Koch Industries

NPI Process Engineer

Koch Industries$80K — $95K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Technical degree or hands-on experience in progressive stamping or similar manufacturing processes
  • Ability to interpret engineering drawings and tooling prints
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office applications (Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
  • Experience collaborating across functions to solve technical problems
  • Project management experience preferred

Responsibilities

  • Lead development and validation of new stamping tools for product launches
  • Provide expertise during tooling design reviews for manufacturability and capability
  • Collaborate with teams to optimize tooling concepts before production
  • Troubleshoot and validate tooling and processes for production readiness
  • Support documentation such as process flows, PFMEAs, and control plans
  • Investigate and resolve complex process challenges with corrective actions
  • Manage multiple projects to meet timelines and deliverables

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision coverage
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts
  • Life insurance and disability coverage
  • Retirement plans
  • Paid vacation and time off
  • Educational assistance
  • Infertility assistance and paid parental leave options
Full Job Description
Your Job

Molex is seeking a NPI Process Engineer - Progressive Stamping to support New Product & Innovation (NPI) activities within our Lincoln, Nebraska facility. In this role, you will serve as a technical expert in progressive stamping processes, partnering with tooling designers, product development teams, and manufacturing operations to develop, qualify, and launch new programs. You will be responsible for process development, tooling validation, troubleshooting, and driving projects from concept through production release while ensuring quality, efficiency, and operational excellence.

What You Will Do

  • Lead the development, qualification, and validation of new stamping tools and manufacturing processes for new product introductions
  • Provide technical expertise during tooling and process design reviews, offering input on manufacturability, process capability, tooling functionality, and stamping best practices
  • Collaborate with tooling designers, process engineers, and cross-functional teams to optimize tooling concepts and stamping processes before production launch
  • Assemble, troubleshoot, validate, and refine new tooling and processes to ensure readiness for production release
  • Support development and maintenance of process documentation, including process flows, PFMEAs, control plans, and related quality documentation
  • Investigate complex process and tooling challenges using structured problem-solving techniques and implement sustainable corrective actions
  • Manage multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring milestones, timelines, and deliverables are achieved
  • Partner with manufacturing teams to transition qualified tooling and processes into production while providing technical guidance and training as needed
  • Participate in design reviews, continuous improvement initiatives, and process optimization efforts to improve quality, efficiency, and cost competitiveness
  • Utilize engineering drawings, tooling prints, and CAD models to evaluate tooling performance, identify improvement opportunities, and support troubleshooting efforts
  • Maintain a safe work environment and support environmental, quality, and operational excellence initiatives
  • Apply Principle Based Management® and collaborate effectively across engineering, tooling, quality, and manufacturing teams


Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

  • Technical degree OR hands-on experience in progressive stamping, tooling, machining, or a related manufacturing process
  • Experience interpreting engineering drawings, tooling prints, and technical documentation
  • Experience using Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
  • Experience working cross-functionally to solve technical problems and support project execution


What Will Put You Ahead

  • Experience supporting New Product & Innovation (NPI) or new process development activities
  • Tool and die, machining, or tooling design experience
  • Experience with process qualification, validation, and troubleshooting of stamping tools
  • Experience developing PFMEAs, process flows, control plans, or other quality documentation
  • Experience with CAD software such as Siemens NX, Creo, Pro/Engineer, or similar platforms
  • Project management experience
  • Quality experience including 8D problem solving methodologies
  • Experience supporting high-speed precision stamping operations


This role is not eligible for VISA Sponsorship.

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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