Component Engineer

Detector Electronics LLC•Bloomington, MN

4h•$100,000 - $110,000•Onsite

About The Position

The successful candidate will control the specification, approval, and management of company component data. This role involves liaising with various teams including engineering, procurement, configuration management, commercial, PCB and mechanical design, as well as component manufacturers and suppliers to create and manage accurate component data. The position requires processing new component forms, augmenting data with details like moisture sensitivity level, storage conditions, reflow temperature, dimensions, and weight, and ensuring no duplicate components are entered into the library. The role also includes entering component parameter data into the component data library and Product Lifecycle Management tool, identifying alternative components based on datasheet specifications, cost, and availability, and designating preferred and non-preferred components to encourage the use of preferred parts. Proactive management of component obsolescence, amending library data according to configuration management processes, and maintaining the library through rationalization and data integrity audits are key responsibilities. The role also involves acquiring evidence for compliance with environmental standards such as RoHS, COSHH, REACH, and WEEE, and managing complete families of components from selection to obsolescence. Maintaining market awareness of component manufacturers and their roadmaps to provide authoritative opinions on component selection is also required. The Component Engineer will be responsible for completing tasks within agreed service level agreements, ensuring the integrity and version control of the component data library, and encouraging best practices among new component originators. Enforcing company component naming and numbering conventions, creating 3-D component models, identifying alternative components, and creating component PCB footprints to IPC standards are also part of the role. Additionally, the position involves designing schematic symbols, operating in accordance with company policies, reporting on achievements and progress, and participating in continuous improvement activities.

Requirements

A degree in electronic engineering or a related discipline.
A thorough understanding of component parameters and the ideal and non-ideal properties of components.
Achieves high standards of accuracy, with an eye for detail.
Excellent organizational skills.
A clear, confident inter-personal communicator with good written and verbal communication skills.
Experience in component engineering
Experience in electronic product design
Microsoft: Word, Excel, Access, InfoPath, Adobe: Acrobat
Material Requirements Planning (MRP) eg. SAP & Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) tools
Cadence Allegro tools

Nice To Haves

Self-motivated and proactive.
Exhibits an enthusiastic, confident, and positive attitude.
Encourages teamwork, both within PCB Design & Component Engineering and with other departments.
Willing to consult the opinion of others and negotiate consensus where necessary.
Maintains a polite, respectful, and professional demeanor at all times.
Is prepared to ensure project success in any reasonable way.

Responsibilities

Liaising with engineering, procurement, configuration management, commercial, PCB and mechanical design teams, component manufacturers and suppliers to create and manage accurate component data.
Processing new component forms and augmenting the data supplied by the originator to include such information as: moisture sensitivity level, storage conditions, reflow temperature, dimensions, and weight.
Ensuring new components are not duplicates of parts in the component data library.
Entering component parameter data into the component data library and Product Lifecycle Management tool.
Identification of alternative components based on accurate comparison of datasheet specifications, cost and availability.
Identification of preferred and non-preferred components in the component data library and encouraging the use of preferred parts.
Proactively managing component obsolescence.
Amending component library data in accordance with company configuration management processes.
Maintaining the component data library by performing rationalization and data integrity audits.
Acquiring and recording the evidence necessary for compliance with RoHS, COSHH, REACH, WEEE and other environmental standards.
Managing complete families of components in terms of original selection, change and obsolescence management.
Maintaining market awareness of component manufacturers, their product ranges and road-maps in order to provide an authoritative opinion on component selection choices.
Responsible for completing component engineering tasks in accordance with agreed service level agreements.
Responsible for the integrity and version control of the company component data library.
Encouraging new component originators to conform to component engineering best-practice and procedures.
Enforcing company component naming and numbering conventions.
Creating 3-D component models.
Identify Alternative components that meet part requirements.
Creation of component PCB footprints to IPC standards.
Designing schematic symbols for components used on circuit diagrams.
Responsible for operating in accordance with company policies and procedures.
Responsible for regular reporting on achievements and progress.
Involved in continuous improvement activities.