PCBA Test Engineer

FOSS is providing world leading analytical equipment that contribute to the sustainable use of our planet’s agricultural resources and thus to the nutrition and health of the people of the world. We want to be first mover in innovation based on unrivalled quality of products and services as well as competent and engaged employees.

Do you have a passion for product development and enjoy collaborating with like-minded individuals? Our Hillerød headquarters is currently looking for a PCBA Test Engineer who excels in collaborative environments to join our committed team of developers in FOSS R&D.

In this position, you'll play a crucial role in ensuring the quality of our cutting-edge instruments. You'll work alongside highly skilled and motivated colleagues in multidisciplinary projects that are both challenging and rewarding. We're seeking individuals with a proven track record of delivering high-quality solutions, could this opportunity be right for you?

The job

We are currently seeking a talented PCBA Test Engineer with a focus on supporting our present systems, particularly with expertise in LabVIEW and TestStand and has a system understanding. This role offers an exciting opportunity to work alongside a dynamic team of developers and engineers. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring the functionality and reliability of our PCBA testing procedures, utilizing your proficiency in LabVIEW and TestStand to optimize testing processes and enhance efficiency.

You will have the opportunity to actively participate in design reviews, providing invaluable input from a testability perspective. Your role in these design reviews will be instrumental in ensuring that products are not only well-designed but also optimized for efficient and effective testing processes.

During design reviews, you will leverage your expertise in PCBA testing to assess the testability of proposed designs. You will analyze circuit layouts, component placements, and connectivity to identify potential testing challenges and opportunities for improvement. By offering insights from a testability point of view, you will help guide the design process towards solutions that are not only functional and innovative but also practical and easy to test.

Your role in supporting production and suppliers with PCBA test issues will be essential in maintaining operational efficiency, minimizing downtime, and maximizing product quality and ensuring the seamless integration of PCBA testing into our production processes and the success of our products in the market.

The candidate

You have a strong foundation in electrical engineering concepts and is proficient in a variety of testing methodologies, tools, and equipment. You have in-depth knowledge of PCB assembly processes, test automation frameworks, and programming languages such as LabVIEW, TestStand, Python, or C/C++.

You possess strong analytical abilities, enabling you to dissect complex testing challenges, identify root causes of issues. You approach problems methodically, breaking them down into manageable components and exploring multiple solutions to find the most effective resolution. You're adept at troubleshooting circuitry, interpreting test results, and implementing corrective actions to improve test coverage and accuracy.

In this role, you'll encounter scenarios where the pressure can be high, particularly during production stoppages. These moments demand swift and effective problem-solving skills, as any delay in production can have significant consequences.

Your tenacity shines through as you skillfully address equipment issues, minimizing disruptions to production and ensuring seamless operations.

Qualifications

You hold a degree in electronics engineering and must be fluent in English and Danish.

The ideal candidate should possess a minimum of five years of working experience in most of the following areas:

  • PCBA test development and support
  • Electronics & schematic design
  • Labview, TestStand, python or other scripting languages
  • Planning, coordination, and communication

We offer

We offer a stimulating job in an international and innovative company that is a world expert in its field. You will get the opportunity to collaborate with many talented people across different field of expertise, and you will be working with developing advanced technologies to make a real difference for our customers.

Our working culture is based on trust and teamwork, and you can expect to enter a great working place where you can bring your ideas to the table and make a real difference. There will be a fair amount of travel activity to visit our subsidiaries and customers. If you want to know more about the position you are welcome to contact Martin Lyck, e-mail mly@foss.dk.

FOSS is committed to maintaining an inclusive culture and a diverse workforce. You can help us sustain an unbiased recruitment process by not including photo or age in your application.

How to apply

Our goal is to make the recruitment process as professional and positive as possible. The recruitment process starts when you’ve submitted your application online. Vacant positions at FOSS do not always have an application deadline, so please apply today rather than tomorrow. The reason for this is that we want to ensure a fast and efficient process, which means that we review applications on an ongoing basis. Candidates who are invited for interviews will receive an invitation per email.

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Sustainability is an integral part of our business

At FOSS, we have a taken a holistic approach to Sustainability. It’s not only about conducting our business in a responsible and ethical manner. It’s also about developing solutions that make a difference in the world. We help our customers tackle difficult global challenges such as efficiency in food production, consistency in quality and food safety.

We are operating in a world with significant population growth, scarce resources, food safety scandals and growing concerns about the climate. As the leading business-to-business provider of dedicated analytical technology, we play a key role in this environment.

For example, our technology is increasingly important in expanding food supply by making rational use of increasingly limited resources, while ensuring the best quality food reaches the consumer. To address this challenge there is a need for the development of solutions that analyze and make data manageable and actionable throughout the production process. Information management of analytics will be the future of the food and feed industry, enabling producers to increase yields by being more efficient. Intelligent and automated processes that run on data will define our customers’ future production - and much of the 10% of our turnover we annually invest in research and development will be dedicated to this area.

Working at FOSS

We work on a global scale to develop the people working at FOSS. We strive to enhance job satisfaction and motivation by constantly improving the competencies of our managers as well as following up on employee satisfaction.

We know our employees are our strongest asset.

Therefore, we emphasise, invest in and appraise our employees’ knowledge, skills and attitudes, and take pride in creating an environment with trust, confidence and development. We also believe that clearly defined objectives enable people to achieve their performance potential and that the support from the immediate superior is essential. Most important of all; trained, well-motivated and competent employees are a perquisite for success in the future. We manage by values, but also clear objectives, and follow up through regular meetings between the employee and the manager. In these meetings, there is also room to discuss career aspirations and other development opportunities including internal career moves.

You will have the opportunity for internal career development.

As a company, we are small enough for you to get high influence in the job, but we are also big enough for complex development and global careers. If you want to move in a new direction and continue to develop along with your professional capable colleagues, we offer the opportunity for internal career moves inside FOSS. As we are a knowledge-heavy company, this is a win-win scenario for both FOSS and our employees.

Work with creative and professionally strong colleagues.

Teamwork is essential to FOSS. By developing solutions in cross-functional teams, we integrate knowledge, experience and competences from many perspectives to achieve great results. We communicate in a straight-forward manner and solve challenges together. In FOSS, we truly value that you voice your opinion, take responsibility and ownership. Our company size in turn allows for independent, dynamic and fast decisions.

If you join FOSS, we promise you that you will enter an environment with new learnings through projects, new technologies and market opportunities. We love to be entrepreneurial and open-minded to new ideas, and if you get a good idea – you can bring it forward.

Join a company with a clear business idea and purpose, but also strong values.

In a global world with a growing population, there is an ever-increasing demand for safer food, production that is more efficient and less food waste. Globally, we need to produce as much food the next 40 years as the last 8,000 years to meet the needs of a growing population and declining natural resources. A huge challenge, which requires that we become better at utilizing the resources available.

The business vision of FOSS to contribute to a more sustainable use of increasingly valuable agricultural resources, and to the nutrition and health of the people of the world. We provide the industry’s best analytics, which add value to our customers by improving quality and optimising food and agricultural production.

Join FOSS, and you will be part of this mission, more relevant today than ever. 

Meet our employees

Meet Jan – manager of Concept Development in Research & Development

Jan’s daily work as a manager in Concept Development consists of generating new ideas in collaboration with his team and deciding which ideas should be developed. The daily challenge of finding the right solutions to address the needs of our customers is solved by a diverse and competent group of specialists working together.



Meet Mariana – Chemometrician in Research & Development

Mariana is a Spanish Chemometrician specialised in NIR. Coming from a research background her move to FOSS was motivated by a desire to work with real products and real customers. AT FOSS she is involved in the innovation of new products, developing calibrations for the EyeFoss image analysis grain analyser.

About FOSS

FOSS creates end-to-end solutions that secure and improve food quality. From raw material to finished product. Our analysis instruments refine measurements into information management that enables businesses to run intelligent data-driven productions with less waste and bigger yields. Controlling cost and quality across all sectors and value chains, we help food and agricultural producers limit the number of human errors, scale their business faster and reduce manual labour as well as labour costs. We call it analytics beyond measure.

Over the last 60 years, we have made it our business to define the standard of analytical solutions for the food and agricultural industry. We pioneered advanced analysis for the challenging production environments in the 1960’s, and we were the first to integrate chemical composition analysis in process lines. Now our resolve and ambition have also made us the international benchmark in the field of chemometrics and real time analytics.

FOSS is a 100% family-owned company and the leading supplier of innovative analytical solutions; 98 percent of FOSS’ business is generated outside Denmark. FOSS has more than 100 patents and more than 20 world-first product introductions. FOSS employs more than 1700 dedicated people worldwide and has manufacturing, research and development facilities in Denmark and China. Solutions are sold and supported through FOSS sales and service companies in 28 countries and by more than 75 distributors. Many employees have a top-level scientific or technical background, including more than 130 Master of Science and more than 20 PhDs in areas such as photonics, chemometrics, physical chemistry, analytical chemistry, fermentation and bio-engineering, astrophysics, optical communication, physics, quality, nanotechnology, food science and adaptive radiotherapy. We also employ many factory-trained and certified support engineers stationed close to our customers.

FOSS

Foss Allé 1

DK-3400 Hilleroed

Denmark

Phone: +45 70 10 33 70

E-mail: info@foss.dk