Electronic Component Engineering Specialist

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Job Description:

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Role Definition
Design, development and testing of electrical and/or electronic components for use within machines and engine systems.

Responsibilities
• Overseeing compliance with development processes and regulations for electrical and electronic systems and components.
• Investigating and troubleshooting all technical issues related to electrical and electronic systems and components.
• Managing and negotiating with electrical and electronic equipment vendors for the development of systems and components.
• Mentoring craftsmen, technicians and engineers in the development of electrical and electronic systems and components.
• Requires a degree in an accredited Engineering, Computer Science, or Materials Science curriculum.

Degree Requirement
Degree required

Skill Descriptors
Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Reviews others' writing or presentations and provides feedback and coaching.
• Adapts documents and presentations for the intended audience.
• Demonstrates both empathy and assertiveness when communicating a need or defending a position.
• Communicates well downward, upward, and outward.
• Employs appropriate methods of persuasion when soliciting agreement.
• Maintains focus on the topic at hand.

Relationship Management: Knowledge of relationship management techniques; ability to establish and maintain healthy working relationships with clients, vendors, and peers.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Provides prompt and effective responses to client requests and interactions.
• Monitors client satisfaction levels on a regular basis.
• Alerts own team to problems in client satisfaction.
• Differentiates the roles and responsibilities in a business relationship.
• Works with clients to address critical issues and resolve major problems.

Technical Excellence: Knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges.
Level Expert:
• Fosters an environment that encourages, supports and rewards technical excellence.
• Provides recognized technical leadership to an organization that includes vision, innovation, superior technical competence and the desire to excel.
• Provides highly effective solutions to very complex technical challenges, applying outstanding technical competence to understand and resolve issues.
• Champions the use of new innovations and technologies that solve technical business problems.
• Consistently applies the latest developments, practices and technologies to resolve complex technical challenges in one's general area of competence.
• Develops organizational policies, best practices and management methods that are highly conducive to technical excellence.

Electronics Engineering - HTH: Knowledge of electronics engineering; ability to design, test and manufacture electronic circuits, components and devices.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Trains others on designing complex integrated circuits.
• Anticipates the challenges and opportunities associated with creating printed circuit boards.
• Interprets alternative interfaces between hardware and software and associated requirements and considerations.
• Advises on matching methodology, materials and tools to the electronic product that is being built.
• Consults on engineering multiple electronic circuits, components or devices.
• Evaluates the benefits and drawbacks of analog and digital circuits.

Product Design - HTH: Knowledge of and the ability to utilize design tools (e.g. CAD) to convert customer and market requirements into a product design.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Monitors each phase of the design procedure to ensure overall operation meets standards.
• Trains others on major processes of product design; directs the conception of each component.
• Advises others on the development of multiple products and their architectures.
• Delivers improvement plans to senior management and compares the outcome of the design against the architecture.
• Evaluates feedback from customers and consults on functional weaknesses.
• Controls design and development costs of a proposed product through effective resource coordination.

Reliability Management - HTH: Knowledge of reliability management; ability to utilize various tools, techniques, methodologies and metrics to meet and manage hardware product performance and reliability objectives.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Directs the collection of information on product failures and uses this information to redesign or enhance products.
• Designs evaluation metrics to assess reliability improvement plans and programs for hardware products.
• Guides others in product redesign and feature changes to improve product performance and reliability.
• Consults on the definition of success for hardware products and reliability tests.
• Applies probability and statistical measures to assess products, estimate and monitor reliability.
• Monitors standard operations in hardware product reliability QA programs.

Mechanical Engineering - MFG: Knowledge of mechanical engineering processes, techniques and methods; ability to design and implement machines and other mechanical devices that safely realize a desired objective or invention.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Trains others on most components of mechanical engineering related to manufacturing.
• Works with various complex mechanical engineering operations in a manufacturing environment.
• Determines the action plan of installation, testing and maintenance solutions for mechanical systems.
• Evaluates the performance of mechanical operations; finds opportunities to make improvements.
• Contacts equipment vendors to arrange regular maintenance and technical support services for machines, devices and instruments.
• Builds an integration solution for all mechanical systems and processes for a manufacturing organization.

Troubleshooting Technical Problems: Knowledge of troubleshooting approaches, tools and techniques; ability to anticipate, detect and resolve technical problems in a manufacturing and product development environment.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Evaluates business impact of failure and the criticality and timing of needed resolution.
• Resolves difficult or high-impact equipment and systems problems.
• Monitors machine performance and history; addresses excessive maintenance or repair needs.
• Coaches others how to resolve integration or communications problems in multi-vendor environment.
• Applies specific techniques for isolating a problem and defining resolution approach.
• Uses advanced diagnostic techniques and tools for unusual or performance-related problems.

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