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Littelfuse is one of America’s Best Mid-Sized Companies (Forbes) and has been named one of the Best Places to Work in Illinois (Best Companies Group) for 11 consecutive years. With its global headquarters in Chicago, Illinois, USA, Littelfuse is a leading, global manufacturer of electronic components serving more than 100,000 end customers across industrial, transportation, and electronics end markets. We have more than 17,000 employees with operations in 15 countries. From semiconductors to sensors… switches to fuses and more… we produce billions of electronic components that help our customers empower a sustainable, connected, and safer world. In 2021, Littelfuse had net sales of $2.1 billion.

The Materials Engineer is primarily responsible for providing material analysis, product failure analysis, reverse engineering analysis and related activities. This responsibility includes utilizing analytical techniques available within Chicago Technical Center as well as within the global Littelfuse laboratories, documenting results through technical reports and communicating results with internal and external customers.

Engineering analysis management. 50%

• Attend the engineering test requirements.
• Understand the know-how and why of the materials on fuses.
• Support to the R&D team in analysis equipment.
• Support to the Product team in specialized analysis (elemental and optical analysis).

Handle laboratory equipment. 25%

• Operation of equipment specialized for analysis materials.
• Write reports about Engineering Request Test depending on the data that the client needs.
• Know-how about the equipment, mainly with specialized equipment (SEM, XRF and optical microscopes).
• Operation of ovens and metallographic equipment.

Documentation of equipment. 15%

• Write the procedures of the equipment in laboratory.
• Have a complete schedule for the use of equipment.
• Offer some training to the R&D and Product teams.

Research and application of materials. 15%

• Keep in constant feedback with the product team to be involved in some improvements in materials and/or procedures in line production.
• Suggest topics and give feedback to the application projects. 10%

• Bachelor’s degree complete.
• Master’s degree Completed.
• Ph.D. degree preferred
• Materials engineering, Chemical engineering, physics (bachelor complete).
• 3 years minimum of professional experience in materials analysis. • Metallographic analysis (encapsulation, cut and polish materials) preferred.
• 2 years minimum of managing equipment characterization experience (Electrical, optical and elemental characterization).
• English: Minimum of 60% (writing, reading and conversational).
• Knowledge of characterization techniques of metals, polymers, and ceramics. • Service attitude.