Tooling Engineer

Our Client a leading shooting sports manufacturer is seeking a forward‑thinking Tooling Engineer to join their team of engineers in their Denver Metropolitan area office. This position will be onsite
* relocation assistance available.

Tooling Engineer I with experience in injection molding tooling design, process set‑up and optimization, polymeric material selection; and the ability to work as part of a team within the design, engineering, and manufacturing group. Primary responsibilities include design and supervising the fabrication of injection molds, performing process validations, collaborating on design improvements, and making recommendations for tooling related changes to improve product cost, quality, and cycle efficiency.

• Responsible for the design of new tooling assets and ensuring on‑time delivery of tooling assets in fabrication.
• Responsible for sustaining a fleet of existing tooling including implementing Engineering Changes, continuous improvement opportunities, repairs, and refurbishments.
• Troubleshooting process and tooling issues with production injection molds.
• Evaluate both new and existing injection molding manufacturing processes identifying areas that can be changed to improve efficiency, increase quality and reduce costs.
• Responsible for ensuring tooling vendors are following best practices in their setup of molding process parameters.
• Compile tooling vendor quotes, participate in sourcing decisions, and submit Purchase Requests for new tooling.
• Create detailed tooling and fixture specifications, per part design requirements, to solicit quotes from tooling vendors.
• New Tooling first shot management, evaluation and problem solving.
• Perform equipment and mold validations to ensure quality levels are met and within budgeted costs.
• Liaise with other Engineers and Designers to improve existing plastic parts and make recommendations for changes.
• Work with design and manufacturing teams to ensure ease of production and host Design for Manufacture Reviews with project design teams under guidance of the Senior Tooling Engineer.
• Assist design engineering in product material selection based on design constraints and manufacturability optimization.
• Assist in R&D polymeric material initiatives through selection, processing, and validation testing.
• Coordination of tool repair, improvement and engineering change activity, as needed.
• Provide status reports to supporting departments and management teams, as needed.
• Sustaining tooling issue updates, management and design/processing problem under guidance of the Senior Tooling Engineer.
• Maintain and update Tooling Master lists as to status, cost, etc.
• Special entry level projects and improvement initiatives, as assigned.
• Travel to supplier sites as part of program support to continuously monitor supplier performance. Ability to travel: in‑state day trips up to 50% and overnight travel up to 10%.
• Other Duties as assigned.

• Responsible for the development, qualification, and production process approval of all new injection molds.
• Monitor part and tooling issues in production and provide root cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Utilize Scientific/Decoupled Molding processes, Designs of Experiment, and Process Capability Studies to establish optimal processing parameters.
• Optimize molding cycle times to increase company margins.
• Recommend tooling modifications to increase molding window and reduce part defect scrap.
• Determine molding vendor equipment requirements for new tooling prior to transfer.
• Develop set‑up procedures and documentation for transfers to molding vendors.
• Perform root cause analysis and implement corrective actions of non‑conformance at molding vendors.
• Implement preventative measures with molding vendors maintenance teams to reduce downtime and improve equipment reliability.
• Leads post mold repair samplings and qualification for return to active production status.
• Perform part cost estimation to support development of new product business cases.
• Interact with product design team for runner/gate sizing and process parameters inputs for Mold Flow analysis.
• Provide guidance for material…