Job Description
Job Title:  Technical Associate III
Posting Start Date:  1/14/26

At TE, you will unleash your potential working with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to create a safer, sustainable and more connected world. 

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Job Description: 

Job Overview

The Technical Associate III supports daily production by setting up BOMs, routings, and manufacturing documents, preparing factory order packets, and ensuring materials are delivered to workstations. This role assists with engineering changes, calibration, testing, and troubleshooting process issues to keep operations running smoothly. The technician collects and analyzes data, maintains logs and procedures, and participates in continuous improvement activities. Success requires strong problem‑solving skills, clear communication, teamwork, adaptability, and strict adherence to safety standards.

Job Requirements

  • Production Support: 
    - Operate and set up bill of material, routings, and other required documents for manufacturing, assembly, or packaging processes.
    - Setting up STO’s.
    - Documentation & communicating details of competitor terminals.
  • Management: Packet creation (build production factory order packets), verifying correct information on B.O.M.’s and routers.
  • Stores: Pulling materials from inventory and delivering designated workstations to work.
  • Calibration & Testing: Processing Engineering design changes as needed.
  • Troubleshooting: Diagnose and resolve process issues, ensuring specifications are met.
  • Data & Analysis: Collect and analyze data (e.g., SPC) and support quality/ production control.
  • Process Improvement: Participate in continuous improvement activities (Kaizen) and assist in modifying processes for improved performance.
  • Documentation: Maintain machine logs, technical documents, and create/edit procedures. 

What your background should look like

Requires high school diploma.
2-3 years of relevant experience.
Problem-Solving: Ability to troubleshoot and find solutions with minimal supervision.
Communication: Clear verbal and written skills to work with engineers and teams.
Teamwork: Effective collaboration within diverse teams.
Adaptability: Quick learner, managing multiple tasks simultaneously.
Safety: Adherence to safety protocols and procedures. 
Works closely with leadership, engineering, design, manufacturing, and model shop teams.
May involve working with diverse products (connectors, metals, plastics) or processes (molding, assembly).
Focus on meeting project deadlines, cost targets, and quality standards. 

Competencies

Values: Integrity, Accountability, Inclusion, Innovation, Teamwork

ABOUT TE CONNECTIVITY

TE Connectivity plc (NYSE: TEL) is a global industrial technology leader creating a safer, sustainable, productive, and connected future. As a trusted innovation partner, our broad range of connectivity and sensor solutions enable the distribution of power, signal and data to advance next-generation transportation, energy networks, automated factories, data centers enabling artificial intelligence, and more.

Our more than 90,000 employees, including 10,000 engineers, work alongside customers in approximately 130 countries. In a world that is racing ahead, TE ensures that EVERY CONNECTION COUNTS. Learn more at www.te.com and on LinkedIn, Facebook, WeChat, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter).

 

COMPENSATION
•    Competitive base salary commensurate with experience: $65,600 – $98,300 (subject to change dependent on physical location)
•    Posted salary ranges are made in good faith. TE Connectivity reserves the right to adjust ranges depending on the experience/qualification of the selected candidate as well as internal and external equity.
•    Total Compensation = Base Salary + Incentive(s) + Benefits


BENEFITS
•    A comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, 401(k), disability, life insurance, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off and voluntary benefits.

 

EOE, Including Disability/Vets

 

IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING RECRUITMENT FRAUD
TE Connectivity has become aware of fraudulent recruitment activities being conducted by individuals or organizations falsely claiming to represent TE Connectivity. Please be advised that TE Connectivity never requests payment or fees from job applicants at any stage of the recruitment process. All legitimate job openings are posted exclusively on our official careers website at te.com/careers, and all email communications from our recruitment team will come only from actual email addresses ending in @te.com. If you receive any suspicious communications, we strongly advise you not to engage or provide any personal information, and to report the incident to your local authorities.

Job Locations:
Posting City:  MIDDLETOWN
Job Country:  United States
Travel Required:  None
Requisition ID:  146252
Workplace Type: 
External Careers Page:  Engineering & Technology