Test Technician (Maintenance)

Job Posting Start Date 01-17-2025 Job Posting End Date 02-21-2025

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A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment. If you are excited about a role but don't meet every bullet point, we encourage you to apply and join us to create the extraordinary.

Job Summary

At Flex, we welcome people of all backgrounds. Our employees thrive here by living our values: we support each other as we strive to find a better way, we move fast with discipline and purpose, and we do the right thing always.

Through a respectful, inclusive and collaborative culture, a career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference, invest in your career growth and join our purpose -- to make great products that create value and improve people's lives.

To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we're looking to add a Test Technician located in Austin, TX.

Reporting to the Operations Supervisor the Test Technician will be responsible for providing leadership and direction to groups of non-exempt employees.

1st Shift: 7am- 3:30 pm Mon-Fri (10%Shift Diff)

What a typical day looks like:

• 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.

​The experience we're looking to add to our team,

• Advanced Excel skill level

• Microsoft Office proficiency

• Electrical Experience

• Familiar Schematics

• Debug

 

Here are a few of our preferred experiences:

• Manufacturing previous experience

 

What you'll receive for the great work you provide:

• 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

Job Category

Production Engineering

Is Sponsorship Available?

No

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