Soldering Technician

Key Responsibilities

• Repairing circuit boards.
• Cutting components to fit the board.
• Testing finished boards to check functionality.
• Following technical drawings carefully.
• Maintaining stock levels using a computerized system to ensure all needed equipment and materials are available.
• Melts and applies solder along adjoining edges of workpieces to solder joints, using a soldering iron.
• Grinds, cuts, buffs, or bends edges of workpieces to be joined to ensure a snug fit, using a power grinder and hand tools.
• Removes workpieces from molten solder and holds parts together until color indicates that solder has set.
• Cleans workpieces, using a chemical solution, file, wire brush, or grinder.
• Cleans the tip of the soldering iron, using the chemical solution or cleaning compound.
• Melts and separates soldered joints to repair misaligned or damaged assemblies, using soldering equipment.
• Applies flux to workpiece surfaces in preparation for soldering.
• Dips workpieces into molten solder or places solder strip between seams and heats seam with iron to band items together.
• Aligns and clamps workpieces together, using rule, square, or hand tools, or positions items in fixtures, jigs, or vise.
• Melts and applies solder to fill holes, indentations, and seams of fabricated metal products, using soldering equipment.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Basic computer skills (used to log time, retrieve documents, and enter data)
• Excellent tactile proficiency with small components
• Ability to understand assembly drawings, simple math, and tolerances
• Ability to maintain consistently high quality while performing repetitive operations
• Accurate and detail-oriented
• Ability to work closely with process and applications engineers to determine the manufacturability and consistency of newly introduced products or samples
• Quality conscious
• Ability to effectively communicate in English (with English reading comprehension)
• Ability to clearly distinguish color as established by the Ishihara color blindness test

Qualifications

• Active Listening
• Social perceptiveness
• Monitoring
• Critical Thinking
• Learning Strategies
• Foreign Language
• Engineering and Technology coordination
• Speaking
• Writing
• Computers and electronics
• Production and processing