Engineering Strategy Lead

Your Job

What You Will Do

• Be a team member in a global organization assisting the Product Engineering design team for the high-speed IO cable and connector industry.
• Organizing and leading the customer opportunities between our IO PM (product management) team, technical project managers and engineering portfolio managers
• Focus on making sure our opportunities are properly loaded into our Navigator, kept up to date, work with PM's on prioritization of opportunities, forecasting of opportunities, coordinate with portfolio engineering managers on resource availability and help lead capacity planning activities.
• Work cross functionally with other teams to share this prioritization amongst our engineering leads and other engineering cross functions to drive proper staffing/resourcing plans
• Work with our engineering portfolio leads to a change in the management system we have in place, helping track/coordinate large changes - build linkage with key stake holders for change awareness within the BU and our NX/Teamcenter suite of tools
• Owner of our engineering team, Jira request sites for various services that need executed, maintain metrics, report outs and note gaps and drive closure
• Help track and manage with portfolio leads key RCA instances with our design center and plant operations team
• Help drive print and eCAD standardizations amongst our engineering teams, this includes application specifications, product specifications, 2D prints, 3D customer models
• Be a team member in a global organization designing and developing leading edge new products and components for the high-speed cable and connector industry.
• You will be interfacing with professional cross functional team members in our signal integrity team, manufacturing integration team, program management, sales organization, state of the art test laboratories, high tech R&D model shop, manufacturing and senior leadership teams
• Work with engineering mechanical, signal integrity and lab test team to build and maintain an inventory of test boards 2D, 3D files along with physical inventory
• Support Manufacturing and Quality Assurance during product launches and have travel opportunities to visit our manufacturing sites and meet the global team
• Create relationships with senior leadership, cross functional team members and peers through team building activities and growth opportunities operating as One Molex Team

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent
• 6+ years' experience in mechanical product design, product design life cycle and development with proven technical leadership
• 1+ year experience in project management or PMP certification
• Strong desire to learn, bring solid energy, seeking challenge and assert yourself as a leader in a cross functional team environment

What Will Put You Ahead

• Master's degree or other related engineering field and or MBA
• Siemens NX experience
• Experience with managing between cross functional teams and program management skills
• Design experience with high-speed, high-density connectors, cable assemblies, and interconnect products
• Good understanding and practical knowledge of Six Sigma quality development tools and principles (DOE, FMEA, etc.)
• Solid working knowledge of engineering systems, Microsoft PowerPoint, excel and ability to crunch data into a digestible easy to understand format

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

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, aqui, or tu).

#LI-RL1