Title: Electronics Lab Technician
Location: Plymouth, MI
Duration: Long Term Contract
Education: AS degree or certification preferred, but not required
Experience: Minimum 2-3 years of experience in automotive development or laboratory work
Experience in automotive electronics specifically exterior Lighting Lamps
Experience with validation and testing equipment.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Support Electrical Engineers on project bench/lab testing of Exterior Lighting Lamps by running defined tests and lead debug/trouble shooting activities.
- Support electrical testing with hardware modifications – solder/desolder components and conduct testing boards with new components to identify electrical performance changes.
- Review and understand test specifications to ensure component testing to meet test specification needs and performance as per engineer’s direction
- Able to use dataloggers for voltage/current/temperature (Graphtex) to record data for test conditions and plot out data and present findings.
- Able to program and run thermal ovens for thermal testing of electrical lamps/modules and acquire data external to chamber with data logger.
- Help maintain laboratory workspace. Organize lab supplies and equipment. Assist in calibration and correlation studies. Develop new methods for more efficient testing and analysis.
- Knowledge of CAN/LIN for flashing modules and changing parameters for evaluation of parameter changes and their effect on lamp performance.
- Help engineers to create wire harnesses, solder, desolder, assemble lamps, inspect parts, ship parts, attach/make themocouples and modify electronics as directed.
- Able to fabricate test boxes with creation of BOM and order components
- Lead building of bread boards, test setups, lamps, hardware and fitting them with harnesses and thermocouples to record data.
- Able to help on EMC noise analysis in a small EMC benchtop chamber.
Skills:
- Understands CAN and LIN flashing and pulling LIN/CAN data from modules or lamps
- Must have strong PC computer skills.
- Able to read schematics and diagnose electrical failures
- Strong skills with Oscopes, Spectrum Analyzer, Basic EMC testing at bench level
- Must have good communication skills and work well with people
- Must be able to learn quickly and communicate ideas to peers and management.
Tata Technologies is a company dedicated to bringing better products to market for our customers and to the millions of people around the world who benefit from them. We are a leading Global provider of engineering services, serving the world’s leading manufacturing companies. We offer a complete benefits package, including; medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, FMLA and 401K.
We are currently expanding our Engineering footprint with several of our clients and have opportunities for those who are the best in their field. If you are looking to join a company that values their employees, stands behind their services and strives to make product development dreams a reality, look no further.
Tata Technologies Inc. is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, marital status, national origin, sexual orientation, citizenship status, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, compensation, benefits, training, termination, promotions, or any other condition of employment or career development.
