Koch Industries

Advanced Manufacturing Engineer

Koch Industries$92K — $110K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BS in Mechanical, Industrial, Control System, Manufacturing Engineering or similar engineering discipline
  • 5+ years of experience in manufacturing process design, with a focus on electronics
  • Experience collaborating with suppliers to develop automated equipment
  • Strong understanding of customer technical needs and advanced automotive architecture
  • Ability to travel up to 20-30%, including international travel

Responsibilities

  • Participate in DFA/DFM activities with cross-functional teams
  • Develop manufacturing strategy based on proposed designs and performance metrics
  • Work with equipment vendors during design, testing, and qualification phases
  • Contribute actively to equipment performance and acceptance runs
  • Analyze and plan workflow, space requirements, and equipment layout for efficiency improvements
  • Calculate production costs and review production schedules for decision-making
  • Represent Business Unit interests in the plant and gather operator feedback

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts
  • Life insurance, disability insurance, and AD&D coverage
  • 401(k) retirement plan with company contributions
  • Paid vacation and time off
  • Educational assistance
  • Support resources for physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing
Full Job Description
Your Job

Molex CMS product team is seeking an Advanced Manufacturing Engineer to develop and launch manufacturing processes for the large pipeline of new products we are bringing in our plants across the globe. Ideal candidate is a smart, quick, positive, and confident collaborator. As an Advanced Manufacturing Engineer, you know the exhilaration that goes along with the first run-at-rate, and you know the pride of building a zero-defect process. You are a great performer. If you share our passion for creating value, if you are entrepreneurial and customer focused, we would like you to join our team.

You will be a member of our cross functional design team and work closely with the other partners that build our automotive electronic products. These parts are getting faster, denser, smarter, and more complex with every evolution. In this role, you will be responsible for setting the manufacturing strategy, designing the production processes, and managing our tooling and automation suppliers as they build and deliver our lines and tooling. The result or your effort will be the flawless launch of a robust manufacturing process capable of meeting our customers' requirements.

Location- Grand Blanc, Michigan with onsite work arrangements.

What You Will Do

  • Understand the overall project proposal. Participate in DFA/DFM activities along with cross functional team. Consider manufacturing plant's feedback based on their lessons learned and continuous improvement efforts.
  • Based of volumes, proposed design, and performance metrics, put together appropriate manufacturing strategy.
  • Work with equipment vendors during equipment design, development, testing, and qualification. Collaborate & apply knowledge of product design, fabrication, assembly, tooling, and materials. Actively contribute to equipment performance and acceptance runs.
  • Participate in equipment design reviews. Solicit observations from operators and technicians.
  • Improve manufacturing efficiency by analyzing and planning workflow, space requirements, and equipment layout.
  • Provides manufacturing decision-making information by calculating production, labor, and material costs; reviewing production schedules; estimating future requirements.
  • Serve as a voice of Business Unit in the plant and make sure plants' feedback is considered by the Business Unit.


Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

  • BS in Mechanical, Industrial, Control System, Manufacturing Engineering or similar Engineering disciplines.
  • 5+ years of experience in manufacturing process design, preferably with exposure to electronics manufacturing processes.
  • Experience with suppliers to build automated equipment. Understanding of automation components to build a manufacturing process with desired performance metrics is necessary .
  • Ability to understand customer technical needs, specifications and advanced automotive architecture.
  • Must be able to travel up to 20-30%, including potential international travel.


What Will Put You Ahead

  • Master's Degree in Engineering discipline.
  • 3 years in automotive electronics manufacturing tier-1 advanced manufacturing development and design.
  • Experience with screwing, dispensing, soldering, heat staking processes is desirable.
  • Experience designing mechanical equipment, fixturing and tooling in CAD.


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. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

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 .

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

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About Koch Industries

Koch Industries, Inc. is an American privately-held multinational conglomerate corporation based in Wichita, Kansas. Its subsidiaries are involved in the manufacturing, refining, and distribution of petroleum, chemicals, energy, fiber, intermediates and polymers, minerals, fertilizers, pulp and paper, chemical technology equipment, ranching, finance, commodities trading, and investing. Koch owns Infor, Invista, Georgia-Pacific, Molex, Flint Hills Resources, Koch Pipeline, Koch Fertilizer, Koch Minerals, Matador Cattle Company, i360, and Guardian Industries. The firm employs 120,000 people in 60 countries, with about half of its business in the United States. The company is the largest non-Canadian landowner in the Athabasca oil sands. With annual revenues of $110 billion by 2014, the company is the largest privately held company in the United States. In 2007, it was ranked as the largest privately held company. If Koch Industries had been a public company in 2013, it would have ranked 17th in the Fortune 500. The company was founded by its namesake, Fred C. Koch, in 1940 after he developed an innovative crude oil refining process. Fred C. Koch died in 1967 and his majority interest in the company was split amongst his four sons. In June 1983, after a bitter legal and boardroom battle, the stakes of Frederick R. Koch and William "Bill" Koch were bought out for $1.1 billion and Charles Koch and David Koch became majority owners in the company. Charles owns 42% of the company; trusts for the benefit of Elaine Tettemer Marshall and Elaine's children, Preston Marshall and E. Pierce Marshall Jr., own 16% of the company. The heirs of David Koch, who died on August 23, 2019, own the balance, 42%, of the corporation.
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