at OTTO Engineering, Inc. in Carpentersville, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Sustaining Electrical Engineer – Communications
OTTO – designed, manufactured and precision tested, right here in the USA.
OTTO’s opportunity:
Our Sustaining Electrical Engineer will support the electrical designs for fielded products at OTTO Engineering. You will be responsible for troubleshooting and implementing resolution for factory and field returns. You will participate in circuit design to modify existing products. You will support the operations team by resolving component obsolescence issues and qualifying production first articles. You’ll be working as part of a collaborative, and highly capable team to support and sustain communications and situational awareness products for public safety and military applications.
Specifically, the Sustaining Electrical Engineer will:
- Develop (document, design, test, support) solutions to product design defects including circuit re-design, and component changes
- Review legacy BOMs/components for accuracy & consistency between Altium library, PLM databases, and component prints
- Collaborate across the Engineering, Manufacturing, Production, and Quality teams
- Triage, troubleshoot, and diagnose products to root cause
- Qualify production supplier changes by developing and executing verification tests
- Collaborate with suppliers, and update technical documentation
- Author technical documentation such as test plans and reports, rework instructions, schematics, layout, and BOMs
- Collaborate with supply chain to resolve component obsolescence issues
- Document and present findings to the greater engineering team
- Develop non-production test and debugging tools (test boards, test boxes, cables, etc.)
- Create Engineering Change Notices (ECNs)
- Participate in DFMEAs and Design Reviews
- Assists with other related duties as required or assigned
