The Tooling Engineer performs a variety of duties ensuring appropriate, functional, and well-designed injection molds are procured for use at Client location. This includes ensuring effective project/program management and customer communication take place.
Key competencies include:
- Demonstrates a primary and unwavering concern for the safety of themselves and others.
- Interfaces with customers, suppliers, and client employees
- Assists Cost Estimating with preparing and communicating customer quotations
- Provides the primary technical liaison with the customer
- Coordinates outside tooling and ensures timely completion and quality tools are procured
- Manages the APQP process and effectively communicating project progress and issues to all project stakeholders
- Takes responsibility for the overall financial and schedule status of projects assigned; working with Manufacturing, QC, Scheduling and Procurement (and suppliers as needed), to ensure projects are on budget, on time, and meet expectations
- Reviews customer products to identify moldability issues, steel conditions, potential cost saving ideas and ways to reduce mold lead time and improve quality
- Reviews mold designs to ensure adherence to customer specifications and requirements, as well as conformance to tool design standards
- Schedules and leads project review meetings. Providing oversight for all activities in the project
- Works with tool shop suppliers to oversee and approve the designs of all injection molds (new & modifications). Approving molds for shipment and releasing molds to production
- Works closely with all manufacturing and administrative personnel to achieve departmental and company goals
- Communicates using DELMIAWorks ERP system, APQP system, and standard reporting mechanisms available
- Develops, maintains, and publishes project timelines
- Tracks and manages changes to project scope to ensure schedule and financial issues are properly documented and resolved
- Performs other duties and functions as assigned
Requirements:
Education: B.S. in Plastics / Polymer / Mechanical or related engineering discipline, or equivalent experience gained through mold making, mold design or tooling engineering.
Tool Engineering:
- Working knowledge of plastics injection molds and designs, including mold building, thermoplastic resins, engineering resins, plastic injection equipment and injection methodology
- Knowledge and experience using 3D CAD for product and/or tool design (SolidWorks preferred)
- Must have experience with setting up, running, and interpreting mold filling analysis (MFA)
- Solid knowledge of injection molding processes and operations.
Project Management:
- Demonstrated project management skills
- Experienced with use of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
- Knowledge of formal project management methods and project management software is desirable
- Working knowledge of engineering and commodity resins
- Knowledge of drafting and tolerancing techniques, including G.D.&T
- Intermediate 3D CAD skills and able to operate CAD systems for translating, viewing, and modification of customer design files
- Ability to use Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams/SharePoint
Desired:
- Project Management certification
- Knowledge of formal project management methods and project management software
- Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification
- SolidWorks 3D CAD Experience at a professional level
- Mold-making background
- Scientific molding experience
- Good working knowledge of mold-filling analysis
- Product Design Experience
- 6+ years’ experience in injection molding, tooling, and engineering.
