Senior Process Development Engineer

pspan style="color: rgb(38,50,56);font-family: 'Open Sans' , Helvetica;font-size: 14.0px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;text-indent: 0.0px;text-transform: none;word-spacing: 0.0px;"Founded in 1976, Samtec is a privately held, $950 million global manufacturer of a broad line of electronic interconnect solutions, including High-Speed Board-to-Board, High-Speed Cables, Mid-Board and Panel Optics, Precision RF, Flexible Stacking, and Micro/Rugged components and cables. Samtec Technology Centers are dedicated to developing and advancing technologies, strategies and products to optimize both the performance and cost of a system from the bare die to an interface 100 meters away, and all interconnect points in between. With 40+ international locations and products sold in more than 125 different countries, Samtec’s global presence enables its unmatched customer service./span/pdiv style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;line-height: normal;"bSummary/Objective: /bspan style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: Arial , sans-serif;"The Sr. Process Development Engineer is responsible for leading and executing research development and testing of new products, advanced processes, and raw materials to support cable product roadmap and new and emerging cable performance and technical needs and requirements. span /span/span/divdiv style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;line-height: normal;"bspan style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: Arial , sans-serif;"Essential Functions/ Responsibilities:/span/b/divol style="margin-top: 0.0px;"lispan style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: Arial , sans-serif;"Reports to Cable Engineering Director/span/lilispan style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: Arial , sans-serif;"Collaborate with Product and Process Engineering, New Ventures and RD community to develop engineering research development strategy that supports new and emerging cable performance and technical needs including manufacturability, and drive industry leading cable product roadmap./span/lilispan style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: Arial , sans-serif;"Initiate, develop and introduce new product, process and materials in individual contributor role./span/lilispan style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: Arial , sans-serif;"Work closely with Cable engineering team members on new product, process, material and technology capabilities in roles as mentor, coach, consultant and extended project team member./span/lilispan style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: Arial , sans-serif;"Support new cable product development activities including technology to market strategy and process improvement and/or development/span/lilispan style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: Arial , sans-serif;"Monitor technological developments in cable interconnect markets/span/liul style="margin-top: 0.0px;list-style-type: circle;"lispan style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: Arial , sans-serif;"Report potential impacts and opportunities to upper management/span/lilispan style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: Arial , sans-serif;"Devise strategies for incorporation of developments/span/li/ullispan style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: Arial , sans-serif;"Evaluation of potential technologies / companies that enable advanced cable development/span/liul style="margin-top: 0.0px;list-style-type: circle;"lispan style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: Arial , sans-serif;"Determine validity of technology claims/span/lilispan style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: Arial , sans-serif;"Assess Technology Readiness Levels and perform Technoeconomic Analyses/span/lilispan style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: Arial , sans-serif;"Benchmark competitive products and technologies/span/lilispan style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: Arial , sans-serif;"Develop strategies and team needs to execute technology inclusion/span/li/ullispan style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: Arial , sans-serif;"Form relationships with Samtec internal technologists and customer, supplier, industry, and academic thought leaders/span/lilispan style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: Arial , sans-serif;"Develop intellectual property./span/lilispan style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: Arial , sans-serif;"Prepare technical reports and white papers./span/li/oldiv style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;text-align: justify;line-height: normal;"ispan style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: Arial , sans-serif;"* The responsibilities as defined are intended to serve as a general guideline for this position. Associates may be asked to perform additional tasks depending on strengths and capabilities. */span/iispan style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: Arial , sans-serif;" /span/i/divdivbspan style="font-size: 10.0pt;line-height: 115.0%;font-family: Arial , sans-serif;"Required Experience:/span/b/divol style="margin-top: 0.0px;"lispan style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: Arial , sans-serif;"10+ years relevant working experience in process development, manufacturing, and materials development./span/lilispan style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: Arial , sans-serif;"Proven technical leadership ability for engineering project teams/span/lilispan style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: Arial , sans-serif;"3-5 years relevant experience in engineering project management/span/lilispan style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: Arial , sans-serif;"Demonstrated expertise in manufacturing processes./spanspan style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: Arial , sans-serif;" /span/lilispan style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: Arial , sans-serif;"Demonstrated expertise in polymer properties and processing, especially fluoropolymers is preferred./span/lilispan style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: Arial , sans-serif;"Demonstrated expertise in material characterization is preferred./span/lilispan style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: Arial , sans-serif;"Experience with supply-chain or development partnerships /span/lilispan style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: Arial , sans-serif;"Demonstrated expertise in empirical experimentation methodologies including Design of Experiments and other statistical methods./span/lilispan style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: Arial , sans-serif;"Excellent written and presentation communication skills/spanspan style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: Arial , sans-serif;" /span/li/oldiv style="margin-bottom: 0.0in;line-height: 17.0pt;"bspan style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: Arial , sans-serif;"Education:/span/bspan style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: Arial , sans-serif;" /span/divol style="margin-top: 0.0px;"lispan style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: Arial , sans-serif;"B.S. degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical Engineering or other technical field./span/lili style="line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: Arial , sans-serif;"Advanced degree preferred./span/li/ol