Advanced Quality Planning Engineer
Koch Industries
Advanced Quality Planning Engineer
Koch Industries
Private conglomerate in energy and materials
Your Job
As a AQP Engineer at Molex, you won’t just own deliverables — you will drive results. This role demands a strategic thinker who thrives on identifying risk early, influencing cross-functional teams, and bringing structure and confidence to new product launches.
You’ll lead from the front across engineering, manufacturing, and quality functions — guiding Molex's New Product Introduction (NPI) projects toward excellence in both technical performance and economic efficiency. Your success is measured not just by launches on-time, but by the quality and resilience of the product and process behind them.
Our Team
Advanced Quality Planning (AQP)
What You Will Do
1. Be the bridge between customer requirements and technical execution, driving engagement across PM, PJM, MIE, Product Design, and PE teams to align expectations and embed the voice of the customer (VOC) in every stage of product development.
2. Champion risk-based thinking using tools like DfM/A, D&PFMEA, Control Plan, and MSA. Your role is not to check boxes — it’s to ask bold questions, challenge assumptions, and remove roadblocks to success.
3. Lead AQP performance in the Copper Solutions Business Unit (CSBU), ensuring critical projects meet quality, timing, and launch readiness goals.
4. Guide execution of Molex’s PDP (Product Development Process) framework to anticipate problems before they happen, and build repeatable, robust systems.
5. Own product qualification documentation, ensuring external approvals are achieved without rework or delay.
6. Lead NPI-stage process audits and drive real closure of findings.
7. Quantify and attack Cost of Poor Quality (CoPQ) early in the product lifecycle.
8. Continually improve AQP practices, from both technical and workflow perspectives.
9. Be a cultural driver — modeling PBM values like Principled Entrepreneurship,
10. Self-Actualization, and Transformation. Use economic thinking to guide technical choices with business impact.
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
1. Bachelor’s degree or above in Mechanical Engineering or a related field.
2. Minimum 2 years of hands-on experience in Product Development, Quality Engineering, or Manufacturing Engineering.
3. Skilled in problem solving tools: SPC, PDCA, 3-Legged 5 Why, Shainin, Ishikawa, and MSA (experience with Minitab a plus).
4. Influence without authority. You ask “what’s the tradeoff?” and help others make risk-adjusted decisions.
5. Comfortable communicating in English — both written and spoken.
P6. assionate about Transformation. You challenge status quo to find a better way.
Private conglomerate in energy and materials
Koch Industries is a large, private, diversified conglomerate that operates in energy, chemical processing, and manufacturing. It started from an innovation that turned heavy crude oil into gasoline and grew through long‑term investments rather than short‑term market moves. The company generates value by refining fuels and producing chemical products, and it operates Georgia-Pacific, a major maker of paper and building products. Its business model relies on reinvesting most earnings back into the company to fund steady, long‑term growth rather than paying out frequent dividends or seeking quick profits. Koch differentiates itself from many competitors by staying privately owned, which reduces pressure from public markets and enables longer‑range planning. The company’s goal is to build scale and durability across its holdings by sustainable, multi‑decade growth rather than rapid, episodic gains.
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