Sr Technician, R&D

Coordinate R&D activities to ensure materials, documents, and processes are compliant with the established company practices and procedures. Perform the work in leadership position under moderate supervision from R&D engineering staff. Build complex prototypes from verbal instructions and/or simple drawings and perform testing and documentation duties with moderate supervision. Job duties:

• Provide work direction to and monitor performance of R&D assemblers and technicians in team.
• Assist engineering staff to complete R&D plan by scheduling and assigning personnel; establishing priorities; monitoring progress; and resolving problems.
• Give feedback and input on technicians’ and assemblers’ performance.
• Assist engineering staff with prototype and test build flow and organization of the technician and assembler team.
• Maintain safe and clean work environment by educating and directing personnel on the use of equipment/resources and maintaining compliance with established policies and procedures.
• Fabricate complex prototypes, manufacturing processes, and fixtures.
• Responsible for learning and maintaining knowledge and skills to perform majority of the manufacturing processes successfully.
• Perform technician and assembler responsibilities as necessary.
• Provide input into product design, processes, and testing.
• Set up, adjust, and operate laboratory equipment and instruments.
• Contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
• Set up and conduct tests of completed units or components under operational conditions to investigate designs or to obtain data for development and standardization.
• Record test procedures and results.
• Perform additional duties as assigned.