Principal Launch Engineer

About the role

Your Job Molex is seeking an experienced mechanical Principal Launch Engineer to help solve our biggest challenges in product design, systems integration, customer architecture, and manufacturing with our industry-leading high-speed connector and cable systems for our big data and hyperscale customers.

Responsibilities

• Join a team of professionals who are passionate about delivering the best products in the world to the market.
• Solve our toughest product-related challenges, on our top projects to help the team drive our products reliability faster to the market while we launch our next-generation high-speed connectors and cables.
• Partner with cross-functional team members to solve some of the toughest challenges.
• Lead & Own critical problem-solving activities within Molex, acting as subject matter expert where appropriate, but ultimately the central hub linking the groups together to solve issues.
• Create relationships with senior leadership, cross functional team members and peers through team building activities and growth opportunities operating as One Molex Team.
• Lead Manufacturing and Quality Assurance during product launches.
• Present findings, learnings, and plans internally and to customers to obtain support for changes that may come from the root cause analysis and problem-solving outcomes.
• Retain responsibility for follow-up, documentation, publishing, and expediting all action items of all projects you are working on to solve issues driving Molex to a safe launch.
• Take decisive decisions with sufficient data but do not pontificate while trying to boil the ocean.
• Present your findings as required to a customer audience in a clear and concise format for maximum understanding and impact.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical or Quality Engineering, or a related field.
• 12+ years of experience in electro-mechanical product design, manufacturing experience, quality experience and development with proven technical leadership.
• Strong understanding of engineering tools including FEA, GD&T and Tolerance Analysis.
• Intermediate to advanced level of Signal Integrity understanding.
• Heavy experience with products manufactured using all the following processes: progressive die stamping, injection molding, die casting, plating, laser welding, soldering and insert molding.
• Experience with new technology development and new product launches.
• Six Sigma Background in problem solving – Proven track record of problem solving.
• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering or other related engineering field.
• Siemens NX experience.
• Design experience with high-speed, high-density connectors, cable assemblies, and interconnect products.
• Black Belt in Six Sigma, Shainin Red X.
• Understanding and application of sound project management techniques managing projects to timelines, due dates and deadlines.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated strong capacity for complex problem-solving – Software, Mechanical, Electrical and production manufacturing.
• Competence in communicating technical information to diverse (including non-technical) audiences to drive actionable outcomes.
• A sincere drive for continuous learning and application of new knowledge.
• The ability to plan and execute projects with minimal direction.
• An eager attitude towards tackling new and unfamiliar challenges.
• A leader who can pull teams together, lead & drive actions & positive outcomes.

Skills

• Dynamic problem-solving skills.
• Curiosity.
• Persistence to get to true root cause.

Benefits

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions.

Pay

$150,000-$300,000 per year.

Schedule

Remote potential for right candidate.