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Molex VSS Team is seeking a talented Lab Technician to join our team in Lisle, Illinois.
The ideal candidate is a hands-on, multi-functional technician capable of supporting hand soldering, visual inspection, dimensional analysis, and laboratory testing activities. In this role, you will be responsible for sample preparation, testing, troubleshooting, and root cause failure analysis throughout the product development cycle.
Our Team
Molex is a global team of innovators who design and create solutions for businesses where data, technology and the complex electronic solutions that harness them are being transformed by rapid change. We are part of a team around the globe working to improve life's essential products like food, clothing, water, transportation, medical and technology. The company makes products ranging from interconnect components to collimators to complex fiber optic assemblies used in a wide range of industries. This Molex facility works with custom fiber optic assemblies, bundles, and specialty fibers including gold and aluminum metalized fibers for industrial and medical applications.
What You Will Do
Lab Technician
- Build, modify, and prepare test modules, PC boards, load boards, connector and cable assemblies for mechanical, environmental, and electrical testing using manual and automated tools and hand soldering techniques
- Design, build, or modify mechanical test setups
- Set up and tear down electromechanical tests on sensor modules
- Perform visual inspections, test measurements, and calibrations on sensor modules
- Perform failure analysis on samples failed during testing and on customer-reported failures
- Document and communicate test results through written test reports
- Participate in failure analysis of sensor modules by applying critical thinking to analyze test data
- Coordinate testing activities with internal and external partner labs as needed
- Carry out dimensional measurements to verify compliance with engineering drawings
- Solder a variety of components, including through-hole and SMT
- Perform board rework and modifications to support engineering evaluations
- Operate environmental chambers
- Develop, contribute to, and maintain test procedure documents to ensure repeatable and reproducible test results
Lab Maintenance
- Perform required checks and maintenance to comply with Molex EH&S policies
- Provide workplace hazard and SOP training to new personnel and maintain training records
- Maintain a list of lab equipment and schedule bi-yearly calibrations
- Perform periodic ESD testing of all benchtops
- Ensure lab test equipment is properly maintained, stored, and calibrated
- Maintain cleanliness of the lab space
- Maintain inventory of test modules, components, cables, and miscellaneous lab supplies
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- Three (3) years or more lab experience OR an associate's degree with lab experience
- Experience with electromechanical module testing and calibration
- Experience using standard lab equipment such as calipers, digital multimeters, oscilloscopes, and function generators
- Experience using mechanical tools such as screwdrivers, Allen keys, wrenches, hand drills, and rotary tools
- Experience with mechanical engineering drawings and electrical schematics
- Experience with hand soldering equipment and techniques
- Experience with Microsoft Excel for data analysis
What Will Put You Ahead
- Experience diagnosing faulty electronic sensor modules
- IPC-A-610 certification
- Troubleshooting experience with electromechanical or interconnect systems
- Experience using test plan development or management tools
- Experience with scripting or automation tools (Python, MATLAB, VBA)
- Machine shop fabrication experience
For this role, we anticipate paying $30-35 per hour. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.
At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.
Hiring Philosophy
All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.
Who We Are
As a Koch company, Molex is a leading supplier of connectors and interconnect components, driving innovation in electronics and supporting industries from automotive to health care and consumer to data communications. The thousands of innovators who work for Molex have made us a global electronics leader. Our experienced people, groundbreaking products and leading-edge technologies help us deliver a wider array of solutions to more markets than ever before.
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).
Your Job
Molex VSS Team is seeking a talented Lab Technician to join our team in Lisle, Illinois.
The ideal candidate is a hands-on, multi-functional technician capable of supporting hand soldering, visual inspection, dimensional analysis, and laboratory testing activities. In this role, you will be responsible for sample preparation, testing, troubleshooting, and root cause failure analysis throughout the product development cycle.
Our Team
Molex is a global team of innovators who design and create solutions for businesses where data, technology and the complex electronic solutions that harness them are being transformed by rapid change. We are part of a team around the globe working to improve life's essential products like food, clothing, water, transportation, medical and technology. The company makes products ranging from interconnect components to collimators to complex fiber optic assemblies used in a wide range of industries. This Molex facility works with custom fiber optic assemblies, bundles, and specialty fibers including gold and aluminum metalized fibers for industrial and medical applications.
What You Will Do
Lab Technician
- Build, modify, and prepare test modules, PC boards, load boards, connector and cable assemblies for mechanical, environmental, and electrical testing using manual and automated tools and hand soldering techniques
- Design, build, or modify mechanical test setups
- Set up and tear down electromechanical tests on sensor modules
- Perform visual inspections, test measurements, and calibrations on sensor modules
- Perform failure analysis on samples failed during testing and on customer-reported failures
- Document and communicate test results through written test reports
- Participate in failure analysis of sensor modules by applying critical thinking to analyze test data
- Coordinate testing activities with internal and external partner labs as needed
- Carry out dimensional measurements to verify compliance with engineering drawings
- Solder a variety of components, including through-hole and SMT
- Perform board rework and modifications to support engineering evaluations
- Operate environmental chambers
- Develop, contribute to, and maintain test procedure documents to ensure repeatable and reproducible test results
Lab Maintenance
- Perform required checks and maintenance to comply with Molex EH&S policies
- Provide workplace hazard and SOP training to new personnel and maintain training records
- Maintain a list of lab equipment and schedule bi-yearly calibrations
- Perform periodic ESD testing of all benchtops
- Ensure lab test equipment is properly maintained, stored, and calibrated
- Maintain cleanliness of the lab space
- Maintain inventory of test modules, components, cables, and miscellaneous lab supplies
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- Three (3) years or more lab experience OR an associate's degree with lab experience
- Experience with electromechanical module testing and calibration
- Experience using standard lab equipment such as calipers, digital multimeters, oscilloscopes, and function generators
- Experience using mechanical tools such as screwdrivers, Allen keys, wrenches, hand drills, and rotary tools
- Experience with mechanical engineering drawings and electrical schematics
- Experience with hand soldering equipment and techniques
- Experience with Microsoft Excel for data analysis
What Will Put You Ahead
- Experience diagnosing faulty electronic sensor modules
- IPC-A-610 certification
- Troubleshooting experience with electromechanical or interconnect systems
- Experience using test plan development or management tools
- Experience with scripting or automation tools (Python, MATLAB, VBA)
- Machine shop fabrication experience
For this role, we anticipate paying $30-35 per hour. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.
At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.
Hiring Philosophy
All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.
Who We Are
As a Koch company, Molex is a leading supplier of connectors and interconnect components, driving innovation in electronics and supporting industries from automotive to health care and consumer to data communications. The thousands of innovators who work for Molex have made us a global electronics leader. Our experienced people, groundbreaking products and leading-edge technologies help us deliver a wider array of solutions to more markets than ever before.
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).
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Frame your credentials around U.S. technical standards
Molex evaluates technicians against specific manufacturing and quality benchmarks. Before applying, map your certifications and hands-on experience to U.S.-recognized standards like IPC or OSHA so your resume reads as immediately qualified, not a translation project.
Target Molex facilities with active technical hiring
Molex operates multiple U.S. manufacturing sites, and sponsorship activity is concentrated where technical headcount is growing. Search by location in your application to find sites with open Technician requisitions rather than applying to the company broadly.
Clarify OPT authorization before your first interview
If you're on F-1 OPT, confirm that your degree field qualifies as STEM-related under DOL guidelines. Molex sponsors OPT for technical roles, but mismatched classification between your degree and the job description can delay or block your work authorization.
Understand the H-1B timeline specific to technician filings
H-1B petitions for technician roles require the employer to demonstrate specialty occupation status, which can attract additional USCIS scrutiny. Align your start date expectations with the April filing window and a potential October 1 start, and have your degree equivalency documentation ready in advance.
Use Migrate Mate to filter Technician openings at Molex
Sorting through general job boards makes it hard to identify which postings are genuinely open to visa sponsorship. Migrate Mate lets you filter Molex's Technician listings by visa type so you can focus only on roles that match your authorization status.
Negotiate your offer timeline around PERM or I-140 filing
If you're targeting an EB-2 or EB-3 Green Card pathway through Molex, the PERM labor certification process begins after you've accepted an offer. Ask your recruiter early whether the role is eligible for employer-sponsored permanent residency so that process can start without delay.
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Does Molex sponsor H-1B visas for Technicians?
Yes, Molex sponsors H-1B visas for Technician roles. Because technician positions must meet USCIS specialty occupation criteria, your application will be stronger when supported by a relevant bachelor's degree or a documented combination of education and specialized experience. Your employer's legal team will file the petition, but preparing your credentials documentation in advance reduces delays.
How do I apply for Technician jobs at Molex?
Apply directly through Molex's careers portal, where Technician roles are listed by location and function. To identify which openings are actively accepting candidates who need visa sponsorship, browse Migrate Mate's filtered listings for Molex Technician jobs. Once you identify a match, apply through the official portal and indicate your visa status clearly during the screening process.
Which visa types does Molex commonly use for Technician roles?
Molex sponsors several visa categories for Technician positions, including H-1B, F-1 OPT, F-1 CPT, TN, J-1, and EB-2 or EB-3 immigrant visas. TN is available to Canadian and Mexican nationals in qualifying technical occupations under USMCA. F-1 OPT and CPT are typically used for recent graduates transitioning from academic programs into hands-on technical roles at the company.
What qualifications does Molex expect from Technician candidates seeking sponsorship?
Molex typically looks for candidates with relevant technical training or a bachelor's degree in engineering, electronics, materials science, or a related discipline. Hands-on experience with manufacturing processes, quality systems, or lab equipment is valued. For H-1B sponsorship specifically, the role must qualify as a specialty occupation under USCIS standards, so your degree field should align directly with the technical responsibilities in the job description.
How long does the visa sponsorship process take for a Technician role at Molex?
Timeline depends on visa type. F-1 OPT authorization can be in place within a few months of graduation. TN status for Canadian nationals can be obtained at the border on the day of travel. H-1B petitions are tied to the annual lottery, with an April filing window and an October 1 start date at the earliest. EB-2 and EB-3 Green Card pathways through PERM labor certification add significantly more time, often two or more years depending on your country of birth.
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