Description

Your Job

Execute the strategy and product development vision for Vehicle Antenna Systems within the North American automotive industry. This is an opportunity for someone with a technical education and a history of independent action to get experience on the commercial side of the business while capitalizing on their technical abilities.

Our Team

You’ll be a key contributor to the product management team that is responsible for responding to customer quotes and ensuring the long-term financial success of the largest supplier of automotive antennas in the US. We have a positive team atmosphere and in the Grand Blanc office where you’ll be working closely with experienced professionals in various engineering disciplines (RF, electrical circuits, mechanical and manufacturing) as well as purchasing, manufacturing, program management and quality. It’s an excellent opportunity to broaden your horizons across new products and domains.

What You Will Do

• Participate in quoting efforts as the technical liaison with engineering.
• • Coordinate Customer Tech Reviews with engineering.
  • • Lead pre-reviews.
    • Generate exceptions list.
    • Summarize product performance.
  • Compare and contrast specifications across quotes.
  • Understand and vet the values from purchasing, manufacturing, and engineering.
  • • Investments
    • Variable Costs
  • Support financial models.
  • Facilitate teardowns / benchmarking.
  • • Coordinate (potentially conduct tests) and evaluations.
    • Prepare reports.
  • CROSS POLLINATE: Support international collaboration and apply best ideas across regions.
  • Promote communication.
• Adhere to the values of Koch Industries Principle Based Management: Integrity, Stewardship and Compliance, Principled Entrepreneurship, Transformation, Knowledge, Humility, Respect, Self-Actualize
• Prioritize efforts based upon “Principled Entrepreneurship” and economic thinking.
• • Where will your actions have the biggest bang for the buck
  • Always ask the question of “what does this do to the business case,” if it is negative, how do we mitigate, how do we offset.
• Exhibit Leadership traits in the principles of:
  
• • Knowledge
  • • Challenge- If something doesn’t look right, stop, and investigate.
    • Subject matter expertise to perform quick financial calculations on events impacting the variable cost.
    • Longer term – build financial models to improve estimating accuracy.
  • Integrity, Humility and Respect
  • • Speak up if you have doubts.
    • Challenge the ideas, not the individual.
    • Promote accountability but in the end, it will be “we” have a problem, not “you” have a problem.
• General administrative work as required for the role.
• Position is located in Grand Blanc MI. In order to support casual and formal collaboration, you will work on-site for the majority of the week. There will be collaboration with EU (as early as 7am) and Asia (as late as 10pm) but those hours can be used to offset on site time [i.e., take Friday afternoon off].
• Occasional travel includes Mexico: 1-2x/year and trip to EU or Asia every 2-3 years

Who You Are

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Technical Field. Mechanical Engineering or RF Electrical is preferred.
• 3 years of relevant experience as an engineer responsible for the detailed design of a product that went into high volume production.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze information and solve problems by providing successful solutions.
• Experience doing presentations on projects and reporting out to all levels.
• Successful experiences in these areas via professional or extra-curricular activities:
• • • Entrepreneurship
    • Leadership
    • Organization / Program management
    • Communication – both verbal and written
• Desire to learn and an interest in advanced telecommunications technologies (5G FR1, High Precision GNSS, Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth, CV2X)

What Will Put You Ahead

• Master’s degree in engineering
• High level GPA / academic record

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
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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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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.

Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, all offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please visit the following website for additional information: http://www.kochcareers.com/doc/Everify.pdf