Engineering Aide 3
Chillicothe, IL
12 months
Job Description
Summary: The main function of the engineering aide is to support engineering projects by adapting and applying engineering techniques, conducting tests and inspections, and preparing reports and calculations.
Job Responsibilities:
- Determine engineering requirements by conducting inspections and analytical tests, analyzing and synthesizing data, maintaining control charts, determining root causes, and preparing bid specifications.
- Resolve engineering problems by collecting analyzing information, researching, analyzing, adapting, and modifying engineering techniques.
- Recommend solutions and prepare drawings, schematics, and diagrams. Build harnesses and perform light fabrication builds to support implementation of drawings, schematics and diagrams.
- Meet cost standards by preparing cost-benefit analyses, and track and report expenses.
- Maintain and improve quality results by completing quality assurance tests, following standards, studying, evaluating, and re-designing processes, and implementing changes.
- Collect and enter data, generate reports and presentations, and summarize data and trends.
Skills:
- Creativity, verbal and written communication skills, analytical and problem solving ability.
- Team player and detail oriented.
- Basic ability to make sketches, engineering drawings and common computations.
- Basic ability to perform details calculations to compute and establish manufacturing, construction and installation standards and specifications.
- Basic knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology.
- Previous experience with computer applications and design software related to engineering field.
Education/Experience:
- Associate’s degree in engineering technology or related field that provided skillsets is required.
Position’s Contributions to Work Group:
- The Engineering Aide is critical support staff for the engineers. Provides validation test support, hands on fabrication capabilities, setup / execution of functional tests, field return issue investigation, data entry and other tasks that help overall team efficiency and critical data to make decisions.
Reason/motivation for request:
- Engineers are often time investing too much time on fabrication, setup and low level tasks where their skillsets could be more efficiently utilized to move projects forward.
Why Client?
Client designs and produces a diverse product set from hard iron to some of the best autonomous technology in the industry.
Why this Role?
As an engineering aide within Client, you can get exposed to some exciting projects and work with some highly skilled people in a positive team based atmosphere.
Typical task breakdown:
- Normal day will involve being in the lab to support environmental testing, light frabrication or doing other work to support the best operation of the lab and the program that the engineering aide is assigned to.
Interaction with team:
- Interaction will occur through formal established team meetings or direct engagement while in the lab.
Team Structure
- Teams are setup according to product lines
- Platform Lead is product / team responsible, Technical Lead is technology direction and delivery responsible, Support Engineers / Engineering Aides provide support to deliver on the product.
Work environment:
- Seat will be in an office adjacent to lab environment.
Education & Experience Required:
- Years of experience: 2+
- Degree requirement: Associate’s degree in engineering technology or related field that provided skillsets is required.
- Do you accept internships as job experience: Yes
Top 3 Skills
- Attitude, motivated individual
- Ability to hand fabricate harnesses
- Ability to read schematics, diagrams and do work based off of this input.
Additional Technical Skills
(Required)
- Ability to follow provided test plans for environmental tests: thermal chambers, pressure vessels, vibration tables, etc… Plus if candidate can take on ownership of creating environmental test plans with engineering review.
- Ability to document tests results in Microsoft Word, Excel or other documentation method for communication / review by engineering team.
- Ability to listen to work requests and work priorities based on multiple engineers making request, communicating sequence and timing to confirm acceptance and priority set properly
- Ability to create harnesses based on documentation (schematics for example) from engineers. Ability to create harnesses with minimal engineering input is beneficial.
- Ability to use standard hand tools for mechanical assembly or disassembly of mechanical and electrical assemblies
- Light fabrication capabilities with sheet metal or other methods of assembling / solving a problem is desired.
(Desired)
- Past experience with thermal couple instrumentation, bonus if it was related to thermal evaluation of electronic assemblies.
- Willingness to learn or already has PCB smt solder skillsets
- Willingness to learn domestic and international shipping regulations and work within the organization and with the team to accomplish shipping needs
- Willingness to learn procurement systems to purchase lab needs, either buying miscellaneous hand tools or consumables, to ordering rental equipment for the team.
Soft Skills
(Required)
- Organized individual when it comes to their desk, lab and computer documents
- Self-initiative is desired, someone who will seek out work to fill time if work demands are low, there are typically plenty of things to get done in the lab
(Desired)
- Willingness to learn and conduct performance tests of electrical components under direction of engineers for functional verification of field returns or post test capability review. This may require advanced capabilities leveraging Client and potential third party software tools and test setups.