Printed circuit board test technician

Also searched as: Técnico de pruebas de placas de circuito impreso

Code 7543.6

What does a Printed circuit board test technician do?

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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Essential skills

Knowledge

  • Ensayos de materiales
  • integrated circuits
  • interpret circuit diagrams
  • electronics
  • instrument performance elements
  • printed circuit boards testing methods
  • electronic equipment standards
  • printed circuit boards
  • quality assurance procedures
  • in-circuit test

Skills and competences

  • ensure material compliance
  • abide by regulations on banned materials
  • check for solder defects
  • send faulty equipment back to assembly line
  • ensure conformity to specifications
  • inspect quality of products
  • read assembly drawings
  • read standard blueprints
  • measure electrical characteristics
  • test printed circuit boards
  • process customer requests based on the REACh Regulation 1907 2006
  • perform in-circuit test
  • troubleshoot
  • perform test run

Transversal competences

  • meet deadlines
  • communicate test results to other departments
  • report defective manufacturing materials

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Sources

This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences