Job Description:

• 1) Performs any combination of following tasks to process substrate, electrode, and termination materials to form monolithic ceramic capacitors: Reviews work orders and production schedules to determine processing specifications.

• 2) Deposits layer of dielectric ceramic material on thermoplastic sheets, using tape casting equipment.

• 3) Cuts cast sheets into ceramic wafers.

• 4) Verifies and sorts wafers according to thickness and quality, using thickness gauge and magnifying device.

• 5) Deposits electrode material onto wafers, using silk screen printing machine.

• 6) Heats and compresses stacks of imprinted, ceramic wafers to form laminates, using laminating press.

• 7) Cuts laminate into chips, using bench-mounted cutting equipment or automatic cutter.

• 8) Loads chips onto boat and fires chips in kiln to fuse laminated material.

• 9) Applies conductive termination material to specified edges of ceramic chips, manually or using automatic dipping equipment.

• 10) Fuses conductive termination material to ceramic chip, using automatic oven.

• 11) Polishes fused chip, using tumbler.

• 12) Solders lead wires to ceramic chip, manually or using automatic soldering machine.

• 13) Encases capacitors in epoxy material.