Test Technician

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This Position reports to:

Your role and responsibilities:

Under general guidance from the Test and Lab Manager, the Test Technician coordinators and participates in Lab activities to ensure compliance with design test specifications and generally accepted standards. The Test Technician will also provide support for development efforts while ensuring the safety of the test environment, including physical facility and staff. The Test Technician will also pursue and identify continuous improvement activities to increase effectiveness of the test group and customer satisfaction.

The work model for the role is: Onsite #LI-Onsite

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Assist design engineers in development work evaluating components, prototype assemblies and product validation tests.
• Perform safety and EMC Certification tests to UL, CSA and IEC Standards and create test reports for third-party certifying bodies. External Travel to third party test facilities is a requirement which include domestic and international locations.
• Troubleshoot and repair electronic and electrical circuits from schematic drawings under the supervision of design engineers and/or test engineers.
• Set up and collect data with test equipment like Digital Multimeters (DMMs) Ammeters, oscilloscopes, power meters, thermometers and other lab equipment.
• Monitor and update lab safety policies and procedures including lab safety improvements, annual safety audits, MSDS, Job Safety Analysis reports, accident reports, lab wiring diagrams as additional equipment is installed, testing conditions (test setups) for safety and OSHA requirements.

Qualifications for the role:

• Associate degree in engineering and 5+ years of electronic test and troubleshooting experience OR Bachelor's degree in engineering and 2+ years of electronic test and troubleshooting experience.
• Proficiency in using lab test equipment to make measurements and interpret results.
• Knowledge of Variable Frequency Drives design, testing and operation.
• Excellent use of creating reports, documentation and presentations in MS Office Products.
• Candidates must already have a work authorization that would permit them to work for ABB in the US.

Preferred qualifications:

• UL, CSA, IEC test experience related to Variable Frequency Drives.
• Previous experience with ABB products and VFDs.

More about us ABB Drive Products serves the industries and infrastructure segments with world-class drives and programmable logic controllers (PLC). With its products, global scale and local presence, the Division helps customers to improve energy efficiency, productivity and safety.

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