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Within Avionics, the Displays product line develops and sustains advanced cockpit display systems that provide pilots with the critical information needed to navigate, monitor aircraft systems, and make informed decisions in complex operating environments. Our portfolio includes primary flight displays, multi-function displays, engine indication and crew alerting systems (EICAS), mission displays, and integrated cockpit visualization solutions deployed across commercial, military, and rotorcraft platforms. This work is performed in highly regulated environments and demands deep expertise in avionics systems, hardware and software development, human factors engineering, certification, and safety-critical product design.\nAt 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.\nWe are seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer to join the Displays 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.\nThe 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.\nKey Responsibilities:\nElectrical Design Defect Resolution\nLead technical investigation of recurring defects with suspected electrical or electronic design causes.\nAnalyze schematics, PCB/CCA layouts, component specifications, circuit behavior, interfaces, tolerances, and test data to identify failure mechanisms.\nDetermine whether failures originate from design, component, supplier, manufacturing, environmental, test, or system interactions.\nIdentify design-margin, component-derating, signal-integrity, thermal, layout-sensitivity, and test-access issues that affect product quality and yield.\nDevelop technically sound recommendations that improve product robustness, manufacturability, and testability.\nZero Defect Team Support\nServe as the electrical engineering subject matter expert on the Displays Zero Defect team alongside Product Quality, Manufacturing, and Test Engineering.\nAssess defect Paretos and production data to identify patterns that warrant electrical design investigation.\nSupport investigation of defects across suppliers, incoming material, manufacturing, integration, calibration, test, and final acceptance.\nContribute electrical design expertise to A3, RCCA, 5-Why, Fishbone, and PDCA problem-solving activities led by members of the Zero Defect team.\nHelp the team distinguish symptoms from root causes and select corrective actions that prevent recurrence rather than rely on inspection, rework, or containment.\nCorrective Action & Design Improvement\nPartner with Design Engineering to define, review, implement, and validate design-related corrective actions.\nPlan and support technical evaluations, experiments, and testing needed to confirm root-cause hypotheses.\nAssess the effectiveness of corrective actions using defect recurrence, RTY/FPY, retest, rework, and failure data.\nProvide design-informed recommendations for component changes, circuit improvements, layout updates, process controls, screening strategies, test conditions, and work instructions.\nCapture lessons learned and support application of improvements across related products and future designs.\nCross-Functional Collaboration & Business Impact\nWork closely with Design, Product Quality, Manufacturing, Test, Supply Chain, Operations, and Program teams to resolve complex product issues.\nTranslate complex electrical findings into clear technical conclusions, risks, and recommended actions for both technical and business stakeholders.\nPrioritize technical work based on safety, product risk, defect recurrence, yield, delivery, and cost impact.\nIdentify opportunities to reduce cost of poor quality through permanent elimination of recurring electrical and design-related defects.\nBasic Qualifications:\nBachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a closely related engineering discipline.\n2+ years of experience in electrical design, hardware engineering, sustaining engineering, product engineering, failure analysis, or a related electronics role.\nHands-on experience troubleshooting electronic assemblies, Circuit Card Assemblies, or complex electrical systems.\nAbility to interpret schematics, PCB layouts, component data sheets, design requirements, tolerance information, and test results.\nExperience investigating product failures, developing root-cause hypotheses, and validating corrective actions through analysis or testing.\nWorking knowledge of structured problem-solving methods such as A3, RCCA, 5-Why, Fishbone, 8D, or PDCA.\nAbility to collaborate and influence across Design Engineering, Manufacturing, Test, Quality, Supply Chain, and Operations.\nExperience working in a regulated or high-reliability industry such as aerospace, defense, medical, automotive, or industrial electronics.\nAdditional 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