Test Technician

Flex • Austin, TX

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About The Position

Flex is a diversified manufacturing partner that helps market-leading brands design, build, and deliver innovative products. A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment. The Test Technician role involves developing, maintaining, and improving test and burn-in processes, ensuring safety, reviewing quality yields, assisting with new equipment and product introductions, coordinating maintenance, and providing first-line support for workstation and line issues.

Requirements

• Minimum of an Associates degree, military technical training or equivalent experience and training.
• Minimum of 4 years of related experience.
• Demonstrates advanced technical skills which may be used to conduct on-the-job training and/or lead/guide other employees.
• Highly skilled with ability to move between shifts/ product lines.
• Demonstrates broad knowledge of functional techniques and has input to process improvement.
• Has awareness of and may apply new technologies.
• Ability to read complicated drawings, mathematics, handbook formulas and a variety of testing and measuring instruments.
• Must have an understanding of manufacturing functions and the ability to train others.
• Able to read, comprehend and interpret complex instructions.
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to other employees, leads, manufacturing support and supervisors of the organization.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Responsibilities

• Develops, maintains and improves all test and burn-in processes within area of responsibility.
• Periodically reviews all process specifications to determine if it accurately reflect the process requirements and test techniques.
• Updates the specifications as required.
• Ensures that test and burn-in processes are within all safety specifications.
• Consistently reviews quality yields and develops corrective actions to eliminate any yield detractors, further improves the process reliability.
• Assists with the fabrication and development of new equipment, fixtures and test programs (where applicable).
• Ensures that effective preventive maintenance, diagnostics, and daily measurement schedules are in place for each test and burn-in process.
• Coordinates preventive maintenance activities.
• Ensures that scheduled preventive maintenance activities are completed according to the specified schedule.
• Assists engineering and the development labs with all new product introduction and development.
• Coordinates and monitors all FIMPA or product off-load activities for assigned test and burn-in processes.
• Ensures that each test and burn-in process has a training/certification package for both manufacturing and maintenance.
• Facilitates the completion of these training/certification packages with the appropriate engineer(s) and the Resource Development Department.
• Partners with Industrial Engineering on all equipment moves or line re-arrangements as required.
• Drives recovery actions/repair of any test or burn-in process that is down.
• Coordinates recovery/repair activities with the respective maintenance, technicians, engineers, suppliers or maintenance spare parts analyzers whose area of competence is necessary to get the process back in working order.
• Assists test engineers in development of disaster recovery plans for each test and burn-in process within the area of responsibility.
• Follows Engineering test processes.
• Ability to perform high-level repair, format and "build" software per unit configuration and connect hardware (cables) between multiple units.
• Configures/flashes firmware on Sub-assemblies and connects Ethernet connections between unit(s).
• Understands the basics of Disk Arrays and set up for Disk Arrays.
• Troubleshoots/debugs at multiple system levels.
• Ability to determine workmanship errors and drive back through quality.
• Performs module verification.
• Be able to troubleshoot wiring of units using schematic diagram and assembly process.
• First line support for workstation and line issues.
• Log and fail defects of units and parts that are defective and address trending failures.

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: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree