Advanced Quality Planning (AQP) Manager

Your Job

The Advanced Quality Planning (AQP) Manager will collaborate proactively with the Product Development team and senior management to formulate and implement a comprehensive Quality Plan aimed at identifying, managing, and mitigating project risks. This approach ensures a flawless product launch that consistently meets or exceeds both internal and external requirements for safety, quality, delivery, and cost objectives.

The AQP Manager will provide leadership and direction to the plant quality teams in establishing and maintaining a zero-defect quality culture. Work closely with plant quality management to ensure alignment and foster continuous improvement initiatives across all manufacturing locations.

Oversee the support and resolution of customer complaints within the North America region, with particular emphasis during product launch phases, and provide assistance in addressing other customer quality concerns as required.

Our Team

Molex creates connections for life by enabling technologies that transform the future and improve lives. With a presence in more than 40 countries, Molex offers a complete range of connectivity products, services and solutions for the data communications, medical, industrial, automotive and consumer electronics industries. Our Datacom and Specialty Solutions team designs an extensive product line serving customers in telecommunications, datacom, hyperscalers, data center and storage applications.

What You Will Do

• Supervise the direct reports: To understand and develop the strength of each direct reports, communicate the career path, set up the best dedicated training/developing plan for each of them. Guiding the non-direct report as needed in specific case.
• Quality Plan Strategy Development: Ensures the overall NW projects have robust Quality Planning for new products development, focus on the voice of customer and comply with customer/regulatory requirements and internal expectations.
• Key Customer Quality Issue Lead: Responsible for managing significant customer quality concerns, coordinating cross-functional teams, and collaborating with customers to ensure expectations are clearly aligned.
• Set up and Evaluate the Quality Performance: Discuss and setup the KPI for each individual report engineer to motivate the potential of team member.
• Flawless Launch Strategy: Work with each customer representative and cross functional team to setup
• up the overall flawless launch strategy across networking products. Ensure all the necessarily action been taken during flawless launch.
• Resource Planning for upcoming project/application: Monitor the AQP team resources compare what are the technical/product/process difficult we might have gap with next customer application/project.
• Communicate the quality concern/improvement/opportunities: Communicate the external/internal quality concern/improvement/opportunities to the management, have all the interesting parties/stakeholder in the same page and optimize the resource allocation.
• PBM & Quality Systems: Understand, practice and provide guidance on KOCH 5 dimensions & guiding principles; Lean / Six Sigma; ISO&IATF 16949; Change Management by following the organization procedures to individual report.
• Perform other related duties as assigned by management.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• BS Degree in Engineering or another related field.
• 8+ years experience in Quality Engineering or related engineering field.
• 5+ years in an automotive industry.
• Manufacturing production floor experiences.
• Travel requirements range from 10% to 30% (domestic and international travel).

What Will Put You Ahead

• 7+ years experience leading PFMEA/DFMEA and using other Advanced Quality Planning tools.
• Electrical Engineering with Signal Integrity knowledge, IATF/VDA Certified.
• Experience in Quality Engineering Supervisor role in a new-product introduction environment.
• Experience in cable/connector design/manufacturing.

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Hiring Philosophy

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Who We Are

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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