Second Shift Testing Operator

Knowles Precision Devices; Santa Clarita (CA); On-site; USD 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Knowles Precision Devices in Santa Clarita, CA seeks a Test Technician to conduct a variety of electronic tests on parts, ensuring units function to specifications and identifying causes of failures.

You will read schedules, schematics, and manuals, prepare equipment, calibrate instruments, perform tests under specified environmental conditions, and record data for analysis.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED; 0–3 months related experience or training.
• English reading, writing and speaking required; Spanish a plus.
• Ability to present information to customers and coworkers.
• Ability to perform basic arithmetic and data interpretation.
• US citizenship, permanent resident, refugee or asylee.

Responsibilities

• Read schedules, work orders, test manuals, performance specs, and schematics to determine testing procedure and equipment.
• Test functional performance under environmental conditions (temperature, vibration, humidity).
• Calibrate test instruments per specifications.
• Connect unit to test equipment and read dials/displays.
• Record data and compare results to specifications.
• Analyze test results to determine cause of failure.
• Maintain manual or computerized production/inspection records.

Skills

English literacy

Customer communication

Mathematical skills

Safety compliance

US citizenship

Education

High school diploma/GED

Tools

Test instruments

Bench equipment

Job description

Job Overview

Conducts variety of electronic tests on parts to ensure unit functions according to specifications or to determine cause of unit failure by performing the following duties.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Reads testing schedules, work orders, test manuals, performance specifications, and schematics to determine testing procedure and equipment to be used.
• Tests functional performance of parts under specified environmental conditions such as temperature change, vibration, pressure, and humidity.
• Calibrates test instruments according to specifications.
• Connects unit to test equipment.
• Reads dials and digital displays that indicate electronic characteristics such as voltage, frequency, distortion, inductance, and capacitance.
• Compares results with specifications and records test data or plots test results on graph.
• Analyzes test results on defective units to determine cause of failure.
• Maintains manual or computerized records of production and inspection data.

Qualifications & Skills

Minimum Education and/or Experience required:

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or one to three months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Must be able to read, comprehend, write, and speak in English; ability to read, comprehend, and follow work instructions, lot paperwork, correspondence, and memos. Bilingual in Spanish a plus.
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Must be a US citizen, legal permanent resident, refugee, or asylee.

Physical Requirements

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand; walk and talk and hear, use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms.
• The employee will encounter some bending and stooping, occasional pushing, pulling and climbing, reaching, upper body and arm rotation.
• Frequent lifting of lightweight materials, some light weightlifting, and occasional lifting of average to heavy weight materials of up to 20 lbs.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and ability to adjust focus.
• Will be required to use hand tools and some power tools, test instruments and fixtures.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• None