A professional who performs any combination of following tasks to process substrate, electrode, and termination materials to form monolithic ceramic capacitors. Respnsibilities include:

• Reviews work orders and production schedules to determine processing specifications.
• Deposits layer of dielectric ceramic material on thermoplastic sheets, using tape casting equipment.
• Cuts cast sheets into ceramic wafers.
• Verifies and sorts wafers according to thickness and quality, using thickness gauge and magnifying device.
• Deposits electrode material onto wafers, using silk screen printing machine.
• Heats and compresses stacks of imprinted, ceramic wafers to form laminates, using laminating press.
• Cuts laminate into chips, using bench-mounted cutting equipment or automatic cutter.
• Loads chips onto boat and fires chips in kiln to fuse laminated material.
• Applies conductive termination material to specified edges of ceramic chips, manually or using automatic dipping equipment.
• Fuses conductive termination material to ceramic chip, using automatic oven.
• Polishes fused chip, using tumbler.
• Solders lead wires to ceramic chip, manually or using automatic soldering machine.
• Encases capacitors in epoxy material.