Engineer, Plastics Tooling

Job Duties:

• Sets the guidelines and general work practices to ensure supplier compliance consistently meets our quality standards.
• Manages new supplier qualifications and alternate material qualifications
• Performs supplier quality audits & tooling audits - Works with key plastics suppliers to develop a lean culture that drives continuous improvement in quality, delivery, and cost.
• Establish application testing protocol and processes to quantify product performance capabilities.
• Manage injection molding processes and tooling development.
• Leads transfer of product lines, tool transfers, equipment transfers, both internal and external.
• Drives cost saving projects to achieve productivity targets, process standardization and best practices.
• Develop innovative manufacturing processes & solutions to reduce costs and improve product quality.
• Implement material testing and material flow analysis.
• Provide NPI support and lead design for manufacturing initiatives.
• Establish partnerships with internal and external resources.
• Support customer complaint resolution.
• Assist in application engineering efforts to improve product performance.
• Manage day-to-day operational measuring and monitoring of projects.
• Communicate project status and resolve issues that impede deliverables.
• Ensure that action item owners are managing recovery plans as applicable when and ensure that projects are organized, and deadlines are met.
• Provide weekly product development status meetings identifying project phase, tasks completed and project specs
• Ensure project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately.
• Develop an understanding of the products.
• Comply with and helps to enforce standard policies and procedures.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• 3-5 years' experience in injection molding process and tooling development, productivity and cost savings strategies in a diversified manufacturing/distribution environment.
• Direct involvement in qualifying tooling during the molding processes.
• Experience working with multi-cavity hot runner/cold runner tooling operating in 100 - 400-ton plastic injection molding machines.

• BA/BS in Mechanical Engineering or Industrial Engineering.