R&T Leader - Internal Cables & Connectors

Job Overview

As a member of the Digital Data Networks (DDN) business in TE Connectivity you will play a key role in the design of products for high-speed products in the connector, cable assembly, and/or radio system industry—targeting high-speed communications and connectivity within datacenters and wireless infrastructure.

ROLE DESCRIPTION

The Internal Cables & Connectors Reliability & Testing (R&T) Leader will lead a dedicated team of R&T engineers and will have responsibility for driving standardized Design for Reliability Engineering (DfRE) and Robustness Validation (RV) Methodologies for all Internal Cable & Connectors Products in the DDN Portfolio.  He/she and their team will work extremely closely with customers, Product Development Engineering (PDE) teams, Manufacturing Process Development Engineering (MPDE) teams, Field Application Engineering (FAE) and Advanced Quality Engineering (AQE) to deeply understand the end application requirements and the associated “mission profile”.  They will partner with the Global R&T COE to drive the application of standardized methodologies and alignment on all Reliability Testing and Test & Validation plans for each of the assigned new product development programs.  They will identify unique product line test needs and application testing requirements and work with the R&T COE to develop custom Test System & Software as required to support the unique testing requirements for each product line.  In addition, he/she will also partner with the Global R&T COE to co-develop Reliability Test Plans and Test & Validation Plans aligned with TE’s LeanPD stage gate approach for product development.

The Internal Cable & Connectors R&T Leader will oversee integrating reliability considerations during technology & product evaluation, NPI product development from receipt of Customer Spec (“mission profile”) through Product Release into mass production.  DfRE Experts in the Global R&T COE will help determine the appropriate test strategy to collect data using destructive Highly Accelerated Life Test (HALT) or Highly Accelerated Stress Tests (HAST) techniques to evaluate product reliability.  Based on collected data and in close collaboration with PDE teams, they will identify weak design/process features or components and work closely with PDE and AQE on the development of corrective actions and improvement plans, engaging with material and component experts to evaluate improvements of the corrective actions by technics such a stress/accelerated screening.

Long Description

The Internal Cable & Connectors R&T Leader will be instrumental partnering with PDE’s to quickly produce and evaluate first samples to expedite speed to market and drive fast and iterative product design improvements.  They will drive Early Concept Testing identifying potential weaknesses and failure mechanisms in the product design.  They will also work very closely with MPDE about Process Developments and Equipment Developments, developing comprehensive test plans to ensure capability to six sigma standards and driving world-class Simultaneous Engineering (Concurrent Engineering).  They will also support failure analysis (F/A) and Root Cause and Corrective Action (RCCA) of line scrap and customer returns as well as competitive benchmarking activities.

The Internal Cable & Connectors R&T Leader and their team will also have responsibility for designing and developing detailed Test & Validation (T&V) plans for Early Validation Testing (EVT), Design Validation Testing (DVT) and Process Validation Testing (PVT), ensuring products are validated to meet customer requirements and TE requirements in accordance with all applicable industry standards.  They will also coordinate all testing activities with internal T&V labs or any external contracted T&V labs, including all environmental, mechanical, electrical, electronic, EMI/EMC, software testing and application testing.

The Internal Cable & Connectors R&T Leader and their team will also have responsibility for designing and developing Ongoing Reliability Test (ORT) Plans in accordance with customer requirements, and coordinate with Manufacturing Quality Engineering (MQE) to ensure proactive detection of latent manufacturing defects, supply chain drift, or design fatigue for products in mass production.

The Internal Cable & Connectors R&T Leader and their team will also have responsibility for designing and developing Packaging Test & Validation Plans to ensure the packaging is optimally designed to protect the product or assembl