SMT Soldering Technician

PGS Worldwide is seeking an SMT Soldering Technician in Oldsmar, Florida for a one-year onsite contract-to-hire role supporting a leading aerospace & defense company. This first-shift position will perform advanced surface-mount soldering, rework, inspection, and defect correction on electronic circuit card assemblies in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

Required Skills

• 5+ years of soldering experience in an electronics manufacturing environment.
• Strong experience soldering and reworking surface-mount components.
• Experience using a microscope for component placement, soldering, inspection, and touch-up.
• Ability to identify and repair solder defects, including insufficient solder, solder bridges, misaligned components, tombstoning, billboarded components, and poor wetting.
• Experience using rework equipment such as hot-air pencils, hot plates, and BGA removal systems.
• Experience using Automated Optical Inspection (AOI) equipment.
• Ability to distinguish actual AOI defects from false calls.
• Experience reviewing circuit boards under X-ray to identify solder defects on bottom-terminated components.
• Ability to read work instructions and identify standard SMT components.
• IPC-A-610 certification required; active or expired accepted.
• IPC J-STD-001 certification required; active or expired accepted.
• Ability to sit for extended periods and maintain focus on detailed, repetitive work.
• Ability to work overtime as required.
• Ability to successfully complete the required medical examination.

Preferred Skills

• Experience installing, soldering, and securing jumper wires on redesigned circuit boards.
• BGA rework experience using ERSA or similar equipment.
• Experience performing high-complexity circuit-card rework and repair.

What You’ll Do

• Manually align surface-mount components before soldering.
• Perform soldering, rework, touch-up, and repair of SMT components.
• Use microscopes to verify component placement, orientation, and workmanship.
• Perform post-reflow inspection and solder touch-up.
• Identify and correct solder shorts, bridges, voids, insufficient solder, misalignment, and other workmanship defects.
• Operate AOI equipment to identify potential solder and component defects.
• Use X-ray inspection to evaluate solder joints on bottom-terminated components.
• Operate hot-air, hot-plate, BGA removal, and other electronic rework equipment.
• Support jumper-wire installation and board modifications when required.
• Maintain high workmanship standards while meeting production schedules.

Work Schedule / Shift

• Full-time onsite in Oldsmar, Florida.
• 1st Shift: Monday–Thursday, 5:00 AM–3:30 PM ET.
• Overtime may be required.

Pay

• $20.00–$25.00 per hour.
• Overtime eligible after 40 hours.

Job ID: 22869

Military veterans and transitioning military members are encouraged to apply to all PGS Worldwide positions. All of our jobs are military-friendly, and we work with leaders in Aerospace who rely on your military expertise to support mission-critical programs nationwide. As a Veteran Founded company, we know that the military has given you the skills and training you need to succeed in positions like this, and we want to support your success in the civilian sector however we can. We thank you for your service and humbly offer our own in return by helping you take your career to the next level.