Engineering Technician 1

Flex • Austin, TX

7d • Onsite

About The Position

The Engineering Technician 1 will be based onsite in Austin, TX (Flex Headquarters), reporting to the Senior Director of Research & Engineering. Will perform mechanical, electrical, and testing of product design for a new and rapidly growing division within Flex. Will also work in comprehending the product requirements, assembling prototypes for products under development, fixture creation for assembly and test of prototypes. Will implement world-class solutions for our customers.

Requirements

• Functional knowledge, education background or 1 year working experience required.
• Good communication skills and excellent relational skills.
• Demonstrates a general knowledge of functional concepts and a rudimentary comprehension of Flex policies and procedures.

Responsibilities

• Work with a matrixed, cross functional team of technical experts within Flex organization, extending and building new resources/ capabilities to incorporate into the Flex knowledge base.
• Drive toward creative, robust, and effective solutions that meet customer requirements.
• Hold up engineering team with prototyping, product build, bring up, test, documentation, and successful release to manufacturing.
• Contribute with a cross functional team to develop technically robust and effective solutions to a wide variety of design problems.
• Manage design parameters and design tradeoff priorities in close coordination with other team members.
• Help develop best practices, identify equipment, and material needs with members of the team.
• Ability to resolve, define and design the system and subsystems approaches to meet project and program design goals, requirements and schedules.
• Identify standard products and sub-blocks for inclusion into solution proposals.
• Develop key relationships with internal design teams as well subcontractors to plan comprehensive product strategies based on future technologies.
• Strives for improvements and efficiencies in Engineering area.
• Monitors KPIs for engineering processes.
• Maintains up-to-date knowledge of technical development and trends in the field of expertise.

Benefits

• Full range of medical, dental, and vision plans
• Life Insurance
• Short-term and Long-term Disability
• Matching 401(k) Contributions
• Vacation and Paid Sick Time
• Tuition Reimbursement

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees