Advanced Quality Planning Engineer

About the role

We are looking for an Advanced Quality Planning (AQP) Engineer who will work closely with the Product Development team members developing and maintaining a Quality Plan in order to manage and mitigate project risks to ensure a flawless Product Launch that meets customers’ cost, quality, and delivery requirements. The ideal candidate will have experience working through quality issues early in the design phases.

Our Team

Molex creates connections for life by enabling technologies that transform the future and improve lives. With presence in more than 40 countries, Molex offers a complete range of connectivity products, services and solutions for the data communications, medical, industrial, automotive and consumer electronics industries. Our Datacom and Specialty Solutions team designs an extensive product line serving customers in telecommunications, datacom, hyperscalers, data center and storage applications.

What You Will Do

• Quality Plan Development: Ensure the project Quality Plan for new products and product modifications are focused on the voice of customers and all project quality deliverables are completed in a timely manner.
• Risk Analysis: Participate during front-end product, tool and assembly design reviews and Design and/or Process FMEA reviews by providing inputs on internal and external quality history.
• Facilitate and review reliability test plan.
• Metrology and qualification of new or modified parts: Facilitate the development of measurement plans and methods and lead the disposition of new products.
• Assist plant quality in design of gauges and necessary inspection fixtures.
• Perform measurement analysis, capability studies and statistical analysis to quality tool or process.
• Work with plant Advanced Quality Planning Engineer or Quality Engineer to develop safe launch plan to protect the customer and reduce errors.
• Ensures customer required documentation relating to customer acceptance of new products and product modifications are completed.
• Supplier Approval: Reviews and approves supplier product specific documentation on new and modified purchased components.
• Works with supplier quality engineers to ensure compliance.
• Help problem solve and resolve new product related customer complaints or internal quality complaints during launch.
• Support efforts for prevention of repeat issues and provide systemic improvements to the Product Development Processes to reduce New Products QNs.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline
• Minimum of 3 years of quality experience
• Experience with new product introduction projects
• Willing and able to travel ~10% domestically and globally
• Available for weekday evening calls to collaborate with global peers

What Will Put You Ahead

• ASQC Certified (CQE)
• Quality Systems experience - ISO 9001 or RS 16949
• GD&T analysis experience
• Electronics manufacturing
• Experience with Minitab
• Green/Black belt certified

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

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.

Our Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts
• Life Insurance
• Disability
• Retirement
• Paid Vacation/Time Off
• Education Assistance
• May also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance

Equal Opportunities

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