Electrical Project Engineer

About the role

The Electronic Project Engineer (EPE) will work as the primary liaison and engineering lead between Product Managers, Factory-located Engineering, Factory Manufacturing, Software, Hardware and Design Quality Assurance and other teams. The Project Engineer will take ownership of the design, integration, and management of multiple projects through Johnson’s Key Technology, Key Component, and New Product Development processes. Responsibilities will include management of project scope, specification, schedule, cost, quality, hardware, software, integration, POC, communication management. This position calls for a candidate with electronic technical expertise and strong organizational skills that enjoys leading a team to develop, validate, and launch successful, quality products. The right candidate can align and motivate the entire project team toward a goal and will do whatever it takes to overcome any obstacles without alienating others. This is a highly visible position within the company and requires a passionate and motivated individual to drive both product improvement and excellence throughout the product development process. This is a non-supervisory position.

Responsibilities

• Act as Project Manager coordinating a cross-functional, global project team to ensure tasks are completed balancing design, manufacturing, quality, cost, and schedule requirements.
• Function as the technical leader for design and market requirements, communicating these ideas to the project team to set the engineering product specifications
• Communicate between North America Marketing and Asia-based factory engineering, manufacturing, and quality teams on technical issues and customer requirements
• Develop and execute engineering tests and test protocols
• Lead cross-functional meetings with the project team to discuss project status, requirements, and set priorities
• Lead technical design reviews and other engineering meetings to support product development
• A mindset of continuous product improvement, value engineering, and design for manufacturability
• Lead Project planning/definition, DFMEA, design analysis and verification efforts
• Ensure NPD process is followed, Phase gate/milestone management to make sure our design meets the scope, cost, quality and specification, tasks and validation have been executed, tracked and documented.
• Make sure all changes and risks are reported and documented, and lead the team to come out a solution to mitigate the risk or impact of the project.
• Production Transition support: Review quality and inspection data, perform product sample reviews and make design decisions, identify and support value-add / value-engineer opportunities for cost and manufacturing efficiency
• Support and troubleshoot the introduction of new products into mass production, developing functional requirements and test plans.
• International travel: Approximately 2 to 4 trips to overseas facilities in Taiwan, China, and/or Vietnam
• Regular communication with overseas teams outside of typical office hours
• Glue team together, build trust of group

Qualifications

• Education: A bachelor's degree from an ABET-accredited institution in Electronic Engineering
• Experience: Minimum of 5 years Embedded or Electronic Engineering, and electronic project management
• Experience and/or training in systems engineering a plus
• Experience of Embedded Design, embedded software development and debugging
• Experience of Electronic schematics design and validation, provide solutions
• Experience with PCB layout and soldering
• Experience with EMC/EMI requirements and mitigation techniques
• Experience with embedded system integration and best practices