LET’S CONNECT! 

Company Overview:

We are one of the largest manufacturers of interconnect products in the world. We design, manufacture and market electrical, electronic and fiber optic connectors, coaxial and flat-ribbon cable, and interconnect systems. The primary end markets for our products are communications and information processing markets, including cable television, cellular telephone, data communication, information processing systems, aerospace, military, electronics, automotive, rail and other transportation and industrial applications.

Job Description:

This is a senior design engineering position with responsibilities to design and launch new products by coordinating efforts with a global team.  The ideal candidate for this position will possess an excellent professional attitude with good communication skills. Due to the nature of this position a people-oriented person that is dedicated to meeting objective deadlines with a strong basis of mechanical design and engineering experience would be best suited.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Develop concepts on proposals for new or revised products ensuring manufacturing feasibility with thin strip progressive stamping, thin wall injection molding and automated assembly manufacturing processes
• Create marketing/engineering proposal concepts
• Coordinate a global team of engineers in supporting the design, development and testing of new products
• Resolve engineering and design related issues as they may occur
• Check, approve and process drawings, BOMs, Item Masters
• Perform Mechanical simulation and tolerance analysis to ensure the design will work in all possible scenarios
• Work very closely with the Signal Integrity team to ensure the design meets the electrical requirements while taking into account the manufacturing limitations
• Ensure designs meet both cost, performance, manufacturability requirements
• Facilitate design for manufacturability (DFM) with internal and external tooling and process development teams
• Drive product design risk reduction efforts through validation and verification activities such as FEA, Tolerance analysis, prototyping, and verification testing prior to production tooling launch
• Provide engineering drawing, assembly and test specifications, product prototypes and/or customer samples
• Ensure latest models and drawings are updated into WindChill
• Manage component and assembly drawing package creation, release, and modification for tooling build/modification through the ECN process
• Contact with vendors and suppliers to explore cost reduced products or processes which may be applied to new and existing product designs.
• Provide support to manufacturing and quality engineering teams on assigned product lines with failure and root cause analysis for production related quality and design issues.
• Specify materials for molding, stamping and die casting
• Specify plating and plating requirements for components
• Must maintain a good working relationship with outside vendors, tool-room, manufacturing engineering, marketing, sales and quality control.

Qualifications:

• University/College degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent.
• Understanding of progressive stamping and injection molding manufacturing processes
• CAD/CAM experience
• 5+ years engineering experience
• Working experience in 2D/3D CAD system – SolidWorks or ProE
• Good communication skills.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Ability to coordinate a global team in support of product development

Assets:

• Electrical interconnect related design experience
• Direct customer interface experience in technical design related topics
• SolidWorks experience
• Knowledge of connectors or small mechanical/electrical parts
• 1-3 years of Project management skills
• Self-motivated and self-driven individual with a high degree of ownership
• Exposure to small metal parts stamping and moulding
• Proven tolerance analysis skills
• Be legally able to travel in N/A, Europe and Asia
• FEA, simulation and modeling experience
• Geometric tolerancing
• SPC (Basic)

Why Work for Us?

• Competitive pay
• Progressive employee incentive plans
• Excellent benefits coverage, including health, dental, vision & travelers insurance
• Health Care Spending account
• Company pension plan
• Amazing people to work with
• Challenging projects to sink your teeth into
• A flat and transparent organizational culture
• Talent development – we invest in your growth!
• Company Recreation Club offering fun draws with exciting prizes, summer BBQs, holiday parties & more!

Join us today!

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