Senior Engineer, Product Design

Your Job

Molex is seeking an experienced mechanical New Product Development Engineering Supervisor to lead our team in our industry leading high-speed connector and cable systems for our big data and hyperscale customers. These creative, high-tech leading-edge components are critical for the data superhighways existence we use every day changing the world. Here at Molex we are leading the industry, with our smart data solutions to solve our customers toughest challenges. In this highly visible engineering position, you will join a team of professionals who are passionate to deliver the best products in the world to the market.

Our Team

This role will be working with departments involved in new product development and manufacturing, including Product Marketing, Product & Project Management, Manufacturing Operations, Advanced Quality Planning, Reliability Laboratory, and Quality across different time zones. Interact with customers and suppliers, on-site if needed.

What You Will Do

• Be a leader in a global organization designing and developing new products and components for the high-speed connector and cable industry.
• Interfacing with professional cross functional team members in our signal integrity team, manufacturing integration team, program management, sales organization, state of the art test laboratories, high tech R&D model shop, manufacturing, and senior leadership teams.
• Guiding your teams design and develop of new internal connector products, including high speed connectors, and connector cable assemblies.
• Collaborating with your team to develop cost competitive and creative designs with the signal integrity team and manufacturing that are efficient to manufacture while meeting our high-performance market requirements.
• Develop product and application specifications documents for testing that meet our customer requirements and general market expectations.
• With your team presenting concepts and detailed requirements internally and to customers to obtain support for development of major new products through technical design reviews.
• Support Manufacturing and Quality Assurance during product launches and have travel opportunities to visit our manufacturing sites and meet the global team.
• Lead the organization in identification, evaluation, and implementation of new technologies and methodologies to enable next generation products, improve costs and quality, as well as improve New Product Development (NPD) engineering processes.
• Provide application and technical support to consolidate inputs from Marketing, customers, and external consultants into product concepts and detailed requirements.
• Follow all product development steps from concept inception, refinement of detailed product design, supply tooling group models and drawings for quoting and tool build.
• Able to travel for business for around 25% in a year (e.g. to Malaysia etc.)
• Other duties as assigned by Management
  
  
  

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a similar engineering-related field.
• 5 years of experience in mechanical product design and development.
• 2 years of proven technical leadership (supervisory or mentorship) experience.
• Working knowledge of Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and GD&T (Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing) concepts.
  
  
  

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience with product development for electronics industries.
• Siemens NX experience or experience with advanced parametric 3D CAD systems.
• Design experience with high-speed, high-density connectors, cable assemblies, and interconnect products.
• Knowledge of regulatory agency testing requirements (e.g., UL/CSA, NEBS, EMC/EMI requirements).
  
  
  

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Who We Are

As a Koch company, Molex is a leading supplier of connectors and interconnect components, driving innovation in electronics and supporting industries from automotive to health care and consumer to data communications. The thousands of innovators who work for Molex have made us a global electronics leader. Our experienced people, groundbreaking products and leading-edge technologies help us deliver a wider array of solutions to more markets than ever before.

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