Laboratory Technician - Industrial Equipment & Automation Division

ITW • Appleton, WI

20h • Onsite

About The Position

The Industrial Equipment Engineering team is seeking a Lab Technician, who will play a key role in the support and development of our products. The successful candidate will work closely with engineers, lab technicians, and production personnel, to test, validate, and troubleshoot various power sources. He or she will perform required lab tests and maintain all applicable documentation related to Engineering, Reliability and Third Party testing. Ability to diagnose and correct issues arising in released product and prototypes is expected. They will also occasionally work with manufacturing to assist with solving problems related to production of existing products, and with service related issues.

Requirements

• Two-year technical degree in electronics, electro-mechanical or related field
• Understand power source phase control and inverter topologies.
• Team player with a positive attitude, high motivation and excellent interpersonal skills who works well in a business unit team environment with minimum supervision.
• A good understanding of Microsoft Word, Excel, Macola and ability to write accurate and concise reports is required.

Nice To Haves

• Minimum of 2 years’ experience in engineering product development and/or support
• Knowledge of IEC and CSA certification requirements and hands-on experience with IEC and CSA testing and technical report preparation.
• Knowledge of Induction Heating
• Knowledge or experience with various welding processes

Responsibilities

• Ability to read and understand schematics and wiring diagrams
• Run engineering tests (heat tests, VA curves, abnormal tests, third party certification testing, new design verification testing)
• The ability to diagnose and correct issues arising in units from production, lab and reliability tests required.
• Work with production, service, engineering, and marketing to solve field issues related to reliability and customer satisfaction
• Conduct CSA, CAN/CSA-E60974, CE, etc. tests and work with the Third-Party Coordinator to construct, create and or modify third party reports
• Assistance with maintaining the lab area and improvements to the lab

Benefits

• 401(k) match PLUS an additional retirement contribution
• 11 paid holidays
• 5 sick days
• vacation time
• Company-Paid Insurance – Life, AD&D, Short-Term & Long-Term Disability insurance
• 4 weeks of paid parental leave
• adoption reimbursement
• tuition reimbursement

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree