Plastics Tooling Engineer

Job Description:

• Identify areas where tooling standards need to be improved, recommend changes, obtain buy-in from other team-members and implement changes to tooling standards
• Provide input for new project quotes to ensure planned equipment is suitable. E.g. required core pulls available, clamp tonnage, shot size, tie-bar spacing.
• Track First Pass Yield (FPY) and target 100% FPY for new, repaired and changed tooling in terms of compliance to tooling standards, and with the use of the Tooling Design, Build and Production Checklist.
• Seek feedback from process engineers and technicians for potential improvement to existing or future mold builds.
• Participate in problem solving efforts for root cause determination of part defects
• Reviews and critiques submitted mold vendor design proposals and assures functional mold performance including Moldflow analysis and part design validation.
• Performs injection molding, downtime, and utilization studies and determines overall equipment effectiveness.
• Requesting quotes for new tooling and for repairs or modifications to existing tools; make sourcing decisions; and oversee the tooling design, build and launch process for production molds ensuring that the select tool shop complies with tool design and build standards, and meets required program timing.
• Propose and evaluate cost saving measures related to molding and tooling.