Test Engineering Technician I
About The Position
We are hiring Electronics Technicians across SEL Manufacturing in Pullman, WA and Lewiston, ID. If you have a foundation in electronics and want to grow your skills doing hands-on test and troubleshooting work that directly impacts product quality, these positions might be right for you. Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories exists to make electric power safer, more reliable, and more economical. Our devices must respond to system faults within milliseconds—to ensure safety, avoid damage, and minimize outages. Hundreds of utilities and millions of industrial, commercial, and residential consumers depend on SEL products every day. Our products are industry-leading, and the test infrastructure that verifies them must be as well. Reliability is designed into every SEL product, and Manufacturing is where that design becomes a physical device a customer will depend on for decades. Electronics Technicians sit at the intersection of electronics, instrumentation, troubleshooting, quality, and production. Whether you are performing root cause analysis, troubleshooting test failures to the component level, repairing an automated test station, improving a test script, creating a flying probe test program, or innovating process improvements, your work has a direct impact on our customers, community, and company. The work is broad, hands-on, and directly improves product quality, manufacturing capability, and SEL devices. The specific work varies by role and day, but across these positions you will apply your electronics fundamentals and build deeper expertise as you solve problems that matter. The instruments are modern, the learning is continuous, and the stakes are high. Every defect you catch or root cause you identify protects a customer and the people who depend on their power system. Our manufacturing facilities are US-based, modern, clean, safe, and growing. Electronics Technicians are at the heart of what we do and a vital part of our Test Engineering team. You will see your work move quickly from a problem on the production floor to a better test process, stronger product quality, or a repaired device ready for use. SEL invents, designs, and builds digital products and systems that protect power grids around the world. This technology prevents blackouts and enables customers to improve power system reliability and safety at a reduced cost. A 100 percent employee-owned company headquartered in Pullman, Washington, SEL has manufactured products in the United States since 1984 and now serves customers worldwide. Our mission is simple: to make electric power safer, more reliable, and more economical.
Requirements
- Solid foundation in analog and digital electronics
- Enjoy hands-on troubleshooting, problem solving, and learning by doing
- Want to build deeper expertise in automated test systems, instrumentation, and manufacturing test
- Communicate clearly and work well with operators, technicians, engineers, and production teams
- Want to build things that work and improve processes that matter
Nice To Haves
- Experience troubleshooting electronic assemblies to the component level
- Worked with automated test equipment, flying probe systems, or production test stations
- Exposure to programming, scripting, or test automation
- Experience with manufacturing, repair, or quality improvement work
Responsibilities
- Troubleshoot complex electronic circuits to the component level using schematics, test data, and electronic instrumentation
- Support, maintain, repair, and improve automated electronic test equipment and production test stations
- Develop and refine test methods, techniques, scripts, and programs, including flying probe test programs
- Analyze failures to identify root causes, trends, and opportunities for improvement
- Partner with test operators, test engineers, and R&D teams to support products and test systems
- Continuously identify, measure, and improve processes to make SEL products, test systems, and manufacturing better
Benefits
- Employee Stock Ownership Plan
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
