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Job Description

An employer is seeking a highly skilled Mechanical Test Technician to join one of our largest national manufacturing clients for an on site contract-to-hire opportunity. In this role you’ll join a growing team and work to manage maintenance and materials for their FDM and SLA 3D printers. In this role you’ll spend 100% of your time in their lab and will also work to create test fixtures and prototypes so their products can be tested from a mechanical perspective. This site manufactures HVAC and smart home devices like thermostats, humidifiers and ducts to name a few, and you’ll manage the queue of the 3D printer to create the prototypes used to mechanically test these HVAC products.

In order to be successful on this team you don’t necessarily have to have specific 3D printing maintenance or material experience but should be mechanically inclined and have experience doing general machines on machines such as cars, CNC machines or heavier equipment, and be confident stepping in and learning a new machine. This role does not require a college degree, but a 2-year tech degree is preferred. This is a 9-month contract-to-hire opportunity with the potential to convert to a permanent employee after the initial contract duration.

In this role you’ll be required to go on site 5 days/week at their Golden Valley location in order to access their equipment and their lab, therefore you must be comfortable with this on site requirement and with commuting to Golden Valley.

JOB DUTIES:

• Work safely and maintain a safe work area in accordance with company policies and procedures.

• Operate and maintain laboratory 3D printers, including consumable material management, maintaining print request queues, and assisting engineering with part layout.

• Participates in product development team meetings.

• Collaborates and supports engineering staff.

• Specifies, initiates, and coordinates acquisition of new product development materials and equipment as needed.

• May perform other duties as required.

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Skills and Requirements

• 3+ years' work experience in related field

• 2 year technical or associates degree in a related field, or equivalent experience

• Ability to demonstrate basic knowledge of measuring/inspection instruments, fabrication methods, and mechanical/electrical principles, properties, and theories

• Familiar working in laboratory and machine shop environments

• Experience performing tasks in a laboratory or shop setting to assist new product development with testing, fixture development, and prototype fabrication.

• Experience understanding and interpreting engineering drawings, schematics, technical reports, work instructions, equipment operation and maintenance instructions.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office products (Excel, Word, Outlook) required

• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of complex variables in situations where only limited standardization exists

• Strong verbal and written communication skills in order to listen and speak effectively before groups of employees in the organization

• Ability to multi-task effectively in a fast-paced team environment • Ability to independently manage workloads from design engineers and comfortable in conflicting priorities

• Proven 3D printing experience, preferably with FDM and SLA printers

• Experience utilizing CAD software, preferably CREO, to create and review 3D models and drawings

• Familiarity conducting and running industry-standard electrical transient tests such as ESD, lightning, oscillatory and EMC