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Lead Engineer, Advanced Quality Planning
Location(s)
Lisle, Illinois
Company
Molex
Career Field
Engineering
Job Number
187418
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As a Lead Engineer, AQP, you will serve as a key technical and strategic leader within the Product Development organization, driving Advanced Quality Planning activities across complex new product introductions and major engineering initiatives. In this role, you will influence cross-functional teams to proactively identify and mitigate risk, strengthen execution discipline, and ensure flawless product launches that meet customer expectations for Quality, Delivery, and Cost.
This position requires a highly experienced quality leader who can operate beyond transactional execution and drive broader organizational impact. The ideal candidate is someone who challenges the status quo, brings strategic thinking to complex problems, holds teams accountable to commitments, and influences decisions across engineering, operations, suppliers, and leadership teams.
This role is also viewed as part of the leadership pipeline for future supervisory responsibilities. Success in this role requires strong technical depth, business acumen, leadership presence, and the ability to elevate organizational performance through influence and accountability.
Work Arrangement:
This is an on-site role requiring five days per week in the office.
This role involves working with global teams and suppliers in Asia, so you'll occasionally participate in early morning or evening meetings approximately two to three times each week. Flexible scheduling is supported to help balance these commitments.
Quarterly travel to Asia is expected, with trips typically lasting up to two consecutive weeks to support supplier development, manufacturing readiness, and product launch activities.
What You Will Do
Drive Advanced Quality Planning strategy and execution for complex new product introductions, product changes, and manufacturing transfers. Provide leadership across qualification planning, launch readiness, Safe Launch activities, control plans, and risk management initiatives.
Lead and influence cross-functional teams across Product Design, Manufacturing, Supplier Quality, Procurement, and Operations to ensure alignment, ownership, and timely execution of critical deliverables. Challenge assumptions, escalate risks when needed, and drive accountability at all organizational levels.
Lead high-impact risk assessments and structured problem-solving activities including DFMEA/PFMEA, Failure Analysis, 8D investigations, process reviews, and corrective/preventive actions. Identify systemic gaps and implement sustainable solutions that improve organizational capability.
Bring a systems-level perspective to product and process development by identifying trends, connecting upstream/downstream impacts, and driving decisions that improve long-term product quality, manufacturability, scalability, and operational performance.
Champion continuous improvement initiatives focused on process capability, launch execution, quality performance, operational efficiency, and customer satisfaction while supporting compliance to ISO, IATF, Lean Six Sigma, and EH&S requirements.
Mentor engineers and cross-functional team members on AQP best practices, risk-based thinking, problem solving, and execution discipline. Help establish stronger processes, elevate technical rigor, and support the development of future quality leaders.
Partner closely with global suppliers and international teams through regular off-hours collaboration and periodic travel to Asia to support supplier readiness, issue resolution, manufacturing qualifications, and launch execution.
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
What Will Put You Ahead
For this role, we anticipate paying $100,000 to $110,000 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
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, aquí, or tu).
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