**Your Job**
You will be a member of our cross functional design team and work closely with the front-end manufacturing integration engineers and other partners that build our automotive electronic products. These parts are getting faster, denser, smarter, and more complex with every evolution. In this role, you will be responsible for setting the manufacturing strategy, designing the production processes, and managing our tooling and automation suppliers as they build and deliver our lines and tooling. The result or your effort will be the flawless launch of a robust manufacturing process capable of meeting our customers' requirements.
**Our Team**
Molex is part of the Koch group and for 80 years has been driving innovation in electronics, supporting industries from Automotive to Healthcare and Consumer to Data Communications. That's why our customers rely on Molex to help them master change and create the most important breakthroughs through powerful innovation, engineering excellence, end-to-end supply chain optimization, and world-class manufacturing capabilities.
**What You Will Do**
- Participate in DFA/DFM activities along with cross functional team. Provide manufacturing plant's feedback based on lessons learned and continuous improvement efforts.
- Work with front office MIE to put together manufacturing strategy.
- Participate in equipment design reviews. Solicit observations from operators and technicians.
- Improve manufacturing efficiency by analyzing and planning workflow, space requirements, and equipment layout.
- Provides manufacturing decision-making information by calculating production, labor, and material costs; reviewing production schedules; estimating future requirements.
- Keep communication between the plant and the front office MIE and CFT teams up to date. Serve as a voice of BU and front office MIE in the plant.
**Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)**
- 5+ years of experience in the manufacturing process design. Knowledge of various manufacturing assembly processes like screwing, soldering, dispensing, crimping, welding is essential.
- 5 Year working experience in automation design and automated processes. Working experience with common automation elements like various sensors, PLC, vision systems, robots etc.
- Ability to understand customer technical needs, specifications and advanced automotive architecture and effectively provide solutions to both the customer and present these opts to Molex Business Unit
- Experience designing mechanical equipment, fixturing and tooling in CAD
- Must be able to travel up to 20-30%, including potential international travel.
- BS in Industrial, Control System or Manufacturing Engineering or Engineering disciplines.
**What Will Put You Ahead**
- 3+ years in automotive tier-1 advanced manufacturing development and design.
- Experience in cable processing industry is a plus.
**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.
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