What You Will Do

As a Field Application Engineer, you will be a part of our projects team supporting an OEM at their site several days a week and then in our office when you are not at the client site.  You will participate in Customer’s engineering activities; communicate with the Program Team and proactively respond to the Customer’s needs understanding the impact of vehicle structures and interfaces on antenna performance.  Other responsibilities include:

• Represent Customer’s interests and position on program issues; manage Customer’s programs and system requirements.
• Coordinate/lead/participate in Customer engineering meetings and internal team meetings associated with Customer projects and represent Molex at Customer meetings including VAPIR, CAB, SSR, VAPIT and Program Team meetings.
• Work closely with Customer testing team - efficiently plan and negotiate required electrical and environmental testing requirements.
• Prepare and issue PDT/ Customer meeting minutes; prepare and present timely responses to action items.
• Work with Customers plants to ensure program PTR, breakpoints and launch are achieved per plan.
• Create Customer documentation, including 3660, Saleable Action Plans, AAR, PPAP, VCD and 5-Phases.
• Assist in the creation and review of project timelines and recommend actions to ensure Customer.

deliverables are met per awarded timeline.

• Assist Customer to define system requirements; resolve system issues; work with respective

“owners”; initiate change requests.

• Participate in FMEA process; recommend additional development and testing activities as necessary.
• Coordinate and participate in engineering studies and experiments at the Customer’s assembly plants including antenna to roof studies, gap measurements, insertion/retention force, and antenna to vehicle centerline rotation.
• Support troubleshooting activities associated with validation testing failures of roof-mount antennas, and warranty return.
• Support engineering proposals for simplified validation testing based on engineering simulations and analyses.
• Coordinate communication of engineering design studies such as keep-out-zone, styled antenna surface, curvature studies, vehicle roof data…etc. between Molex Engineering and Customer

Who You Are

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering, or Automotive related field.
• Ability to travel to customer facilities and other Molex facilities, including some international travel.  Most of your time will be spent working at your OEM customer site.
• One year or more working in the automotive industry.

What Puts You Ahead

• 3 or more years of experience working with vehicle exterior components.
• Understanding of the impact of vehicle structures and interfaces on antenna performance – experience of electromagnetic compatibility design, development, or testing – experience with requirement definition using structured analysis methods.
• Experience and knowledge in manufacturing processes and product development
• Knowledge in the basic mechanics of material and geometry
• Troubleshooting skills including measurements analysis
• Knowledge of antenna electrical testing, including high frequency and low frequency tests
• Experience reviewing and analyzing antenna electrical test results (15648, 15649, 16261, etc)
• Understanding antenna failure modes due to various environmental testing conditions