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Job Description
Assist engineers in determining the practicality of proposed product design changes and plan and carry out tests on experimental test devices or equipment for performance, durability, or efficiency.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 17-3027.01
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Automotive Engineering Technicians”.
Also Known As…
- Automotive Engineering Technicians
- Test Engineer
- Laboratory Technician (Lab Technician)
- Engineering Team Supervisor
- Emissions Engineer
- Research Technician
- Durability Technician
- Automotive Engineering Technician
- Auto Design Checker
Tasks for “Research Technician”
- Recommend tests or testing conditions in accordance with designs, customer requirements, or industry standards to ensure test validity.
- Recommend product or component design improvements, based on test data or observations.
- Analyze performance of vehicles or components that have been redesigned to increase fuel efficiency, such as camless or dual-clutch engines or alternative types of air-conditioning systems.
- Analyze test data for automotive systems, subsystems, or component parts.
- Document test results, using cameras, spreadsheets, documents, or other tools.
- Maintain test equipment in operational condition by performing routine maintenance or making minor repairs or adjustments as needed.
- Build instrumentation or laboratory test equipment for special purposes.
- Read and interpret blueprints, schematics, work specifications, drawings, or charts.
- Fabricate new or modify existing prototype components or fixtures.
- Test performance of vehicles that use alternative fuels, such as alcohol blends, natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, biodiesel, nano diesel, or alternative power methods, such as solar energy or hydrogen fuel cells.
- Install equipment, such as instrumentation, test equipment, engines, or aftermarket products, to ensure proper interfaces.
- Participate in research or testing of computerized automotive applications, such as telemetrics, intelligent transportation systems, artificial intelligence, or automatic control.
- Order new test equipment, supplies, or replacement parts.
- Perform or execute manual or automated tests of automotive system or component performance, efficiency, or durability.
- Inspect or test parts to determine nature or cause of defects or malfunctions.
- Improve fuel efficiency by testing vehicles or components that use lighter materials, such as aluminum, magnesium alloy, or plastic.
- Set up mechanical, hydraulic, or electric test equipment in accordance with engineering specifications, standards, or test procedures.
- Monitor computer-controlled test equipment, according to written or verbal instructions.
Related Technology & Tools
- Metal inert gas MIG welders
- Exhaust gas analyzers
- Timing lights
- Tungsten inert gas TIG welding equipment
- Electronic engine analyzers
- Force gauges
- Ignition oscilloscopes
- High-vacuum tensile testing chambers
- Leakage testers
- Frequency counters
- Pin gauges
- Environmental chambers
- Function generators
- Engine lathes
- Compression testers
- Flow benches
- Chassis dynamometers
- Calipers
- Oscilloscopes
- Vibration testers
- Crack detection equipment
- Computer numerical controlled CNC milling machines
- Computerized numerical control CNC turning centers
- Multimeters
- Plasma cutters
- National Instruments LabVIEW
- Microsoft Word
- Autodesk AutoCAD Mechanical
- Road simulators
- IBM Notes
- PTC Creo Parametric
- Computer aided design CAD software
- Microsoft Office
- SAP
- Microsoft Excel
- Data acquisition software
- Autodesk Inventor
- Computer aided manufacturing CAM software