Overview: Are you interested in joining a dynamic and international team of professionals to transform education? IE Sci-Tech School is looking for a Robotics and Electronics Laboratory Technician to join its team!

• People-driven
• Change Builders
• Autonomy Enthusiasts
• Communication Enthusiasts
• Knowledge Champions

We are looking for a person to join a full-time position in Madrid.
Responsibilities: Your role as Robotics and Electronics Laboratory Technician will involve:

• Establishes lab organization priorities and ensures adherence to schedules and safety guidelines.
• Acts as a technical expert to instruct and resolve issues for faculty and students related to operating as issues arise. This includes providing technical guidance and assistance concerning work methods, the use of equipment, techniques, and the analysis of results. Must stay current on new developments, skills, and knowledge in robotics, electronics, rapid prototyping, and related fields.
• Educates students in a variety of equipment use.
• Prepares the labs for academic experiments/projects.
• Coordinates the execution of experiments, projects and services with students and faculty to help produce state-of-the-art research. Verifies the work of students to ensure efficiency and quality of output.
• Coordinates and participates in field activities of the robotics and electronics laboratory, as needed.
• Undertakes other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
• Performs thorough risk assessment for all tools and equipment.
• Creates documentation for reproducibility purposes and creates guidelines of use for robotics platforms and lab tools and equipment.

• Maintains and calibrates equipment (soldering stations, 3D printers, electronics workbench equipment, and other laboratory equipment) and performs repairs. Arranges for servicing to ensure equipment is properly maintained and calibrated, when needed.
• Manages small tools and small electronic components. Ensures the stock of consumables does not run low and the storage classification of components is maintained.
• Keeps and tracks tool and equipment inventory, determines which tools are needed, recommends equipment and material purchases to purchasing staff.
• Monitors mobile and stationary robotic platforms to assure proper performance for classes and projects and schedules repairs and maintenance.
• Manages maintenance and calibration of customized motion capture systems and robotics arenas, including calibration of projectors, cameras, trackers, etc.
• Ensures student compliance with safety regulations in the use of tools and machines, including behavior around moving parts and activities requiring ventilation, as well as the proper storage, handling, and disposal of batteries and other hazardous materials.
• Reviews, tests, evaluates, and modifies electronics and equipment as needed.
• Network administration of the digital infrastructure of the lab (services, communication channels, network), maintenance of the robotics lab servers, software development and maintenance of the code repositories of the lab (Git Hub, Gitlab).

Qualifications: To thrive in this role, you should have:

• Four years of either appropriate education or experience in an appropriate occupational field related to the work assigned to the position.
• Must be approachable and highly collaborative.
• Diligent, and able to strategically conceive and coordinate long-term projects planned over a long period of time.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills.
• Ability to work independently as well as on a team.