Senior Product Design Engineer

Your Job

As a Senior Engineer in Product Design, your primary focus will be driving the successful development of new product development projects. This involves researching and developing ideas for new and improved designs, creating design specifications and proposals that meet customer requirements, and leading design activities from concept to market introduction. Additionally, you will provide design support for product modifications, cost reductions, and manufacturing process improvements.

Our Team

You will work within the Datacom and Specialty Solutions Division, collaborating with departments involved in new product development and manufacturing, such as Product Marketing, Product & Project Management, and Advanced Quality Planning. Your role will also involve interacting with customers and suppliers across different time zones and providing on-site support when necessary.

What You Will Do

1. Product Proposal Phase

• Review customer requirements.
• Provide preliminary design feasibility review.
• Benchmark competitors’ designs.
• Generate design proposals in the form of CAD models, drawings, sketches or the like.
• Review and determine feasibility of design solution(s)/proposal(s).
• Request patent opinion from Legal.
• Make models or mock-ups as required.
• Check design against Marketing and/or Customer requirements.
• Present design proposal(s) to Sales, Marketing and/or Customers.

Product Design Phase

• Establish design & development plan.
• Create project file.
• Review additional inputs and/or changes in customer requirements.
• Request patent opinion from Legal (if not done in the prior phase).
• Create design CAD models, sales and engineering drawings, and other design specifications such as product, material and packaging specifications.
• Perform design verification activities per design & development plan.
• Conduct design FMEA.
• Conduct design reviews to determine feasibility of design and design for manufacturability.
• Confirm design meets Marketing and/or Customer requirements.
• Release final design specifications for tooling and process design & development.
• Establish product reliability/screen test plans with Reliability.
• Review and update design & development plan.

Product / Process Development Phase

• Maintain product drawings and other design output documents; distribute changes per ECR/ECN procedures as required.
• Disposition first article inspection reports.
• Approve or disapprove product deviation requests.
• Submit product for reliability/screen tests.
• Submit product for agency approvals (UL, CSA, VDE, TUV).
• Review and update design FMEA.
• Review reliability/screen test results for conformance to product specifications and take action to resolve issues, if any.
• Review engineering verification samples, documents and test reports for customer approval.
• Review product performance status and seek customer’s approval
• Update design & development plan.

Production Phase

• Provide design supports for product modifications and/or extensions.
• Provide design supports for manufacturing process improvements.
• Approve or reject product deviation requests.
• Participate in cost reduction activities.
• Respond to customer complaints on design-related issues.
• Maintain and safe-keep project file.
• Apply lessons learnt on new and/or improved designs.

Other Responsibilities

• Provide consultations to Sales and/or Marketing on design-related matters.
• Assist Purchasing in new products/vendors qualification.
• Support Quality Department in handling quality claims.
• Support Operations in manufacturing process improvements.
• Provide training for other Product Design engineering personnel or any others as assigned.
• Assist or lead department support and focal point activities when required.
• Other duties as assigned by Management.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Degree or Diploma in Engineering.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in product design and development.
• Proficient in product design engineering knowledge and design control & management.
• Strong skills in creativity/innovation, critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making.
• Excellent communication and leadership abilities.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Mechanical and/or Manufacturing Engineering background.
• Experience in a connector design and manufacturing environment.
• Proficiency in Siemens NX, Teamcenter, and Polarion.
• Design experience with high-speed interconnect products.
• Proven track record in using engineering design and analysis tools effectively.

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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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