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Your Job Are you looking to make a connection to your career? Come to Molex where we create connections for life. We use innovation, engineering excellence, commitment to quality and reliability and superior customer experience to improve communication, elevate experiences, and engage and inspire people everywhere. Our Datacom and Specialty Solutions team designs an extensive product line serving customers in telecommunications, datacom, hyperscalers , data center and storage applications. Molex is seeking an experienced Supervisor to lead a talented team of Mechanical Design Engineers in our industry leading high-speed connector and cable system product lines for our big data and hyperscale customers. These creative, high-tech, leading-edge components are critical for the existence of data superhighways we use every day and that are changing the world. In this highly visible engineering position, you will lead a team of professionals who are passionate about delivering the best products to the market. What You Will Do • Be a leader in a global organization designing and developing new products and components for the high-speed connector and cable industry. • Interface 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. • Guide your teams design and develop of new internal connector products, including high speed connectors, and connector cable assemblies. • Collaborate with your team to develop cost competitive and creative designs with the signal integrity team and manufacturing that are efficient to manufacture while meeting our high-performance market requirements. • Develop product and application specifications documents for testing that meet our customer requirements and general market expectations. • With your team presenting concepts and detailed requirements internally and to customers to obtain support for development of major new products through technical design reviews. • Support Manufacturing and Quality Assurance during product launches and have travel opportunities to visit our manufacturing sites and meet the global team. • Help lead the organization in identification, evaluation, and implementation of new technologies and methodologies to enable next generation products, improve costs and quality, as well as improve New Product Development (NPD) engineering processes. • Provide application and technical support to consolidate inputs from Marketing, customers, and external consultants into product concepts and detailed requirements. • Follow all product development steps from concept inception, refinement of detailed product design, supply tooling group models and drawings for quoting and tool build. • Collaborating to develop cost competitive and creative designs with the manufacturing, and signal integrity team that are efficient to manufacture while meeting our high-performance market requirements Who You Are (Basic Qualifications) • Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or similar engineering related field • Working knowledge of Finite Element Analysis (FEA), GD&T (Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing ) and other concepts • 5+ years of experience in mechanical product design and development • 2+ years of proven technical leadership (supervisory or mentorship) experience • Experience with product development in the electronics industry What Will Put You Ahead • Siemens NX experience - Experience with advanced parametric 3D CAD systems • Design experience with high-speed, high-density connectors, cable assemblies, and interconnect products • Knowledge of regulatory agency testing requirements (e.g., UL/CSA, NEBS, EMC/EMI requirements) For this role, we anticipate paying $125,000-$150,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form. 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 , aquí , or tu ). #LI-RL1

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Our Datacom and Specialty Solutions team designs an extensive product line serving customers in telecommunications, datacom, hyperscalers , data center and storage applications.
In this highly visible engineering position, you will lead a team of professionals who are passionate about delivering the best products to the market.
Be a leader in a global organization designing and developing new products and components for the high-speed connector and cable industry.
Guide your teams design and develop of new internal connector products, including high speed connectors, and connector cable assemblies.
Collaborate with your team to develop cost competitive and creative designs with the signal integrity team and manufacturing that are efficient to manufacture while meeting our high-performance market requirements.
Develop product and application specifications documents for testing that meet our customer requirements and general market expectations.
With your team presenting concepts and detailed requirements internally and to customers to obtain support for development of major new products through technical design reviews.
Support Manufacturing and Quality Assurance during product launches and have travel opportunities to visit our manufacturing sites and meet the global team.
Provide application and technical support to consolidate inputs from Marketing, customers, and external consultants into product concepts and detailed requirements.
Follow all product development steps from concept inception, refinement of detailed product design, supply tooling group models and drawings for quoting and tool build.
Collaborating to develop cost competitive and creative designs with the manufacturing, and signal integrity team that are efficient to manufacture while meeting our high-performance market requirements
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or similar engineering related field
Working knowledge of Finite Element Analysis (FEA), GD&T (Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing ) and other concepts
5+ years of experience in mechanical product design and development
2+ years of proven technical leadership (supervisory or mentorship) experience
Experience with product development in the electronics industry
What Will Put You Ahead
Siemens NX experience - Experience with advanced parametric 3D CAD systems
Design experience with high-speed, high-density connectors, cable assemblies, and interconnect products
Knowledge of regulatory agency testing requirements (e.g., UL/CSA, NEBS, EMC/EMI requirements)
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 .

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For this role, we anticipate paying $125,000-$150,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

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