Koch Industries

Project Engineer - Connector Design

Koch Industries$80K — $120K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Minimum of 7 years of product design experience in the automotive industry, particularly with electrical connector design.
  • Strong mechanical aptitude and proven ability to lead product design development projects.
  • Excellent problem-solving and critical thinking skills.
  • Experience in managing engineering work plans and timelines effectively.
  • In-depth understanding of materials and engineering processes like injection molding and stamping.
  • Background in mentoring and guiding less experienced engineers.
  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the documentation of project scope, requirements, and feasibility.
  • Collaborate with product management to gather and analyze customer needs.
  • Drive technical discussions with customers to showcase Molex's capabilities.
  • Oversee concept development to ensure manufacturability and cost efficiency.
  • Define and implement risk mitigation strategies, including DFMEA and FEA studies.
  • Create detailed product models and drawings using GD&T methodology.
  • Manage the Engineering Change Management (ECM) processes and update documentation.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts available.
  • Life insurance and disability benefits.
  • Retirement plans to secure financial future.
  • Paid vacation and time-off to maintain work-life balance.
  • Educational assistance to promote continuous learning.
  • Potential support for parental leave and adoption assistance.
Full Job Description
Are you an experienced engineer with a passion for innovation and product design? Molex is seeking a Project Engineer to join our dynamic team. In this role, you will lead projects from concept to execution, ensuring design meet functional needs, are manufacturable, cost-effective, and high-quality. Leveraging your expertise to tackle complex challenges, you will define strategies for analytical studies, develop cutting-edge products, and mentor less experienced engineers in a collaborative environment.

Your responsibilities will include capturing customer needs, designing products, developing risk mitigation plans, and leading root cause analysis. Your contributions will directly impact project success and drive the growth of our engineering capabilities. If you are ready to advance your career and be part of a team that values creativity and technical excellence, apply for the Senior Design Engineer position at Molex. Join us in shaping the future of engineering solutions.

What You Will Do:
  • Lead documentation of project scope, requirements, feasibility, and engineering work plans.
  • Collaborate with product management to capture and analyze customer needs for new technology and product development.
  • Lead technical discussions with customers, building relationships on Molex's technical capabilities and ability to solve problems.
  • Lead concept development, ensure designs are manufacturable, cost-effective, and meet requirements.
  • Define strategies for risk mitigation and lead DFMEA, FEA, tolerance analysis, and other analytical studies.
  • Create feature/product models and drawings using GD&T methodology, ensuring accurate dimensioning and tolerancing
  • Manage the Engineering Change Management (ECM) process and review documentation updates made by less experienced engineers.
  • Develop test plans (DVP&R) to validate product performance, analyze results using statistical methods, and perform DOE and Capability Studies
  • Lead root cause analysis for complex issues and provide technical mentoring; lead technical reviews with internal and external teams.
  • Lead a team from a technical standpoint. Delegating tasks, monitoring the health of the project, and mentoring others technically.

Who You Are:
  • Minimum of 7 years of product design experience in the automotive industry, with expertise in electrical connector design.
  • Proven ability to lead product design development products with strong mechanical aptitude.
  • Proven Problem-Solving leadership & strong critical thinking abilities.
  • Experience in creating and maintaining engineering work plans and timelines for the engineering team.
  • High level understanding of resins, metals, engineering tools, processes, and manufacturing techniques such as injection molding, stamping, plating, and assembly.
  • Experience providing technical mentoring to less experienced engineers.
  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related field
  • Ability to travel approximately 10% of the time


What Puts You Ahead:
  • Ability to contribute to the product roadmap from a technical perspective. Ability to visualize the potential of a product and adapt as new information is gathered.
  • A Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related field


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 .

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.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

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.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information.

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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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