Skills
Select one or more knowledge areas or skills to find related occupations.
0 skills selected
Overview
The work combines preventive checks, troubleshooting, testing and repair of microelectronic equipment, often using technical documentation, electronics knowledge and careful handling of small components.
In job descriptions, look for microelectronics, integrated circuits, test routines, soldering, preventive maintenance, machinery checks, inter-shift handover, quality standards, technical documentation, firmware or engineer collaboration.
Explore this occupation
Search jobsWhat the work can involve
Microelectronics maintenance technicians keep small electronic systems and production equipment working through checks, tests and fault repair. The work can involve circuit boards, integrated circuits, soldering, technical documents and careful shift handover.
Skills and specializations
Useful depth includes electronics, microassembly, integrated circuits, CAD or CAM awareness, test routines, safe machinery work, soldering and the ability to use documentation to isolate faults.
Salary context
Salary context depends on equipment complexity, clean or controlled production settings, fault-critical downtime, shift work, testing responsibility, component repair depth and collaboration with engineers.
Career paths
Career paths can move toward senior maintenance technician, electronics test technician, process support, quality assurance, equipment engineering support, firmware-related maintenance or team supervision.
Good to know
Check whether adverts name the systems maintained, test equipment, soldering tasks, preventive checks, documentation standards, shift communication, production environment and expected engineer collaboration.
Editorial note
This guide is editorial career context. It is not official labour-market statistics or role-specific salary data.
Where might this occupation occur?
This occupation may occur in several kinds of economic activity. Here are some examples and other occupations that may be found in the same areas.
Manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products
This is one example. Other occupations in this activity include microelectronics engineering technician, microsystem engineering technician and electronics engineering technician.
Explore this activityThese examples offer an overview but do not show every economic activity where the occupation may occur.
About this information
The selection is based on how occupations are connected to economic activities in ESCO and NACE. Only a few examples are shown to make the information easier to use. The occupations were selected because they are close in occupation area and important skills. The examples are not a ranking. They do not show where most people work, where demand is highest, or which occupation is best suited to a particular person.
Map overview
Click the map to search for microelectronics maintenance technician jobs.
— Jobs total — Countries with jobs
O*NET relationships
See occupations connected to this ESCO occupation in the official O*NET–ESCO mapping. The relationship type comes from the source and is not a ranking or recommendation.
O*NET relationships: 1
Industrial Machinery Mechanics
49-9041.00
Close relationship
The occupations are closely related, but the official mapping does not treat them as exact equivalents.
The official mapping connects this O*NET occupation to many ESCO occupations.
Source and method
These relationships come from the official European Commission O*NET–ESCO crosswalk.
Relationship direction: O*NET occupation to ESCO occupation.
Several O*NET occupations can point to the same ESCO occupation, and one O*NET occupation can point to several ESCO occupations.
AltoTrail preserves the source relationship type. The order is technical and does not show which occupation is best, most relevant or recommended.
AltoTrail validates and presents the source relationships without adding ranking or recommendation semantics.
NACE Rev. 2.1
Economic activities linked to this occupation.
26Manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products
Alternative labels
Occupation group
electronics engineering technician (3114.1)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/2168e49d-e58a-43ec-a15e-8e173939b255 |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 3114.1.7 |
| ISCO group | 3114 |
| Concept type | Occupation |