Electrical Engineering Lab Manager

Description

Acara Solutions is seeking highly qualified Electrical Engineering Lab Manager to work Onsite with our customer in Fremont, CA.

Pay Rate: $43-44/hr

Shift: Monday-Friday, day shift

Duration: 2 years

Duties: Manage two EE labs.
Labs are compliant to client's safety standards and that they are enforced.
Ensure the labs are stocked with tools, components Ensure labs are organized and neat Ensure that equipment is maintained and repaired quickly, environment chambers, prototype PCB routers.
Responsible for lab cleanliness, organization, moving parts to offsite storage or inventory. Manages check-in/check-out of equipment.
Work with Facilities for any new/updated connections, power, water, air

Assist as necessary with reworking PCBs:
Through-hole, surface mount, reflow soldering. Jumper wires, dead-bug ICs, Potting/epoxy material. Document rework done.

Cable assemblies: Build new and modify existing cables/harnesses.
Experience with: Harting, Molex, CPC, Ring Lugs, Ferrules, DSUB and combo DSUB connectors. Including crimp tools used, proper shield termination and wire gauge size. Propper application of Shrink tubing.
Bonus points for coax cables with RF connector experience.
3 and single phase 208/480VAC wiring to circuit breakers and contactors. Proper torquing of connections.

Enclosure Build:
Modifying (drilling, cutting) engineering box/enclosure to house all the above items. Bulkhead connectors to internal cables, internal PCB mounting, Circuit breaker, contactor, EMO and panel mount status LED mounting. Prototype fabrication skills such as sheetmetal punching/nibbling bending shearing drilling.

Engineering test support:

Able to assist Engineering in a wide range of tests/experiments.
Thermal/Humidity chambers
Test fixture build
Component cycling
Prototype builds

Test/Diagnostic Equipment:
Oscilloscopes, (with a variety of probes such as HV, differential, current clamps), signal generators, spectrum analyzers, DVMs, Hi-Pot tester, DAQs, TC/RTD loggers, FLIR cameras, solder/rework stations, 3D printing, Lab view programming.

Office/PC:
Proficient in Microsoft Office products; Excel, Word, Outlook. Web search for parts, tools, data sheets and solutions to problems

Job Requirements

Skills: Required qualifications:
* Minimum Associates degree in electronics or related field required and/or equivalent military experience that includes electronics, such as avionics technician
* Minimum of 4 years of Electro/Mechanical lab managing experience
* Experience:
o Soldering/reworking Printed Circuit Board Assemblies (PCBA)
o Building/reworking multiconductor cable assemblies; Power & Signal
o Building/reworking power distribution boxes; torque spec, circuit breakers, bus bars, cable harness.
o EE support, building/maintaining lab experiments, data collection, etc.

Aleron companies (Acara Solutions, Aleron Shared Resources, Broadleaf Results, Lume Strategies, TalentRise, Viaduct) are Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, sex, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. The Aleron companies welcome and encourage applications from diverse candidates, including people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request for applicants taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

Applicants for this position must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This position does not meet the employment requirements for individuals with F-1 OPT STEM work authorization status.