Product Development Technician

Overview:

Aegis Worldwide is a staffing and recruiting firm that works exclusively on placing roles within the manufacturing and engineering industry. One of our clients in the Lebanon, TN area is hiring for a Product Development Technician (formal title will be Lab Technician) that will be working alongside their engineering team in their new state-of-the-art production development center. This will be a day shift opportunity and requires an associate's degree in engineering, or related field. 

Primary Function

Provide support and input to Engineering team in the evaluation and development of new products. Sheet metal layout and fabrication, welding, soldering, and machining. Will conduct safety and regulatory testing of consumer products.

Responsibilities

• Review project instructions and prints to ascertain test specifications, procedures, objectives, test equipment, nature of technical problem and possible solution.
• Set up, assist and test units per diagrams and instructions to investigate design proposals for improving equipment performance or other factors and to obtain data for development, standardization and quality assurance.
• Observe and record results relevant to testing and evaluation.
• Build prototypes and test equipment per drawings.
• Log and distribute copies of results to Engineering and file.
• Responsible for safe practices and professional appearance of the work area.
• Gain a thorough working knowledge of other ANSI, UL, and EC standards. 
• Properly use and service all lab equipment (both test and prototype development).
• Provide guidance and instruction to other lab techs as needed.
• Develop skills required in model making, sheet metal layout and fabrication, welding, machining, soldering and metal working.
• Conduct test certification program under direction of test agency representative.
• Other responsibilities may be assigned as needed.

Qualifications

• Associate degree in Engineering or related field
• 1+ year of related work experience in providing support and input to Engineering team in the evaluation and development of new products
• Sheet metal layout and fabrication, welding, soldering, and machining. Will conduct safety and regulatory testing of consumer products
• Experience working in a test lab environment and has completed at least one major project from start to finish
• Has learned to use and service most of the lab equipment
• Possesses a working knowledge of all CSA tests, the proper way to conduct those tests, and the proper form for recording the data produced by those tests
• Has a working knowledge of basic algebraic functions and demonstrates same on a daily basis
• Has the ability to budget time and set deadlines for him/herself and demonstrates this ability on a daily basis
• Can act with limited supervision on applying and trouble shooting initial unit set up
• Uses independent decision making and analysis
• Can analyze problems, present solutions and implements decisions
• Easily recognizes when parameters are wrong, indicating that a unit is not functioning properly
• Understands what data needs to be collected, how that data is to be collected, and uses the proper forms for logging the required data.  Understands what the data being recorded means to the performance of the unit under test