Lead Material Component Engineer
Listed on 2026-01-11
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Engineering
Materials Engineer, Manufacturing Engineer, Quality Engineering, Electrical Engineering
We empower smarter business operations by connecting equipment, software, and services to protect, control and optimize assets within electrical infrastructures. The business provides customers, across various industries, with end-to-end product and service solutions ensuring the reliability and protection of their electrical infrastructure. We provide the latest industry insights and technology to develop solutions needed to meet customers evolving challenges, including innovative critical power solutions designed for high reliability and performance.
Our culture is one of quality and operational excellence fueled and supported by talented people, tools and processes, and expertise.
The Lead Material Component Engineer –will provide Material Component guidance for Power Supply Design Team in support of telecommunications, high-end computing, datacenter, industrial applications and other mission critical applications. Support Component Standardization and evaluate new components in the product development process from concept realization through introduction of product into high volume production. These projects will include New Product Introduction, Direct Material Productivity, resolving customer/supplier issues, and sustaining engineering of existing products.
Quarterly and Annual Reviews of our Supply Base is part of the role’s goals. Capturing actions to address component issues and improving supplier quality through 8D – Root Cause, FMEA, CAPA and Ishikawa quality tools.
The Lead Material Component Engineer works with key Commodities directly impacting Safety Agency approvals (UL, CSA, CCC, VDE, TUV and others). The role works directly with Safety Compliance engineering and must understand all aspects of Materials impacting Safety when working with suppliers and new or alternate materials.
The Lead Material Engineer will also perform Component/Material Analytics to identify Technology Trends & roadmaps. The Lead Material Component Engineer will steer supplier technology to address business goals and objectives. Additionally, the Lead Material Component Engineer will assess Material and Supplier Long Term Reliability through the principles of Physics of Failure. The Lead Material Engineer will be responsible for creating a Material Benchmark of Existing Materials and Components to build future roadmaps and improvements.
This position will be expected to demonstrate leadership globally, working with Technology and Manufacturing teams in Shanghai, and Matamoros on component subjects through all phases of the component lifecycle including addressing Customer and Factory Failures. Driving Continuous Improvement Year over year inside the organization and at our suppliers is key to the role’s success. Assessing alternate materials/suppliers and providing a competitive supply base with a demonstrated year over year cost improvements is required.
The Lead Material Component Engineer Role will train the technical team in use of engineering processes and Workflow across the organization. Support and work with internal factories and contract manufacturers to solve production issues on the shop floor. Support the Quality Organization assisting in Failure Analysis of field returns.
Responsibilities- Be directly responsible for the following Component Commodities/Technologies:
Printed Circuit Board, Plastics, Insulators, Chemicals/Compounds/Adhesives, and Labels - Responsible for Qualification and approval of components including component characterization and physical analysis.
- Provide support with alternate sourcing, end of life components.
- Provide support with failure mode analysis, addressing quality complaints, working closely with component manufacturers to ensure corrective actions are implemented.
- Survey/Assess Supplier capabilities act as key technical liaison with suppliers, co-ordinate technical roadmap discussions.
- Understand the Physics of Failure and wearout / degradation of materials
- Responsible for reviewing and approving new part requests and maintaining integrity of the data in the internal PLM.
- Responsible for creating documentation pertaining to the component qualification, component…
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