Engineering Strategy Lead

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Molex is seeking a candidate for our Engineering Strategy Lead to aid, support, organize and drive linkage our product engineering portfolio managers within our IO division using our engineering tools and systems. This role will focus on efficiency with our engineering team, help close gaps with our processes, communication, and project organization. Our engineering team's products are critical for the data superhighways we use every day changing the world.

Here at Molex we are leading the industry, with our smart data solutions to solve our customers toughest challenges. In this highly visible engineering position, you will join a team of professionals who are passionate to deliver the best products in the world to the market.

Molex brings together innovation and technology to deliver electronic solutions to customers worldwide. With a presence in more than 40 countries, Molex offers a full suite of solutions and services for many markets, including data communications, consumer electronics, industrial, automotive, commercial vehicle and medical.

The primary location for this position is the Arkansas Design Center - Molex offers a very flexible work environment to suit our talent needs.

• Be a team member in a global organization assisting the Product Engineering design team for the high-speed IO cable and connector industry.
• Organizing and leading the customer opportunities between our IO PM (product management) team, technical project managers and engineering portfolio managers
• Focus on making sure our opportunities are properly loaded into our Navigator, kept up to date, work with PM's on prioritization of opportunities, forecasting of opportunities, coordinate with portfolio engineering managers on resource availability and help lead capacity planning activities.
• Work cross functionally with other teams to share this prioritization amongst our engineering leads and other engineering cross functions to drive proper staffing/resourcing plans
• Work with our engineering portfolio leads to a change in the management system we have in place, helping track/coordinate large changes - build linkage with key stake holders for change awareness within the BU and our NX/Teamcenter suite of tools
• Owner of our engineering team, Jira request sites for various services that need executed, maintain metrics, report outs and note gaps and drive closure
• Help track and manage with portfolio leads key RCA instances with our design center and plant operations team
• Help drive print and eCAD standardizations amongst our engineering teams, this includes application specifications, product specifications, 2D prints, 3D customer models
• Be a team member in a global organization designing and developing leading edge new products and components for the high-speed cable and connector industry.
• You will be interfacing 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
• Work with engineering mechanical, signal integrity and lab test team to build and maintain an inventory of test boards 2D, 3D files along with physical inventory
• Support Manufacturing and Quality Assurance during product launches and have travel opportunities to visit our manufacturing sites and meet the global team
• Create relationships with senior leadership, cross functional team members and peers through team building activities and growth opportunities operating as One Molex Team

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent
• 6+ years' experience in mechanical product design, product design life cycle and development with proven technical leadership
• 1+ year experience in project management or PMP certification
• Strong desire to learn, bring solid energy, seeking challenge and assert yourself as a leader in a cross functional team environment

• Master's degree or other related engineering field and or MBA
• Siemens NX experience
• Experience with managing between cross functional teams and…