Process Engineer

CORPORATE INJECTION MOLDING PROCESS ENGINEER

If you'd rather develop the molding process than spend every day chasing the same production problems, this is worth a look.

A growing multi-site plastics manufacturer is building out its Corporate Process Engineering team and needs engineers who know injection molding, enjoy being on the floor, and want a hand in creating how process engineering is done across the organization.

The company is growing, adding programs, and building a stronger technical structure around injection molding.

Instead of walking into a mature organization where every procedure has already been written, you'll help establish scientific molding practices, develop new processes, support launches, and create standards that can be carried across multiple plants.

• Develop injection molding processes for new molds and programs.
• Lead mold trials, process development, troubleshooting, and launch support.
• Apply scientific molding principles to establish repeatable processing windows.
• Work directly with tooling, automation, plant engineering, technicians, and operations.
• Support equipment ranging from approximately 100 to 4,000 tons across the broader network.
• Establish a stable process and hand it off to the plant team with the knowledge needed to sustain it.
• Travel to other facilities and tool trials when launches require additional technical support.
• Help build common process engineering practices across a growing manufacturing organization.

• 3+ years of hands-on injection molding/process engineering experience can be enough if you've had strong technical exposure.
• Comfortable developing processes rather than simply monitoring existing ones.
• Scientific molding experience or strong formal molding training.
• Experience with new molds, tool trials, launches, process optimization, or troubleshooting.
• Comfortable working directly on presses and alongside plant personnel.
• Able to operate independently without needing a large-company procedure for every situation.
• Willing to travel based on launches and regional coverage requirements.
• Interested in building something and growing with the organization.

Compensation has flexibility based on experience, technical depth, location, and travel requirements. Generally targeting a range of $80-$110K. A highly capable engineer taking on significant multi-plant travel can command substantially more.

Competitive benefits package.

Relocation assistance can be considered for the right candidate.

Multiple geographic options are available across the Midwest and Carolinas.

• Not a desk-only engineering position.
• Not a role where every process and procedure has already been established.
• Not simply babysitting existing production processes.
• Not a great fit if you want to stay permanently tied to one desk and avoid launch-driven travel.

If you know injection molding and the idea of developing processes, launching tooling, and helping build a Corporate Process Engineering organization sounds more interesting than inheriting someone else's system, let's talk confidentially.