Your Job
As a Field Application Engineer (FAE) you will be part of our projects team supporting an OEM at their site several days a week and then in our office when you are not at the client site. You will participate in Customer’s engineering activities; communicate with the Program Team and proactively respond to the Customer’s needs understanding the impact of vehicle structures and interfaces on High-Speed Connectors performance. This will include NPI (New Product introduction), VA/VE Activities, Plant trial runs, Failure Root Cause Analysis and Quality Corrective Actions. A key function of this role is to promote and secure new design wins for high-speed products and technology tied to our Connected Mobility Solution Business Unit.
What You Will Do
- Represent Customer’s interests and position on program issues; manage Customer’s programs and system requirements.
- Coordinate/lead/participate in Customer engineering meetings and internal team meetings associated with Customer projects and represent Molex at Customer meetings including PDE, Sales and Project Management Team meetings.
- Work closely with Customer testing team, efficiently plan and negotiate required
- electrical / mechanical and environmental testing requirements.
- Prepare and issue Customer meeting minutes; prepare and present timely responses to action items.
- Work with Customers plants to ensure program, breakpoints and launch are
- achieved per plan.
- Assist in the creation and review of project timelines and recommend actions to
- ensure Customer deliverables are met per awarded timeline.
- Assist Customer to define system requirements; resolve system issues; work with
- respective “owners”; initiate change requests.
- Participate in FMEA process; recommend additional development and testing
- activities as necessary.
- Coordinate and participate in engineering studies and experiments at the Customer’s assembly plants including SI measurements, EMI/EMC measurements, insertion/retention force, and other related tests.
- Support troubleshooting activities associated with validation testing failures of cable assemblies, and warranty return.
- Support engineering proposals for simplified validation testing based on engineering simulations and analyses.
- Coordinate communication of engineering design studies between Molex Engineering and Customer
- Knowledge sharing and collaboration with other Molex FAE’s
- Make recommendations for improvement of interconnect systems and solutions, resolving customer potential or current issues.
- Assist Product Marketing in providing insightful information on competition solutions reviews, customer system and processes.
- Develop supporting documents / application notes for customers.
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- Bachelors` Degree or higher in Mechanical , Electrical or Mechatronics Engineering or related field.
- Minimum 5 years relevant engineering experience within the electronics industry (especially with a foreign company).
- Good communication skills internally within Molex Group and externally towards Customers and suppliers.
- Ability to travel to customer facilities and other Molex facilities, including some international travel.
- Computer skills: Power point, Excel.
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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.
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