R&D Senior Engineering Technician

Hach•Loveland, CO

1d•$75,000 - $98,000•Onsite

About The Position

Imagine yourself… Growing your expertise and expanding your skillset with every project. Thriving in a supportive team environment that inspires you to strive for excellence. At Hach (www.hach.com), a Veralto company, we ensure water quality for people around the world, and every team member plays a vital role in that mission. Our founding vision is to make water analysis better—faster, simpler, greener, and more informative. We accomplish this through teamwork, customer partnerships, passionate experts, and reliable, easy-to-use solutions. As part of our team and the broader Veralto network, you’ll be part of a unique work environment where purpose meets possibility: where you’ll make an immediate, measurable impact on a global scale by enabling the world’s everyday water needs, and where you’ll have opportunities to foster your professional development and fuel your career growth. Motivated by the highest possible stakes in climate change and global health, we’re working together within a rapidly digitizing industry to find innovative technologies that guarantee the safety of our water and our environment. More about us: https://www.hach.com/about-us We are hiring an R&D Engineering Technician position that will be focused on the assembly, test, and troubleshooting of electrical, mechanical, and optical systems for newly developed Hach products. This position is instrumental in supporting our Research & Development teams as they develop new products from prototype phase to production. Reporting to the R&D Manager, this role will be onsite (5 days/week) in our Loveland, CO headquarters. What you’ll love: Large 3 building campus which includes a new building designed from the ground up for Research and Development. Work environment like a college senior design project on steroids – we work in close-knit collaborative teams comprised of nearly all engineering disciplines. We keep many things in house (10m EMC chamber, HALT chamber, PCBA/SMT line, injection molding, fabrication, production/manufacturing, etc.) Being a part of Veralto – providing many career growth opportunities worldwide. We are a leader in the industry of water quality which continues to grow in worldwide importance.

Requirements

A.A.S. in MET/EET or equivalent experience, and 5+ years in electro‑mechanical hardware development or product realization.
Proven SMT (fine-pitch) and through‑hole soldering capability; confident microscope work on dense PCBAs.
Proficient with common troubleshooting tools (i.e., oscilloscopes, multimeters, microscopes, thermal cameras)
Safe, precise use of hand/power tools (i.e., wrenches, screwdrivers, power drills)

Nice To Haves

Environmental chamber testing
Installation, alignment, and integration of optics/electro-optics
Optical metrology equipment (i.e., beam profilers, spectrophotometers, power meters)
LabVIEW Programming
Electrical or mechanical design experience, particularly circuit board design experience

Responsibilities

Perform electrical, mechanical, and optical assembly of product prototypes
Perform fine‑pitch SMT and through‑hole soldering (including very small components) and board‑level rework/repair.
Assist in product testing.
Set up and run functional, environmental, and reliability tests (e.g., HALT); fabricate simple test fixtures and jigs as needed.
Fabricate design verification and production test fixturing.
Perform board level repair and troubleshooting as needed, you may Interpret complex technical schematics; flag mismatches and drive corrections with design engineers.
Build and test multi‑wire cable harnesses; contribute to interface documentation and verification testing.
Use common diagnostic equipment (oscilloscopes, multimeters, logic analyzers, thermal/optical tools) to isolate issues and validate fixes.
Partner closely with cross‑functional engineers; provide feedback on work instructions and build procedures to improve repeatability and quality.