Component Development Engineer – Low Voltage Connectors

We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.

As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.

When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.

Main Mission:

• Lead the development of assigned components or systems, ensuring compliance with Quality, Cost, Delivery, and Performance (QCDP) objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Prepare supplier consultation packages (Sourcing Packages) for LV connectors.
• Analyze supplier responses and draft Technical Supplier Assessments (TSA).
• Manage project deliverables aligned with key milestones.
• Oversee the development of LV connectors to meet QCDP objectives.
• Co-develop components with suppliers, including quality tracking (e.g., APQP).
• Ensure technical feasibility, manufacturability, and design robustness.
• Review Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (DFMEA) and support Process FMEA (PFMEA).
• Coordinate prototype deliveries at each project phase.
• Lead technical reviews and purchasing meetings with suppliers.
• Ensure proper integration of LV connectors within the vehicle/platform environment.
• Manage technical changes and maintain related documentation.
• Support assembly plants from pilot builds through production launch.
• Drive product and process validation plans (DV, PV). Maintain technical configuration and manage deliverables across the project lifecycle.
• Contribute to cost reduction and quality improvement initiatives.
• Actively participate in crisis management and issue resolution.
• Support the development of technical policies related to LV connectors.
• Applying LL and design best practies across multiple family of LV connectors
• Draft technical specifications, ensure supplier compliance, and manage design interfaces.
• Handle design, validation, industrialization, and launch phases.
• Functionally manage internal and external Engineering Designers.

Scope of Responsibility:

• Full responsibility for a family of complex components.
• Draft specifications, ensure supplier compliance, manage design interfaces.
• Lead design, validation, industrialization, and launch phases.
• Functionally manage internal or external Engineering Designers.

Working Relationships:

• Hierarchical: Reports to the Discipline Manager.
• Operational: Collaborates with SSTL, Quality, purchasing, vehicle architecture, and support functions.
• External: Manages component development with suppliers and external testing labs.

Required Skills:

• Strong knowledge of automotive engineering, mechanical systems, electronics, and functional safety.
• Proven experience with LV connectors and wiring harnesses
• Profiency in project management tools and methodologies.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering with 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Professional fluency in English (minimum B2 level) – capable of leading meetings with international teams..

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