Engineering Lab Technician

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We are seeking an Engineering Lab Technician to join our Engineering department in Bethlehem, PA. The Lab Technician conducts a variety of electrical and electronic tests on electrical/electronic prototype systems, subsystems, and components to ensure unit functions as per power and control specifications. Familiarity with PCB control board verification and testing is desirable.

**This role is onsite 5 days per week in Bethlehem, PA**

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Able to read and understand technical specifications, wiring diagrams, and schematics of systems/subsystems to understand and determine testing procedure and equipment to be used.

- Tests functional performance of systems, subsystems, and components under specified electrical conditions such as voltage, power, temperature, and load.

- Connects system/subsystem unit to be tested to equipment such as signal generator, frequency meter, DC/AC power supply and oscilloscope.

- Reads dials or 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 graphs.

- Analyzes test results on test units to determine cause of malfunction.

- Confers with engineers, technicians, and others regarding testing procedures and results to resolve issues.

- Familiarity with IGBT/MOSFET based Inverter power circuit desirable.

- Lead Acid Battery knowledge is desirable.

- Able to conduct UL required test on Inverter unit.

Requirements

Associate's degree (A. A.) or equivalent from two-year college or technical school; or 2 yrs technical training / experience (i.e. trade school, military, or other employment in electronics/electrical field). Skilled at using Microsoft Word and Excel.