WHAT DOES AN ELECTROMECHANICAL TECHNICIAN DO?

Updated: Mai 31, 2025 - The Electromechanical Technician designs and develops methods for testing, calibrating, and troubleshooting systems to enhance performance and address failures. This position manages project schedules, procures materials, and conducts system evaluations and repairs to ensure operational efficiency. The technician assembles mechanical systems, prepares documentation, and provides technical guidance to support installation and maintenance processes.

A Review of Professional Skills and Functions for Electromechanical Technician

1. Electromechanical Technician Responsibilities

  • Safety Compliance: Complies with all safety rules and procedures.
  • Troubleshooting and Repair: Troubleshoots, repairs, and makes improvements to production lines to minimize downtime.
  • Systems Expertise: Works directly with HMI systems, hydraulic and pneumatic systems, electrical systems, and related components.
  • Maintenance Participation: Participates in daily Total Productive Maintenance activities and projects as directed by the Technical Lead.
  • Technical Training: Participates in additional technical training when available.
  • Quality Control: Implements controls and procedures to meet established quality standards for the customer.
  • Production Line Operation: Operates production lines and makes appropriate adjustments.
  • Process Improvement: Implements process improvements to cut costs and increase efficiency.
  • Inventory Management: Inventories spare parts and maintains 5S standards in parts storage areas and maintenance shops.
  • CAD Design: Use computer-aided design software to generate drawings of mechanical systems.

2. Electromechanical Technician Accountabilities

  • Safety Compliance: Be responsible for following all plant and department-specific safety rules, procedures, and programs.
  • PPE Adherence: Wear all required personal protective equipment for all plant, department, and task-specific requirements.
  • Chemical Safety: Review all SDSs for chemicals before initial use.
  • Incident Reporting: Be responsible for reporting all injuries, near misses, and property damage incidents to the Shift Supervisor before the end of the shift on the day of the incident.
  • Plant Maintenance: Provide daily maintenance for the plant, and perform mechanical, electrical, and preventive (PM) maintenance functions.
  • Electrical Troubleshooting: Troubleshoot and repair electrical/electronic systems.
  • System Maintenance: Troubleshoot and maintain pneumatic, hydraulic, and mechanical systems.
  • Circuit Board Repair: Repair circuit boards to component level.
  • Equipment Repair: Repair pumps, blowers, drives, heaters, dies, gearboxes, and PLCs.
  • Machinery Maintenance: Disassemble, clean, and reassemble production machinery.
  • 5S and CI Compliance: Comply with all 5S and CI initiatives.

3. Electromechanical Technician Functions

  • Diagnostics and Troubleshooting: Performs routine diagnostics tests on ISwT’s equipment and automated systems, identifying any electrical problems and making necessary repairs.
  • Inventory Management: Assists in monitoring the electronic equipment inventory, helping to identify obsolete equipment.
  • Scheduling and Preparation: Assists in creating and monitoring equipment shipment schedules, and preparing the electronic shop for inbound equipment.
  • Pre-Maintenance and Repair: Performs electrical pre-maintenance work on outbound equipment, troubleshooting and repairing defective equipment, and ordering new parts.
  • Equipment Calibration: Regularly inspects and calibrates equipment based on the manufacturer’s recommendations and government or industry standards.
  • Post-Repair Check-out: Executes procedural check-out of equipment post-repair, and prepares equipment for field examinations.
  • Data Analysis: Operates electronic equipment and automated systems, receives/analyzes data, and creates reports.
  • Safety Compliance: Ensures all ISwT equipment is following industry safety standards by reviewing state and federal laws and regulations and bureau policies for impact on automated systems.
  • Communication and Reporting: Provide the Group Leader with daily updates of schedule conflicts and completion of rush orders.

4. Electromechanical Technician Tasks

  • Fabrication and Documentation: Fabricate and document electronic control assemblies and test fixtures.
  • Financial Tracking: Track financial progress against CapEx and management report.
  • Blueprint Interpretation: Decipher electronic and mechanical schematics and flow diagrams.
  • Problem Solving: Work on assignments that may be quite broad, requiring substantial originality and ingenuity.
  • Continuous Improvement: Participate in the Company's continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Electromechanical Repair: Evaluate, troubleshoot, and repair electromechanical assemblies used in the Semiconductor industry.
  • Analysis and Repair: Utilize schematics, assembly drawings, test equipment, and precision measuring instruments to perform analysis and repairs.
  • Clean Room Work: Work in an ISO7 clean room.
  • Reporting: Develop detailed repair reports for customer review.
  • Soldering: Perform through-hole and surface mount soldering.
  • Process Improvement: Identify and provide ideas to continually improve internal processes, including maintaining all test fixtures, equipment, and test units such as motors, drives, and PC boards.

5. Electromechanical Technician Additional Details

  • Inspection and Maintenance: Perform inspections, preventative maintenance, mechanical troubleshooting, and repairs.
  • Ride Maintenance: Daily, weekly, monthly, semi-annual, and annual inspections and preventative maintenance on American and foreign-made rides.
  • Electrical Troubleshooting: Perform electrical and control troubleshooting and repairs to support the continued operation of the theme park, including instrumentation, controls, motors, VFDs, PLCs, HMIs, and basic electrical work.
  • Testing and Calibration: Testing, verification, and/or calibration of applicable control and mechanical systems.
  • Control Systems Maintenance: Maintain control systems such as Allen-Bradley, Siemens, Siemens LOGO Soft, Omron, etc.
  • Sensor Technology: Troubleshoot Electrical Control Systems and understand sensor technology.
  • Testing Equipment Operation: Possess the knowledge of testing equipment and the ability to operate digital/analog circuitry, volt/amp meter, and chart recorder up to 480v.
  • Blueprint Interpretation: Read and interpret electrical and mechanical schematics, blueprints, and technical documentation.
  • Project Assistance: Assist in special projects and/or equipment improvements.
  • Safety Participation: Participate in safety programs, TPM teams, and PM optimization.
  • Emergency Repairs: Follow established maintenance program, including any emergency repairs to keep downtime to an acceptable minimum in all areas of attractions and facilities.
  • Compliance Adherence: Ensure internal compliance with maintenance, safety, and security procedures by following established ASTM, NEC, state, and local electrical codes, and loss prevention guidelines.

6. Electromechanical Technician General Responsibilities

  • Test and Calibration Design: Design and development of test and calibration methods and procedures, or troubleshooting systems, components, and equipment not only for repair but also for evaluation of cause and subsequent design improvements.
  • Diagnostic Repair: Perform higher-level maintenance and diagnostic repair when rapid troubleshooting and repair are needed.
  • Project Management: Monitor project schedules (as established by the project engineer), procure parts and materials, generate shop orders, and test, evaluate, and interconnect subsystems.
  • Documentation and Cost Analysis: Write job orders for installations, prepare purchase requisitions, document system details, prepare simple cost estimates, or assist the professional staff with cost analysis.
  • Circuit Design: Design, component selection, layout, and fabrication of a particular circuit.
  • System Troubleshooting: Troubleshoot a system failure, and trace the fault through subsystem and module levels to the component level.
  • Facility Operation: Facility operation, including tasks such as setup, preparation of operational procedures, data analysis and reduction, and generation of data charts and graphs.
  • Technical Guidance: Provide technical guidance to other workers.
  • Mechanical System Design: Design, select material, layout, fabricate (within 100-micron tolerances), and develop assembly procedures for a mechanical system.
  • Component Installation: Install and position components and equipment of various sizes and weights, using various rigging apparatus such as hoists, forklifts, and large bridge cranes.
  • System Assembly: Assemble a mechanical system from prints or sketches.
  • Chemical Processing: Chemically treat or process, including formulation and mixing to appropriate specifications for the chemicals used.
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