Senior Advanced Quality Planning Engineer

Your Job

We are looking for an Advanced Quality Planning (AQP) Engineer will work closely with the Product Development team members developing and maintaining a Quality Plan in order to manage and mitigate project risk to ensure a flawless Product Launch that meets customers cost, quality, delivery requirements. The ideal candidate will have experience working through quality issues early in the design phases.

Our Team

Molex creates connections for life by enabling technologies that transform the future and improve lives. With a presence in more than 40 countries, Molex offers a complete range of connectivity products, services and solutions for the data communications, medical, industrial, automotive and consumer electronics industries. Our Datacom and Specialty Solutions team designs an extensive product line serving customers in telecommunications, datacom, hyperscalers, data center and storage applications.

What You Will Do

• Quality Plan Development: Ensure the project Quality Plan for new products and product modifications are focused on the voice of customer and all project quality deliverables are completed in a timely manner.
• Risk Analysis: Participate during front-end product, tool and assembly design reviews and Design and/or Process FMEA reviews by providing inputs on internal and external quality history.
• Facilitate and review reliability test plan.
• Metrology and qualification of new or modified parts: Facilitate the development of measurement plans and methods and lead the disposition of new products.
• Assist plant quality in design of gauges and necessary inspection fixtures.
• Perform measurement analysis, capability studies and statistical analysis to quality tool or process.
• Work with plant Advanced Quality Planning Engineer or Quality Engineer to develop safe launch plan to protect the customer and reduce errors.
• Ensures customer required documentation relating to customer acceptance of new products and product modifications are completed.
• Supplier Approval: Reviews and approves supplier product specific documentation on new and modified purchased components.
• Works with supplier quality engineer to ensure compliance.
• Help problem solve and resolve new product related customer complaints or internal quality complaints during launch.
• Support efforts for prevention of repeat issues and provide systemic improvements to the Product Development Processes to reduce New Products QNs.
• Mentorship and Coaching: Mentor and coach junior engineers and team members to foster their development and maximize their contributions.
• Team Leadership: Lead project teams in quality planning and risk analysis, ensuring alignment with the company's vision and values.
• Strategic Planning: Collaborate with senior leadership to develop and implement strategic quality initiatives.
• Continuous Improvement: Drive continuous improvement initiatives within the quality function, leveraging knowledge and comparative advantage principles.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering discipline
• At least 5 years of quality experience
• Experience with new product introduction projects

What Will Put You Ahead

• ASQC Certified (CQE)
• Quality Systems experience - ISO 9001 or RS 16949
• GD&T analysis experience
• Electronics manufacturing
• Experience with Minitab
• Green/Black belt certified

For this role, we anticipate paying $100,000 - $130,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

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Hiring Philosophy

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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.

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.

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.

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. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here , aquí , or tu ).

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