Koch Industries

Change Management Engineer - Optical Solutions

Koch Industries$150K — $240K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BS in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.
  • 5+ years of experience in product engineering, manufacturing engineering, quality engineering, or change management, particularly with optical transceivers.
  • Knowledge of ECO/ECN processes, product lifecycle management (PLM), and configuration control.
  • Experience with PLM systems (Agile, Windchill, Teamcenter, Arena) and ERP systems (SAP preferred).
  • Strong project management and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

  • Own and drive the Engineering Change Order (ECO) process for optical transceiver products.
  • Coordinate cross-functional review and approval of design, firmware, component, process, and supplier changes.
  • Assess impacts of proposed changes on technical, quality, reliability, manufacturing, inventory, and customer levels.
  • Manage product configurations, revisions, BOMs, and documentation within PLM and ERP systems.
  • Lead Change Review Board (CRB) activities ensuring timely implementation of approved changes.
  • Coordinate qualification and validation activities to support product and process changes.
  • Work closely with various teams for effective implementation of changes.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts.
  • Life insurance and disability benefits.
  • Retirement plan options.
  • Paid vacation and time off.
  • Educational assistance and possible infertility, parental, and adoption support.
Full Job Description
Your Job

Molex is seeking a highly organized and technically proficient Change Management Engineer to manage engineering change control activities across our portfolio of optical transceiver products. This role is responsible for managing all changes related to the design and manufacture of an optical transceiver product throughout its product lifecycle, ensuring those changes are properly assessed, reviewed, approved, communicated, and implemented without disrupting quality, delivery, reliability, or customer commitments.

The ideal candidate combines strong technical knowledge of optical transceivers with excellent project management and cross-functional leadership skills. This role serves as the primary coordinator between engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, operations, and customer-facing teams to ensure effective execution of change management processes.

What You Will Do

  • Own and drive the Engineering Change Order (ECO) process for optical transceiver products.
  • Coordinate cross-functional review and approval of design, firmware, component, process, and supplier changes.
  • Assess technical, quality, reliability, manufacturing, inventory, and customer impacts of proposed changes.
  • Manage product configurations, revisions, BOMs, and documentation within PLM and ERP systems.
  • Lead Change Review Board (CRB) activities and ensure timely implementation of approved changes.
  • Coordinate qualification and validation activities required to support product and process changes.
  • Work closely with Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Quality, Procurement, and Manufacturing teams to implement change in the system
  • Ensure manufacturing documentation, test procedures, and quality plans are updated before production release.
  • Drive change management metrics, process improvements, and best practices.


Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
  • BS in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related technical field.
  • At least 5+ years of experience in product engineering, manufacturing engineering, quality engineering, or change management. Experience with optical transceivers, optical components and optical modules is highly desirable.
  • Working knowledge of ECO/ECN processes, product lifecycle management (PLM), and configuration control.
  • Experience with PLM systems (Agile, Windchill, Teamcenter, Arena) and ERP systems (SAP preferred).
  • Strong project management, communication, and organizational skills.


For this role, we anticipate paying $150,000 - $240,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

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.

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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