Occupation Atlasprinted circuit board test technician
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/2555a1bc-9f30-4371-9499-64793e48cd55
printed circuit board test technician
Printed circuit board test technicians inspect and test printed circuit boards. They perform a range of printed circuit board testing procedures and may perform minor repairs.
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Typically associated skills
Essential (26)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- abide by regulations on banned materials
- check for solder defects
- communicate test results to other departments
- electronic equipment standards
- electronics
- ensure conformity to specifications
- ensure material compliance
- in-circuit test
- inspect quality of products
- instrument performance elements
- integrated circuits
- interpret circuit diagrams
- measure electrical characteristics
- meet deadlines
- perform in-circuit test
- perform test run
- printed circuit boards
- printed circuit boards testing methods
- process customer requests based on the REACh Regulation 1907 2006
- quality assurance procedures
- read assembly drawings
- read standard blueprints
- report defective manufacturing materials
- send faulty equipment back to assembly line
- test printed circuit boards
- troubleshoot
Optional (22)
- IPC standards
- apply soldering techniques
- apply technical communication skills
- automated optical inspection
- hardware testing methods
- keep records of work progress
- liaise with engineers
- maintain test equipment
- microelectronics
- monitor machine operations
- operate automated optical inspection machine
- quality standards
- remove defective products
- research equipment needs
- resolve equipment malfunctions
- semiconductors
- surface-mount technology
- test hardware
- through-hole technology
- waste removal regulations
- write inspection reports
- write records for repairs
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