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Georgia-Pacific is recruiting for an electronics technician role at our Neenah Technical Center (NTC). NTC, located in Neenah, WI, is the site for research, development, and lab services for Georgia-Pacific's North American Consumer Products business. Our consumer brands are household names throughout North America which include Quilted Northern and Angel Soft bath tissue, Brawny paper towels, Dixie plates and bowls. We also produce Professional brands such as enMotion towels and dispensers and SmartStock cutlery dispensers for commercial markets. Many of the store-brands at your favorite retailers are our products too!
This individual will manage our labs and become an internal expert in our commercialization test processes within the devices team. This individual will also take on a broad range of responsibilities in a hands-on role working with embedded systems. This can include circuit board troubleshooting or rework, wire harness fabrication, and working with a variety of mechanical parts and assemblies.
A "day in the life" may include reworking fine-pitch parts on prototype circuit boards, diagnosing failed parts, develop automated tests, or specify and acquire lab equipment as needed. There is also the opportunity to lead the fabrication and assembly process for new prototype builds that come up.
What You Will Do
Innovation: Use your creativity to develop test plans and design automated testing fixtures
Technical Support: Assist quality group with deeper technical fault investigation and testing of returned parts, including warranty database entry. Primary person responsible for engineering and test labs (layout, day-to-day usage, cleanliness, and safety). Responsible for maintaining storage areas and items being sent to warehousing as well as preparing and packing items for shipping with our shipping department.
Collaboration: Work with engineering to fabricate and assemble new one-off prototypes, fabricate wire harnesses, or modify circuit boards which may have fine-pitch SMD components. You would also collaborate with engineering to specify and order equipment or tools as well as maintain stock of common parts inventory when the needs arise.
Entrepreneurship: Take ownership of test and troubleshooting processes or solutions. This may include developing fixtures for automating certain tests.
Leadership: Organize and lead the assembly process of up to 50 prototypes at a time to support development programs, including quality checks and functional tests for every unit.
Career Development: You will be working with a lot of technical people and will have the ability to take on new roles as you identify needs within the group where new ideas are always welcome. Your skills and strength can also be matched to other high value projects. You are only limited by your own initiative.
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- Basic electrical knowledge.
- Technical training through school or electrical experience in a troubleshooting or problem-solving role.
- Ability to lift and move 50 lbs. and stand on your feet for extended periods.
- Data entry or analysis skills (converting data into meaningful information via Excel).
- Experience with Microsoft Excel (basic formulas and equation solving).
- Willing to travel up to 10% of the time.
What Will Put You Ahead
- 2-year technical degree in related field.
- Circuit board rework experience.
- Able to read electrical schematics and PCBA layouts.
- Mechanical experience
- Ability to diagnose issues with electrical systems while using various meters, DC power analyzer, oscilloscope, etc.
- Experience with wireless technologies like BLE, WiFi, LoRa, and NFC.
- Experience in a role with minimal supervision and being a motivated self-starter.
- Experience in test development utilizing scripting, Labview, or C#.
- CAM/CAD experience.
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Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
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Equal Opportunities
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