The Service Electronics Technician I is a key member of our service team whose focus is on repairing our exchange stock items from customer jobsites, as well as analyzing field returns and trends to provide key information to engineering and production. This experienced, skilled technician repairs all levels of surface-mount and thru-hole mounted electronic equipment.
Responsibilities
Repair all levels of electronic modules, including board-level troubleshooting and replacement for thru-hole and surface mount circuit boards.
Repair power supplies, controllers and other components as needed
Read and understand electronic schematics
Provide detailed feedback to service manager regarding trends, repeat issues, problem jobsites.
Fill and ship customer orders on a regular basis
Participate in maintenance of database of answers to customer questions.
Maintains a sense of urgency while being safety minded and using equipment in a safe manner.
Works in a team environment.
Other duties as required.
Recommend/implement repair testing procedures
Required Qualifications/Skills:
Requires demonstrated exceptional troubleshooting and soldering skills.
Requires strong verbal and written communication skills
Some physical ability such as moderate lifting and working on ladders
Able to stand, walk, talk, and hear. Stoop, kneel, & crouch.
Frequently lift and or move 10 pounds, and occasionally lift and or move 50 pounds.
Perform other various special software and engineering assignments
Vision Requirements: close vision, distance vision, color vision, ability to adjust focus
Required Education and Licensing
Requires a 2-year electronics technology or similar degree or military equivalent.
Requires minimum 2 years of relevant experience, including board level component troubleshooting and repair.
Benefits Include:
Medical
Dental
Vision
Company Paid Life/ADD
Voluntary Life/ADD
Dependent Life/ADD
401k with Employer Match
Vacation
Personal Time
*Watchfire is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs.
*Legal authorization to work in the US required. We will not consider candidates who need sponsorship, now or in the future, to be legally employed in the US. No H1B, OPT, CPT or other “temporary work authorization” candidates will be considered.
Headquartered in Danville, Ill., Watchfire has manufactured electric signs since 1932 and LED signs, using meticulously sourced components from around the world, since 1998. Our products include indoor and outdoor LED displays, fixed digit and video scoreboards, gas price signs and digital billboards. Every aspect of our products and service is focused on giving our customers the greatest advertising tools available for developing their business and increasing sales. Our partnerships with respected, knowledgeable sign company professionals are the foundation of our collective success.
Watchfire LED signs are known for their legendary quality and reliability. We test our outdoor displays to withstand whatever nature throws at them, all to guarantee our customers years of worry-free performance. The excellence in every Watchfire sign begins with our outstanding engineering team designing a quality product. In production, we choose quality over expedience or expense. We use the best performing components available from a global market and invest the time and expense needed to evaluate and verify every aspect of our products’ design, function and serviceability. Our reputation depends on our displays looking and performing great not just on day one, but for years to come.
We developed our proprietary Ignite software to create and manage messages from design to scheduling. Whether the sign is large or small, color or monochrome, the suite of Ignite software helps create head-turning messages through easy-to-use interfaces.
Watchfire has over 70,000 LED signs in operation at convenience stores, gas stations, retail outlets, banks, schools, places of worship and other locations worldwide. We also have more digital billboard customers in the U.S. than any other brand.
