Castings Engineer

The Casting Engineer is an experienced engineer and serves as the primary and responsible person for developing a casting solution for the parts developed by product engineering or received from the customer technical liaison. The person is charged with finding the optimum casting process and layout, developing a casting solution and tooling that will meet the customer requirements. This person is expected to function at a fast pace with minimum supervision in a technical environment.

The requirements of the business may cause frequent interruptions and changing priorities.

Product Engineer, Castings

• Evaluate casting designs for manufacturability and develop robust casting solutions that meet customer, quality, cost, and production requirements.
• Develop casting concepts, gating systems, runners, risers, cooling circuits, venting systems, and mold layouts for prototype and production applications.
• Perform and interpret casting simulations using MAGMASOFT, Flow-3D CAST, EKK, or equivalent software to optimize metal flow, solidification, thermal management, and overall casting quality.
• Apply engineering principles including metallurgy, statistical analysis, Design of Experiments (DOE), CAE validation, and process capability analysis to support product and process development.
• Support a variety of aluminum, magnesium, and ferrous casting processes including High Pressure Die Casting (HPDC), Squeeze Casting, Gravity Casting, Permanent Mold, Semi-Permanent Mold, Sand Casting, Tilt Pour, PCPC, and VRC/PRC technologies.

• Designs, develop and support tooling designs for prototype and production programs utilizing Siemens NX or equivalent CAD platforms.
• Coordinate tooling development activities with internal and external tooling suppliers and provide technical support throughout design, build, validation, and launch phases.
• Establish and maintain process documentation, setup parameters, tooling standards, engineering records, and revision control activities.
• Supports manufacturing plants with tooling and process troubleshooting and maintains current tooling and process revisions.

• Support prototype builds, APQP activities, PPAP submissions, process validation, production launches, and manufacturing readiness reviews.
• Provide technical support to manufacturing facilities to resolve casting, tooling, process, quality, productivity, and launch-related issues.
• Lead or support root cause investigations, corrective actions, process optimization initiatives, and scrap reduction activities using structured problem-solving methodologies.

• Serve as a technical liaison between product engineering, manufacturing facilities, suppliers, tool shops, and customers to communicate design, manufacturing, and process requirements.
• Participate in internal and customer design reviews and provide recommendations to improve manufacturability, quality, cost, and operational performance.
• Support engineering change management activities including evaluation, implementation, validation, and approval of design and process changes.

• Supports the Program Manager, manufacturing lead meetings, launch-readiness activities, trials, and launches at Linamar and supplier facilities.

• Supports plant scrap reduction, tooling improvement, and troubleshooting projects.
• Tracks annual savings and leads or supports value analysis/value engineering activities.

• Provides input to management regarding personal development and performs other duties as assigned.

• Mentor and support the development of engineering and manufacturing personnel through technical guidance, training, and knowledge sharing.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

This job description is intended to convey information essential to understanding the scope of this position and it is not intended to be an exhaustive list of skills, efforts, duties, responsibilities or working conditions associated with the position. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Materials Engineering, or a related technical discipline preferred.

• Experience developing casting designs, gating and riser systems, cooling…