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Electronics Technician - Medical Facility

UCI Series Concepts

Class Specifications - G.40
Principal Electronics Technician - Medical Facility - 8681
Senior Electronics Technician - Medical Facility - 8682
Electronics Technician - Medical Facility - 8683
Electronics Technician Trainee - Medical Facility - 8684

January, 1985

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SERIES CONCEPT

Electronics Technicians - Medical Facility perform a variety of 
operations at a medical facility in connection with the design, 
development, evaluation, testing, installation and maintenance of 
electronic equipment and systems; and perform other related duties as 
required.  These operations require a knowledge of the capabilities, 
limitations, design characteristics and functional use of a wide variety 
of electronic equipment and systems.

Incumbents typically design electronic equipment; fabricate electronic 
equipment and systems by wire wrapping boards and back panels, by 
mounting components and power supplies, and by constructing 
inter-connecting units; test and operate electronic equipment to 
establish permissible tolerances and parameters in its operation; debug 
prototype equipment and repair existing equipment by working from 
schematic drawings and using test equipment in locating and isolating 
malfunctions within the equipment; install and check out new equipment; 
maintain existing and prototype electronic systems and equipment; 
perform diagnostic tests on digital systems; and may set up programs 
using digital and analog equipment to perform experiments.

The series is characterized by a knowledge and understanding of 
mathematics, electronics and physics that is less than professional 
engineering knowledge, but which enables the technician to understand 
electronic devices.  Electronics Technicians - Medical Facility must 
apply this general knowledge, and in addition must transfer their 
experience and knowledge of electronic equipment from systems on which 
they have previously worked.  Knowledge acquired is normally in the areas 
of digital techniques such as loading rules, speeds, noise problems and 
timing characteristics of commonly used integrated circuit families; 
and/or analog techniques such as elimination of interference and 
distortion, modulation and demodulation of waveforms, and amplification 
of electrical currents and voltages by recognizing source and load 
impedance as well as basic limitations of amplifiers.  Levels of 
difficulty within the series are based on such factors as the nature and 
complexity of work performed, the complexity of equipment involved, and 
the degree of technical responsibility exercised.

                           CLASS CONCEPTS

Principal Electronics Technician - Medical Facility

Under general supervision, incumbents design electronic equipment under 
the guidance of engineers or other scientific professionals using 
reference material from manufacturers' catalogs and trade publications.  
Incumbents also perform construction, assembly, installation, 
maintenance, documentation, or instrumentation of complex electronic 
equipment; and may serve as working leaders of small groups performing 
fabrication, assembly, and installation of complex electronic equipment.

Electronics Technicians - Medical Facility commonly rely on precedent 
type or parallel methods that can be extended or modified in completing 
the design concept of the engineer.  They may, following precedents, 
integrate equipment into complete systems, and make modifications to 
permit such integration, but are not expected to have the electronic 
knowledge and experience to plan and carry out a non-standardized 
integration independently.

Electronics Technician Trainee - Medical Facility

Under close supervision and with work assignments checked while in 
process, incumbents perform increasingly more difficult tasks leading to 
the development of Technician-level skills.  Guidelines include detailed 
procedures, blueprints, sketches, schematics, or verbal instructions.  
Incumbents lay out, fabricate, assemble, and install electrical, 
electronic and/or mechanical parts, or component assemblies to systems 
or units; perform routine diagnosis and troubleshooting to determine 
cause and remedy for malfunctions of equipment; conduct simple tensile, 
hardness, or other routine experimental tests; maintain and record test 
data, calculations, drawings, curves and graphs; and assist in general 
laboratory work.

                         MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Applicants for positions in the Electronics Technician - Medical 
Facility series are expected to possess the skills, knowledge, and 
abilities essential to the successful performance of the duties assigned 
to the position.

Note: Specific qualification requirements are approved for positions by 
      the Personnel Manager in accordance with the provisions of Staff 
      Personnel Policies 210.8 and 210.9.

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