Description
Directly supervise and coordinate electronic maintenance, repair, and calibration activities of technicians and installers working on electronic systems and equipment. May advise customers or end users on recommended services and upgrades. Excludes team or work leaders.
- • Determine schedules, sequences, and assignments for electronic maintenance, calibration, and repair based on priorities, asset criticality, and technician skills.
- • Monitor technicians' work levels, quality, and adherence to ESD and safety procedures; review performance.
- • Inspect electronic systems, instruments, or assemblies to determine required installations, services, or repairs.
- • Participate in budget preparation and administration; coordinate purchasing and monitor electronic maintenance expenditures.
- • Counsel employees on work issues and close skill gaps in electronic troubleshooting and soldering.
- • Requisition parts and supplies such as PCBs, components, connectors, test leads, and ESD-safe tools.
- • Compute estimates and actual costs for labor, parts, calibration services, and outside vendors.
- • Interpret schematics, wiring diagrams, datasheets, and job orders; lay out test points and references for technicians.
- • Provide or arrange training in ESD control, lockout/tagout, diagnostic techniques, instrument use, and maintenance procedures.
- • Investigate equipment failures, incidents, or injuries and prepare reports with root cause and corrective actions.
- • Confer with management, engineering, production, IT, quality, customers, or OEM reps to coordinate work and resolve issues.
- • Recommend or initiate personnel actions, including hires, promotions, transfers, discharges, or discipline.
- • Perform advanced electronic repair, rework, or calibration using soldering stations, oscilloscopes, multimeters, and signal generators.
- • Compile and maintain CMMS records, including work orders, asset histories, calibration certificates, and inventory data.
- • Develop, implement, and evaluate preventive and predictive maintenance policies and procedures for electronic assets.
- • Inspect, test, and measure completed work with meters, oscilloscopes, analyzers, or software to verify conformance.
- • Meet with vendors and suppliers to review products, test equipment, and services used in electronic maintenance.
- • Develop or administer CMMS, electronic maintenance programs, or computer information management systems.
- • Design or modify equipment layouts, test fixtures, or control panel configurations to meet operational needs.
- • Monitor inventories of spare boards, components, firmware, and calibrated test equipment; maintain shop conditions and ESD controls.
- • Inspect and monitor work areas, tools, and equipment; provide safety training to prevent and correct unsafe or noncompliant conditions.
- • Review, evaluate, and coordinate completion of contractor bids for electronic repair, calibration, or installation.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
