Careers

Bourns, Inc., a leading global supplier of reliable, high quality electronic components and solutions, offers exciting and challenging careers for growth-oriented professionals. Our goal is to satisfy our worldwide customer base while achieving sound growth with strong application solutions based on technological products of innovative design, superior quality and exceptional value.

We are seeking a Director of Engineering to make significant contributions to growth and profit through the development and support of Trimpot, Materials Group, and Fixed Resistors operations.

In this position you will provide leadership, planning, management, and development of the Trimpot, Materials Group, Fixed Resistors engineering teams. Align new product development with the Product Line Managers and Market Directors to ensure product development meets or exceeds market and customer requirements. Lead the engineering team with a Six Sigma mentality to ensure excellent customer service, with a focus on continuous improvement, cost effectiveness, and superior product development.

This role has the following accountabilities:

• Drives operations in continuous improvement, cost reduction, yield, quality improvement, supply chain development, and use of integrated systems for managing engineering and production processes.
• Builds and maintains an engineering team to ensure excellence through the selection of qualified staff members, including the development and promotions of employees, while ensuring the team receives technical training that enables them to keep abreast of evolving technical trends.
• Sets the overall direction of the Engineering organization that secures the long-term success of the Business Unit by:
  • Defining organization structure, roles and responsibilities;
  • Selecting and managing performance of key players in the organization;
  • Ensure that Managers and employees receive appropriate coaching, mentoring and training; and
  • Regularly access the performance of the organization through Key Performance Indicators (e.g., new product output).
• Designs, maintains, and monitors a Technology Roadmap that is in line with Product Line Managers and Market Directors strategy. Monitors and assess the impact of technology and market trends in the field and make recommendations or take action accordingly.
• Supports Division Product Line Managers and Market Directors in development and execution of short and long term NPI plans for all market segments.
• Develops short-term and long-range strategies and policies aligned with organizational goals to achieve engineering objectives.
• Implements cost and quality improvement initiatives by using lean manufacturing, Kaizen, and Six Sigma tools in product design and materials development to prevent production problems, maximize product reliability and minimize cost and risk.
• Ensures best in class support to internal and external customers:
  • Proactively support Operations with resolution of any technical issues that may arise in production, and incentives to improve yields, efficiencies and cost to meet product targets.
  • Oversee technical communication with both existing and prospective suppliers to ensure technical aspects of the business are conducted in a fair and efficient manner.
  • Support Marketing and Sales to ensure field personnel and customers receive accurate and timely design collateral and problem resolution guidance from the Engineering team when required.
• Ensures test and analysis facilities are well maintained, including documentation, and required capabilities are available to support NPD, failure analysis, and customer testing.
• Supports IATF 16949 and ISO9100 certifications efforts or any other certifications as required.
• Consults with outside consultants, vendors, agents, contractors, and other professional individuals on matters affecting product development and operations.
• Ensures proper maintenance of requisite engineering laboratory notebooks and confer with Legal Counsel on patent activity.

If you have the right experience along with the ability to work effectively with a globally distributed, multi-culture team we want to talk with you. The right candidate should have the following training and experience:

• Bachelor's Degree (B.S.) in Engineering. Advanced degree in Engineering or MBA desirable.
• Ten to fifteen (10-15) years of substantially progressive experience in the field of engineering management.
• Understanding of materials science, process improvement and engineering design associated with materials, electromechanical products and electronics.
• R&D, design, development and manufacturing experience in passive devices preferably fixed resistors, precision resistors, variable resistors & potentiometers.
• Strong project management skills are required to organize, prioritize and manage multiple projects through timely completion and be able to continually evaluate project status and make appropriate adjustments. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Kaizen and Six Sigma training.

This position is located at the Bourns 'corporate offices in Riverside, CA.

As a key member of the Engineering team, you will have an opportunity to grow with the company and advance based on your results, performance, and hard work. We offer a competitive salary, benefits and the ability to showcase your technical acumen. Please apply by e-mailing your resume, cover letter and salary requirement to our hiring office at: BournsHR.Riv@bourns.com

Visit our website at: www.bourns.com. EOE/Minority/Female/Disabled/Veteran

Are you looking to continue to showcase your artistic creativity, and grow your skills in marketing design and production? Then consider a career with Bourns.

Bourns, Inc. is a leading global supplier of reliable, high quality electronic components and solutions for over seventy years, and we are seeking a Graphic Artist for our Marketing Communications Department.

• Role Description:
  

  Responsible for design and production of marketing, sales and corporate collateral. Produces a full range of publications and presentations, including brochures, promotional literature, technical papers, web-based projects, images, displays, videos and interactive material. Maintains art files, photo files and asset files.

  This position reports directly to the Director of Marketing Communications, and is based in Riverside, CA.

• Duties and Accountabilities (End Results Expected):
  
  • Responsible for design and production of high quality and accurate artwork. Must be completed in a timely manner
  • Design and production of material for corporate, product groups, sales/ distribution
  • Maintains all asset files, art files and photo files
  • Prepares technical illustrations following standard outline templates
  • Provides interface with product groups, sales, and marketing to develop projects, programs, training/sales tools and presentations
  • Works on multiple projects within timelines
  • Performs other related duties as required
  • Deliver high quality work for screen and web
  • Must be expert in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Animate, Premiere Pro/After Effects, Audition and Acrobat
  • Must be proficient in Adobe Indesign, Fireworks, Media Encoder, Office 365 Word, Powerpoint and Excel
  • Must be at home on Mac and PC
  • HTML and CSS coding
  • Team player
  • Must take direction
    
    
• Interpersonal Skills:
  

  Demonstrates the ability to interface effectively throughout the corporation and within the marcom team, as well as with outside suppliers and vendors to obtain desired results with all project artwork. In addition, able to analyze and solve related problems and challenges.

• Communications:
  • Oral
    Communicates with internal and external clients and vendors. Must be clear, concise, accurate and professional.
  • Written
    All business documents, reports, emails, letters, and sales/distribution materials must be clear, concise, and accurate.
    
    
• Scheduling and Planning:
  Completes design and production tasks in a timely manner. Must be able to multitask and work within tight deadlines.
  
  
• Basic Job Requirements:
  • Education
    Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts, Graphic Arts or equivalent
  • Training and Experience
    For graphic design assignments must be proficient with Adobe Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator. For web design projects must be proficient in HTML and CSS. In addition, must be skilled in Microsoft Office. Need to possess creative skills applicable to the production of materials in the electronics industry, and a design artist background with capability in multimedia production. Five years experience in a corporate environment is critical. A strong portfolio of sample work is required.

As a key member of the Bourns’ Marketing Communications team, you will have an opportunity to grow with the company and advance based on your results, performance, and hard work. We offer a competitive salary, excellent benefits, and the opportunity to work in an expanding international company. To apply, please e-mail your resume and cover letter to our Human Resources Department at BournsHR.Riv@bourns.com. Equal Opportunity Employer: Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran

Bourns, Inc., a leading global supplier of reliable, high quality electronic components and solutions, offers exciting and challenging careers for growth-oriented professionals. Our goal is to satisfy our worldwide customer base while achieving sound growth with strong application solutions based on technological products of innovative design, superior quality and exceptional value.

We are seeking a Sales Analyst to make significant contributions by supporting the global and regional sales operations teams by processing, monitoring, and reporting on commissions (SIP), point of sale, and scrap.

In this position you will be responsible for the trend analysis, and the recommendation of actionable changes to ensure that Bourns payouts stay consistent and in alignment with the organization's strategy. The analyst will be expected to heavily collaborate both at the global and regional level in conjunction with the sales analyst to ensure that the proper intelligence is being reported and measured.

This role has the following accountabilities:

1. Create and maintain incentive compensation models to track monthly, quarterly, and annual incentive compensation payouts for ECS sales representatives and RSMs
2. Create and maintain split requests
3. Design and maintain payout calculators as well as Tableau performance reports that can be used by both Mfr Reps and RSMs to track performance against goals
4. Design and maintain territory commission tracker to ensure that VP of Sales can access information to make data-driven decisions
5. Maintain rep directory alongside ECS Sales Operations Manager to reflect current rep territories
6. Process year-end sales awards and maintain database of past awards
7. Respond to ad-hoc questions and data requests regarding POS, commissions, and scrap from RSMs, Mfr Reps, and Distributors
8. Assist leadership to ensure best practices, timeline adherence, process standardization, and documentation is followed
9. Confer with Accounts Payable to ensure that commission payments are processed in a timely manner, and reconciliation is done against GL and sales operations records

If you have the right experience along with the ability to work effectively with a globally distributed, multi-culture team we want to talk with you. The right candidate should have the following training and experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Analytics, or related field
• Experience working with cross-functional teams
• Experience working in manufacturing a plus but not required
• Experience with reporting tools such as Tableau and Business Objects
• Demonstrated advanced technical skills in Microsoft Excel and Access
• Excellent analytics, communication and interpersonal skills to be used in a highly collaborative environment with senior management and peers
• Strong interpersonal skills with a demonstrated ability to work in a team-oriented environment
• Ability to work with stakeholders to assess potential risks, analyze existing tools and databases and provide software solution recommendations
• High level of experience in methodologies and processes for managing large scale databases and the ability to translate business requirements into non -technical terminology
• Ability to influence and drive change across multiple regions and business units

This position is located at the Bourns 'corporate offices in Riverside, CA.

As a key member of the Sales team, you will have an opportunity to grow with the company and advance based on your results, performance, and hard work. We offer a competitive salary, benefits and the ability to showcase your technical acumen. Please apply by e-mailing your resume, cover letter and salary requirement to our hiring office at: BournsHR.Riv@bourns.com

Visit our website at: www.bourns.com. EOE/Minority/Female/Disabled/Veteran

Bourns, Inc., a leading global supplier of reliable, high quality electronic components and solutions, offers exciting and challenging careers for growth-oriented professionals. Our goal is to satisfy our worldwide customer base while achieving sound growth with strong application solutions based on technological products of innovative design, superior quality and exceptional value.

We are seeking a Sales Program Manager to make significant contributions by managing the administration of sales systems and sales analytics for the organization globally.

In this position you will be responsible for the development of analysis and reporting capabilities globally to provide measurements of key sales objectives and their assessment of the effectiveness of the sales organization. Additionally, the Sales Program Manager will interpret business requirements and evaluate potential gaps in existing sales systems, make recommendations for improvements and implement change. The incumbent will understand the requirements for and maintain the integrity and regulatory requirements of sales data.

This role has the following accountabilities:

• Manages and optimizes sales infrastructure with systems and applications that enable the sales team to perform their functions
• Develops and implements analysis and reporting capabilities that measure key sales objectives and increase productivity and effectiveness of the sales team
• Performs complex analysis that provide sales executives with the ability to make informed decisions
• Investigates potential gaps in existing systems to determine the requirements for an enhanced system or a new solution
• Collaborates with IT staff to evaluate and improve sales systems
• Assumes lead role in sales system implementation and automation
• Provides technical expertise on CRM, data storage structures, data mining and data cleansing and reporting
• Ensures integrity of sales data, including POS distributor inventory, ship & debit
• Manages and designs the reporting environment, including data sources, security and metadata
• Supports the data warehouse in identifying and revising reporting requirements
• Troubleshoots the reporting database environment and reports
• Manages user access and permissions to sales systems, including Tableau, SAP Webi, SAP Hana, CRM and Sharepoint
• Trains end users on new reports and dashboards
• Leads cross-functional team to implement changes on project base

If you have the right experience along with the ability to work effectively with a globally distributed, multi-culture team we want to talk with you. The right candidate should have the following training and experience:

• Bachelor's Degree (B.S.) degree from an accredited University or College in Computer Science
• 5 years' experience as a data analyst or in related field. Tableau, SAP Webi, SAP Hana user experience required
• Ability to work with stakeholders to assess potential risks, analyze existing tools and databases and provide software solution recommendations
• High level of experience in methodologies and processes for managing large scale databases and the ability to translate business requirements into non -technical terminology
• Ability to influence and drive change across multiple regions and business units
• Direct supervisory experience preferable
• Sales operations role experience preferable
• Understand high tech industry sales environment

This position is located at the Bourns 'corporate offices in Riverside, CA.

As a key member of the Sales team, you will have an opportunity to grow with the company and advance based on your results, performance, and hard work. We offer a competitive salary, benefits and the ability to showcase your technical acumen. Please apply by e-mailing your resume, cover letter and salary requirement to our hiring office at: BournsHR.Riv@bourns.com.

Visit our website at: www.bourns.com. EOE/Minority/Female/Disabled/Veteran.