Design Engineer

Overview

Position Title: Design Engineer

Reports To: Tooling and Engineering Manager (204)

Approved: 7/26/2018 (MR)

Summary: The Design Engineer is active in all Pre-Design, Design and Process Release stages of new tooling jobs. The Design Engineer may estimate and design new tooling.

• Creates a process of a new tooling production job including all operations needed to produce the customer's part.
• Processes Direct buy/Subcontract assignments for tooling orders upon completion of the designs.
• Determines sequence and number of die stages in which single or progressive cutting, punching, and forming will be accomplished, and type of dies required to produce a complete part, based on knowledge of dies, forming processes, and machines.
• Organizes and schedules Pre-Design and Process Release meetings.
• Surveys and qualifies outside vendors for designing and building of dies.
• Responsible for customer engineering changes and blueprint revision notifications.
• Responsible for file storage and transfer of die designs and CNC programs.
• Estimates tooling costs using customer information, material and labor costs and any outside source work. Inputs all information in ERP System including prices and sources.
• Follow all applicable safety policies and procedures when working in the plant.
• (May) observe a setup and/or tryout of a newly developed die in a production machine to determine need for re-design or readiness for production use.
• Ability to reverse engineer and create electronic prints of existing die sets

• Bachelors preferred otherwise Trade school or minimum 5 year experience required
• Proficient in Solidworks, Excel, Word, and AutoCAD.
• Accommodation as required for reading computer screens, instruments, blue prints and documents.
• Ability to monitor machine sounds to identify and diagnose changes in order to take appropriate action.

• High noise levels from operating machines
• Physical hazards from moving equipment and machine parts
• Breathing fumes, dust and mist
• Skin exposure to oils and cutting fluid