Senior Electronics Technician
Heavily hands-on bench role in a high-performance production environment building complex electronic systems. PCBA repair, rework, fault finding, inspection and production support across advanced electronic products and PCB assemblies.
About the role
Sydney-based engineering company building complex electronic hardware at scale. Hands-on bench role for someone who takes pride in workmanship and enjoys solving complex hardware problems. Strong technical environment with broad exposure across electronics and manufacturing.
Why AEY is running this
Confidential client, multi-mandate AEY engagement.
Process
Two stages - practical bench assessment and a final conversation with production leadership.
Responsibilities
- ▸ Perform electronics debugging, repair, rework and inspection activities.
- ▸ Support production builds, prototyping and product testing.
- ▸ Conduct board-level fault finding and validation.
- ▸ Review supplier quality issues and support incoming quality processes.
- ▸ Prepare NCR and IQC reports following inspection and troubleshooting activities.
- ▸ Raise quality alerts and support corrective actions.
- ▸ Train and mentor junior technicians.
- ▸ Work closely with engineering and production teams to improve quality and throughput.
Requirements
- ▸ 10+ years' experience as an Electronics Technician.
- ▸ IPC 610 certification.
- ▸ Strong fault-finding and troubleshooting capability.
- ▸ PCBA repair and rework; precision soldering and board modifications.
- ▸ Passive components down to 0402 / 0201 size.
- ▸ Active components - QFPs, QFNs, transistors, microchips.
- ▸ Oscilloscopes, VNAs and other electronic test equipment.
- ▸ PCB schematics and layouts; Altium or similar design tools.
- ▸ Highly detail-oriented with strong quality standards.
- ▸ Comfortable working autonomously in a fast-paced production environment.
Bonus
- ▸ RF systems or RF test equipment exposure.
- ▸ CMM or inspection equipment experience.
- ▸ Supplier-quality or manufacturing-quality process exposure.
- ▸ Experience supporting engineering prototype builds.
Tell us what you are looking for.
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