Product Development Engineer

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Propel your career surrounded by a diverse team of innovative, goal-oriented individuals who are pursuing the next generation of connectivity solutions. At Belden, you’ll participate in work that will challenge you and position you to excel. You’ll collaborate with colleagues from around the world, gaining exposure to a broad base of expertise and perspectives.

Together, we’ll continue on a journey of innovation, creating a connected world and paving the way for automation. Join us and let’s build the future.

Job Summary:

This is a product development engineering position supporting our Copper Cable design, development, and production in the Americas. Based in the Belden Engineering Center in Richmond, Indiana. The position will support products for Enterprise Connectivity, Broadcast A/V, and Industrial applications and may require some travel to manufacturing facilities in Richmond, IN; Cobourg, Ontario, CAN; and Nogales, Sonora MX.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop cable products to customer defined or market requirements consistent with manufacturing capabilities and lowest cost
• Provide product structure details, technical data sheets, drawings, and other product related data
• Participate in all design control issues relative to the product line including engineering changes and product deviations
• Will be assigned supporting roles on large projects or several small projects
• Understand basic design issues including equations and accepted practice relevant to the design of cable. Includes maintaining technical accuracy of all product databases and engineering and sales collateral
• Utilize electronics lab to quantify product performance for new designs
• Work with manufacturing to identify design improvements that increase product value by lower scrap, increased throughput, or lower standard cost

Required Skills and Experience

• Bachelor or technical college degree in Electrical Engineering is preferred with a minimum of 3 years work experience in a similar or related field, or alternately a non-technical degree and 5-7 yrs. experience in fiber cable design
• Written and oral fluency in English is essential, Spanish fluency is an asset, but not required

Let’s Write the Next 100 Years Together.
Join a global community striving to improve connectivity and security. The work we’re doing puts our people on the front lines of impacting lives and shaping the future. Propel your story of innovation by helping Belden write the next chapter in ours. Shape your future at Belden.

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