RF Calibration Technician
Job Description
Calibration Technician – ECAL Team
As a Calibration Technician on the ECAL Team, you will perform calibrations on new production instruments, recalibrate customer instruments, and maintain the calibration of all measurement and test equipment (M&TE) using internal and external calibration services. You will follow and support the ISO 17025 Quality Standard while ensuring accuracy, reliability, and compliance across all calibration and manufacturing activities.
In this role, you will also install, modify, relocate, calibrate, troubleshoot, repair, and dismantle machinery and equipment used in the manufacturing process. All work is performed in accordance with established documentation (e.g., SOPs), layout plans, blueprints, and technical drawings. You may support equipment modifications as directed by manufacturing engineers.
Key Responsibilities
- Perform calibrations and adjustments on electrical instruments
- Maintain primary and secondary calibration standards according to established schedules
- Ensure all M&TE is calibrated and compliant with quality and regulatory requirements
- Collect data, document results, and generate calibration certificates
- Troubleshoot, repair, and maintain manufacturing equipment and systems
- Train and support technicians in calibration standards, tools, and procedures
- Work from SOPs, schematics, and technical drawings to complete tasks accurately
- Support production demands, including overtime and weekend work as needed
Qualifications
- Typically requires 0–2 years of related experience or equivalent vocational training
- Strong soldering skills
- Ability to troubleshoot printed circuit assemblies to the component level
- Proficiency with oscilloscopes and digital multimeters
- Required: Experience calibrating and troubleshooting RF (radio frequency) equipment
- Strong technical, analytical, and problem-solving skills
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- External certification may be required; a university degree is typically not required
Additional Information
- This role does not have formal supervisory responsibility but may include mentoring, coaching, and assisting less experienced staff
- Work involves applying technical and analytical skills to support manufacturing and engineering functions
Fortive Corporation Overview
Fortive’s essential technology makes the world stronger, safer, and smarter. We accelerate transformation across a broad range of applications including environmental, health and safety compliance, industrial condition monitoring, next-generation product design, and healthcare safety solutions.
We are a global industrial technology innovator with a startup spirit. Our forward-looking companies lead the way in software-powered workflow solutions, data-driven intelligence, AI-powered automation, and other disruptive technologies. We’re a force for progress, working alongside our customers and partners to solve challenges on a global scale, from workplace safety in the most demanding conditions to groundbreaking sustainability solutions.
We are a diverse team 18,000 strong, united by a dynamic, inclusive culture and energized by limitless learning and growth. We use the proven Fortive Business System (FBS) to accelerate our positive impact.
At Fortive, we believe in you. We believe in your potential—your ability to learn, grow, and make a difference.
At Fortive, we believe in us. We believe in the power of people working together to solve problems no one could solve alone.
At Fortive, we believe in growth. We’re honest about what’s working and what isn’t, and we never stop improving and innovating.
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