Lab Technician

Your Job

Molex VSS Team is seeking a talented Lab Technician to join our team in Lisle, Illinois.

The ideal candidate is a hands-on, multi-functional technician capable of supporting hand soldering, visual inspection, dimensional analysis, and laboratory testing activities.

In this role, you will be responsible for sample preparation, testing, troubleshooting, and root cause failure analysis throughout the product development cycle.

Our Team

Molex is a global team of innovators who design and create solutions for businesses where data, technology and the complex electronic solutions that harness them are being transformed by rapid change.

We are part of a team around the globe working to improve life's essential products like food, clothing, water, transportation, medical and technology.

The company makes products ranging from interconnect components to collimators to complex fiber optic assemblies used in a wide range of industries.

This Molex facility works with custom fiber optic assemblies, bundles, and specialty fibers including gold and aluminum metalized fibers for industrial and medical applications.

What You Will Do

Lab Technician


* Build, modify, and prepare test modules, PC boards, load boards, connector and cable assemblies for mechanical, environmental, and electrical testing using manual and automated tools and hand soldering techniques


* Design, build, or modify mechanical test setups


* Set up and tear down electromechanical tests on sensor modules


* Perform visual inspections, test measurements, and calibrations on sensor modules


* Perform failure analysis on samples failed during testing and on customer-reported failures


* Document and communicate test results through written test reports


* Participate in failure analysis of sensor modules by applying critical thinking to analyze test data


* Coordinate testing activities with internal and external partner labs as needed


* Carry out dimensional measurements to verify compliance with engineering drawings


* Solder a variety of components, including through-hole and SMT


* Perform board rework and modifications to support engineering evaluations


* Operate environmental chambers


* Develop, contribute to, and maintain test procedure documents to ensure repeatable and reproducible test results

Lab Maintenance


* Perform required checks and maintenance to comply with Molex EH&S policies


* Provide workplace hazard and SOP training to new personnel and maintain training records


* Maintain a list of lab equipment and schedule bi-yearly calibrations


* Perform periodic ESD testing of all benchtops


* Ensure lab test equipment is properly maintained, stored, and calibrated


* Maintain cleanliness of the lab space


* Maintain inventory of test modules, components, cables, and miscellaneous lab supplies

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)



* Three (3) years or more lab experience OR an a...