Design Technician III

Mounds View, MN 55112

Posted: 08/12/2025 Employment Type: Contract Job Category: Engineering Job Number: 621427 Is job remote?: No Country: United States

Job Description

  1. Can you please confirm your top 3 skills sets required?
    1. Soldering small gauge wires/connectors
    2. Cable construction
    3. Light assembly work
  2. Can you please confirm the 3 main responsibilities/day to day activities required for this role?
    1. General technician assistance relative to program/engineer objectives
    2. Prototype as necessary
    3. Test Fixture Build/Assembly

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Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.
  • Designs, builds and assembles components or portions of systems and modifies existing designs to develop or improve products and facilitate manufacturing and field service operations.  Work would be electro-mechanical in nature and require an appreciation for PCB board modification, assembly and debug.  Additionally, this role involves supporting the broader design as well, including cable manufacturing and mechanical assembly/disassembly.
  • Utilizes computer-aided design equipment and/or graphic tools, such as CAD, CAM, CATIA, ProEngineer, Solidworx or Siemens NX Software.
  • Gathers information, makes studies, computes calculations, and prepares original rough layouts, sketches to present design proposal.
  • Coordinates design criteria with engineering, manufacturing, tooling, material, and planning group such as ease of manufacture, availability of materials, and contractual specifications.

TECHNICIAN SUPPORT CAREER STREAM:

Provides technical support in areas such as production, operations, maintenance, safety, testing, process improvement or product development. Uses schematics, diagrams, written and verbal descriptions or defined plans to perform testing and troubleshooting on electronic or mechanical components, equipment or systems. Gathers, maintains, formats, compiles, and manipulates technical data using established formulae and procedures, and performs detailed mathematical calculations. For higher levels, may suggest and/or make improvements to optimize work processes.

DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS:

Autonomy: Seasoned individual contributor, working under limited supervision, and providing assistance and training to lower level employees. Runs minor projects, including performing tests, interpreting data, developing reports.

Organizational Impact: Performs technical activities requiring considerable judgment and may have ownership of minor projects. Work consists of technical tasks that are typically not routine. Innovation and Complexity: Technical problems faced are general, and may require some analysis to understand and resolve. Expected to independently propose solutions to problems for supervisor review.

Communication and Influence: Communicates typically with internal contacts . Obtains and provides technical information on matters of moderate importance to the job area.

Leadership and Talent Management: Responsible for providing guidance, coaching and training to other employees within job area.

Required Knowledge and Experience: Requires complete and broad knowledge of operational systems, techniques and practices typically gained through extensive experience and/or education. Requires minimum of 4 years of relevant experience; may require vocational or technical education or certification in addition to prior work experience.
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