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    Electronics Technicians - Waterloo, Canada - University of Waterloo

    University of Waterloo
    University of Waterloo Waterloo, Canada

    5 days ago

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    Description

    Overview

    The Faculty of Science supports an innovative research and teaching enterprise through technical facilities such as Science Technical Services (STS). STS department is comprised of, an electronic shop, machine shop and vacuum pump shop. STS is a critical organization for the Faculty of Science with inhouse expertise to design, fabricate and repair parts and equipment for research and teaching. The responsibilities of the Electronics Technician include client consultation, job estimation, technical support, design, fabrication, construction, and service of various scientific instruments.

    Responsibilities

  • Interact with faculty, students, and staff from a wide variety of backgrounds and provide technical consultation to them. Diagnosing and debugging problems with experiments, suggesting ideas to improve teaching, research labs set-ups, and enhance the data quality is also an important goal. Often teaching and demonstrating the electrical/electronic and mechanical concepts is necessary.
  • Design, construct, test and service specialized research and teaching instrumentation including analog, digital electronics, and interfacing. Design and construction will comprise low-noise preamplifiers for various probes, sensors and detectors, high-speed amplifiers, signal generators of various shapes and frequency, power supplies, motion, temperature, or pressure controllers, etc.
  • Support CSA certification of custom build electronics and electrical equipment.
  • Use specialized software such as AUTOCAD or Electronic CAD packages during design phase and PCB software (Printed Circuit Board) to prepare component layout. Use dedicated programming software to operate precision CNC Mill to produce the boards.
  • Demonstrate mechanical dexterity to build enclosures, packaging, shielding, etc. Proficiency in using variety of small tools.
  • Work in team environment on large projects involving both electronic and machining group.
  • Test and service specialized research and teaching instrumentation including analog, digital electronics, and interfacing.
  • Foster a team environment via encouraging colleagues to contribute ideas and collaborate on new and complex projects.
  • Makes recommendations for continuous improvement through enhanced methods, specialized equipment, and tooling.
  • Assist client in purchases of electronics parts from electronics store.
  • Oversees parts inventory, order parts that are low in inventory.
  • Maintaining order of the workstation, shop, and storeroom

    • Qualifications

  • A diploma in Electronics Engineering Technology or Equivalent.
  • 5 years of experience required.
  • Expertise in electronics: analog and digital knowledge
  • Experience in working with different measurement instruments.
  • Experience with hardware design procedures and software packages related to the area of specialization
  • Proficiency in design, schematic capture, simulation, and layout of electronics
  • Knowledge of computer interfacing with measurements instrumentation is required.
  • Strong organizational, problem-solving, and analytical skills are essential.
  • High-speed digital circuit design
  • Analog circuit design
  • Designing and implementing electronics hardware system
  • Ability to design, analyze and, solder PCBs.
  • Assemble and test prototype.
  • CSA evaluation
  • Real-world hands-on troubleshooting with electronics and mechanical assemblies
  • Excellent time management skills with the ability to efficiently balance competing priorities.
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a team. Willingness to take initiative to improve processes.
  • Effective communication skills
  • Familiar with various communication protocols such as Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C), Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI), Universal Serial Bus (USB), Universal asynchronous receiver-transmitter (UART)
  • Radio Frequency experience, including matching, Low Noise Amplifier (LNA), and Mixer
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