation of new testing applications and instrumentation.
• Adapt and apply laboratory methods, practices, and techniques common to designated area.
• Assist staff, other functions and taskforces by providing guidance to resolve problems with instruments, test methods and use of lab equipment.
• Perform routine maintenance and repair.
• Initiate purchase requisitions, controls expenditures, prepare cost estimates for budget recommendation and submit justifications and requests for capital outlay items.
• Prepare specifications and analyze bids for purchases.
• Perform all duties to maintain all standards in accordance with company policies, procedures, and core values.
• Ensure safe laboratory conditions including safe and secure handling and storage of supplies and equipment.
• Recommend, implement, and maintain safety standards and departmental policies and procedures to comply with health and safety rules and hazardous waste regulations.
• Act as liaison with external parties on matters relating to failures analysis lab, metrology lab, testing status, approvals, rejections, documentation status, and any other subject to support all internal departments and customers.
• Continuously ensure the improvement of health, safety and environmental conditions.
• Participate in the definition, implementation and maintenance of the organization's policies.
• Ensure compliance with environmental, health and safety at work standards, policies and practices in accordance with their level of responsibility.
• Develop a culture characterized by good professional ethics and involvement in the process among employees in all areas.
• Perform other duties and tasks on assigned special projects and assignments based on unique laboratory needs not included in the activity for which he was hired, when the needs or convenience of the service justify it, for the period necessary for the said needs or conveniences of service.

Requirements & Competencies

• Secondary education in a related technical area.
• Preferably two or more years of experience as Supervisor.
• Understand how to read electrical schematics and use manufacturers’ product data sheets.
• Procure necessary tools, equipment and components for a prototype electronics lab.
• Ability to setup and utilize standard test equipment such as oscilloscopes, power analyzers, power supplies and digital multimeters with no direction.
• Ability to use instrumentation such as thermocouples, RTDs, strain gauges, accelerometers, pressure gauges, and flow meters.
• Conduct environmental testing (thermal, vibration, humidity).
• Conduct ESD Testing.
• Hands-on approach: Proactively identifies and fills in gaps where needed.
• Fluent in English.
• Fluent in Portuguese.
• Quality Decision.
• Manages Conflicts.
• Drives Results.
• Interpersonal savvy
• Manages Complexity

About Us

BorgWarner is a global product leader in delivering innovative and sustainable mobility solutions. We are a company of innovators and independent thinkers that brings together talented employees, meaningful work and amazing technology in a unique environment. At BorgWarner we constantly work towards our vision of a clean and energy-efficient world.

Our Culture

BorgWarner promotes and nurtures a diverse and inclusive environment, honors integrity, strives for excellence, commits to responsibility for our communities and the environment, and builds on the power of collaboration. We believe the health and safety of our employees are a top priority.

Career Opportunities

We manage talent as seriously as we manage our businesses and encourage you to learn about our proud history, strong culture, technologies, and vision for the future. We offer positions locally and globally with over 90 locations in 19 countries.