Job Description:
Responsibilities·
- Support Design Engineering in identification and qualification of Electronics, electrical and mechanical components.
- Must have critical thinking skills, understanding parts lists, BOM's, electronic categories, components and attributes.
- Review, analyse and optimize Bills of Materials (BOM's) down to manufacturer part level.
- Initiate and lead the efforts to identify and qualify second sources for material availability, cost reduction and reliability improvement purposes.
- Understand component technology roadmaps/trends and present them to Design Engineering.
- Develop and execute component evaluation, acceptance and qualification test plans.
- Identify critical and high-risk components in products and proactively identify and drive solutions to resolve End-of-life (EOL).
- Identify and mitigate risks related to counterfeit electronic components.
- Work with approved suppliers and authorized distributors to ensure component authenticity.
- Communicate to component manufacturers regarding component failures.
- Ensure components are compliant to necessary environmental and safety standards, e.g. RoHS, REACH, UL, CE, CSA, Conflict Minerals, etc.
- Review and address Product Change Notices (PCN's) from component manufacturers along tracking component lifecycles.
- Provide input to current designs to improve product reliability.
- The Material / Component Engineering will serve as a technical resource to Procurement and Quality.
- Support root cause analysis activities for field/component failures in coordination with Quality and Design teams.
- Provide technically compliant alternate solutions for MIL, Medical, Aerospace, and industrial-grade components.
- Review connector requirements and recommend compatible accessories and associated components.
- Maintain updates to Component Supplier management tool and workflows.
- Familiarity with IPC standards, JEDEC standards, and MIL specifications is preferre