
Hardware Component Engineer
Plymouth, MNJob$101–160K/yrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 2 days ago
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Job overview
The Hardware Component Engineer addresses complex product industrialization challenges, with ownership of component lifecycle management, contract manufacturer performance, supply continuity, and lifecycle risk. The role partners with procurement, planning, and supply chain teams to improve delivery and material availability, and drives corrective actions for supplier, manufacturing, and production issues. It is an onsite position in Minnesota.
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Full job description
Your role:
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Addresses diverse complex product industrialization challenges such as component lifecycle management through innovative problem-solving, exercising sound judgment in selecting methods and techniques to devise effective solutions tailored to specific circumstances and requirements.
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The role will blend technical engineering ownership with CM performance, supply continuity, and proactive component lifecycle risk management. Initiates design/process changes within at supplier sites, guided by PDLM-managed projects, ensuring seamless integration and adherence to standards and timelines throughout the process.
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Partner with the CM, procurement, planning, and internal supply chain teams to improve on-time delivery (OTD/OTIF), material availability, lead times, inventory performance, and production capacity, proactively identifying and mitigating supply constraints.
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Component Lifecycle & Obsolescence Management: Own proactive lifecycle management of electrical, electronic, and electromechanical components, including BOM health, PCN/EOL monitoring, obsolescence risk, alternate component identification, last-time-buy decisions, and supplier continuity, coordinating design changes and qualifications where required
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Use structured problem-solving and data-driven methods to address manufacturing and supply-chain performance gaps, including supplier issues, component shortages, yield/capacity constraints, cost opportunities, and recurring production problems. Drive corrective actions through the CM and internal cross-functional teams.
You're the right fit if:
You’ve acquired 2+ years of experience with Bachelor's in Manufacturing/Operations environment, Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering
You have a Bachelor's or Master Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Sciences, Manufacturing Engineering or equivalent.
You have a Lean Six Sigma Certification
You must be able to successfully perform the following minimum Physical, Cognitive and Environmental job requirements with or without accommodation for this position.
How we work together
We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week. Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities. Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.
This is an Onsite role.
About Philips
We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help improve the lives of others.
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Philips Transparency Details
The pay range for this position in MN is $101,000 to $160,000 Annually.
The actual base pay offered may vary within the posted ranges depending on multiple factors including job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, geographical location, and internal equity.
In addition, other compensation, such as an annual incentive bonus, sales commission or long-term incentives may be offered. Employees are eligible to participate in our comprehensive Philips Total Rewards benefits program, which includes a generous PTO, 401k (up to 7% match), HSA (with company contribution), stock purchase plan, education reimbursement and much more. Details about our benefits can be found here.
At Philips, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top end of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each case.
Additional Information
US work authorization is a precondition of employment. The company will not consider candidates who require sponsorship for a work-authorized visa, now or in the future.
Company relocation benefits will not be provided for this position. For this position, you must reside in or within commuting distance to MN.
It is the policy of Philips to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all colleagues and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, gender, pregnancy/childbirth, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability or perceived disability, genetic information, citizenship, veteran or military status or a person’s relationship or association with a protected veteran, including spouses and other family members, marital or domestic partner status, or any other category protected by federal, state and/or local laws.
As an equal opportunity employer, Philips is committed to a diverse workforce. In order to ensure reasonable accommodation for individuals protected by Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Veterans' Readjustment Act of 1974, and Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, applicants that require accommodation in the job application process may contact 888-367-7223, option 5, for assistance.
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How this job compares
Set against the 5,708 open Manufacturing Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 31, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$101–160K/yr
- Minnesota median$89–124K/yr105 salary ranges
- US median$97–144K/yr3,265 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $131K, is 24% above the Minnesota median midpoint ($105K) — in the top quarter of Manufacturing Engineer salary ranges in Minnesota.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 140 open Manufacturing Engineer jobs in Minnesota and 5,708 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Minnesota
- Actalent16 open
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience; Manufacturing Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years at the median (4,502 postings).
- Education
- 3,194 of the 5,708 open Manufacturing Engineer jobs (56%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 31, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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