Development Process Engineer

Your Job

The Development Process Engineer develops and implements cost-effective manufacturing strategies for new products to meet customers' production and delivery requirements and works cross-functionally with global teams to ensure robust product design and manufacturability in low and high-volume production.

Our Team

At Molex, we create connections for life by enabling technologies that transform the future and improve lives. With a presence in more than 40 countries, we offer a complete range of connectivity products, services, and solutions across various industries, including data communications, medical, industrial, automotive, and consumer electronics.

Our Datacom and Specialty Solutions (DSS) team specializes in providing signal integrity solutions essential for building reliable communications equipment, catering to telecommunications, datacom, hyperscalers, cloud, data center, and storage applications. We continue to innovate to meet the demands of next-generation markets.

What You Will Do

• Lead a cross-functional team of product, signal integrity, and tooling engineers, along with plant manufacturing engineers, to ensure robust process design and manufacturability for both low and high-volume production.
• Identify design limitations and recommend improvements to meet Design for Manufacturability and inspection standards, enabling successful new product launches.
• Drive early-stage proof-of-concept activities to validate new technologies or design concepts, reducing risk and enhancing profitability.
• Develop manufacturing strategies and manage tooling development to deliver quality products on time and within cost targets, collaborating with product, marketing, finance, and senior leadership using Global Cost Analysis (GCA).
• Partner with tooling engineers to transfer processes and equipment to NPI and manufacturing plants, and support debug efforts with plant manufacturing engineers to ensure product performance meets customer expectations.
• Support production plant engineering teams in ramp up of new processes as well as required capacity additions.
• Support global manufacturing GLSS initiatives to improve cost efficiency and quality by optimizing manufacturing processes.
• Adhere to and contribute to Molex's Total Quality Management (TQM), Six Sigma, ISO standards, and Environmental, Health, and Safety (EH&S) management systems by following established policies and procedures.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

What Will Put You Ahead

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.

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).

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