Senior Electrical Engineer - Operations

At Acron, our ambition is to relentlessly reimagine and reshape the value chains through which we deliver results to our customers, suppliers, and stakeholder communities, all in pursuit of innovations that create safer skies. Across the Avionics Business Unit, our employees strive to achieve world‑class results by putting customers first, owning outcomes, moving fast, and speaking candidly.

We are seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer to join the Recorders Zero Defect team at our Grand Rapids, Michigan facility. This engineer will be the team’s electrical design subject matter expert, working alongside Product Quality, Manufacturing, and Test Engineering to identify and permanently resolve defects across the production lifecycle, including supplier, factory, integration, calibration, and test‑related issues.

The role is centered on electrical design defect resolution. You will apply hands‑on electronics and Circuit Card Assembly (CCA) expertise to determine whether recurring defects are driven by schematic design, component selection, circuit behavior, PCB layout, design margin, environmental sensitivity, manufacturability, or testability. You will collaborate with Design Engineering and Operations to validate root causes, implement corrective actions, and strengthen product robustness, yield, quality, and cost performance.

• Lead technical investigation of recurring defects with suspected electrical or electronic design causes.
• Analyze schematics, PCB/CCA layouts, component specifications, circuit behavior, interfaces, tolerances, and test data to identify failure mechanisms.
• Determine whether failures originate from design, component, supplier, manufacturing, environmental, test, or system interactions.
• Identify design‑margin, component‑derating, signal‑integrity, thermal, layout‑sensitivity, and test‑access issues that affect product quality and yield.
• Develop technically sound recommendations that improve product robustness, manufacturability, and testability.

• Serve as the electrical engineering subject matter expert on the Recorders Zero Defect team alongside Product Quality, Manufacturing, and Test Engineering.
• Assess defect Paretos and production data to identify patterns that warrant electrical design investigation.
• Support investigation of defects across suppliers, incoming material, manufacturing, integration, calibration, test, and final acceptance.
• Contribute electrical design expertise to A3, RCCA, 5-Why, Fishbone, and PDCA problem‑solving activities led by members of the Zero Defect team.
• Help the team distinguish symptoms from root causes and select corrective actions that prevent recurrence rather than rely on inspection, rework, or containment.

• Partner with Design Engineering to define, review, implement, and validate design‑related corrective actions.
• Plan and support technical evaluations, experiments, and testing needed to confirm root‑cause hypotheses.
• Assess the effectiveness of corrective actions using defect recurrence, RTY/FPY, retest, rework, and failure data.
• Provide design‑informed recommendations for component changes, circuit improvements, layout updates, process controls, screening strategies, test conditions, and work instructions.
• Capture lessons learned and support application of improvements across related products and future designs.

• Work closely with Design, Product Quality, Manufacturing, Test, Supply Chain, Operations, and Program teams to resolve complex product issues.
• Translate complex electrical findings into clear technical conclusions, risks, and recommended actions for both technical and…