Director of Tooling & Engineering

Responsibilities

• Work with Project Engineers, overseeing the tooling, engineering, and project management activities of the company.
• Manage Project Engineers who lead the design, mold build, and qualification activities from first article to customer acceptance to approved production.
• Track overall project management for new domestic and offshore mold builds, ensuring accountability to costs and profit through tool approval.
• Collaborate with the Toolroom Manager to manage toolroom operations, including performance to standards and profitability.
• Be an integral part of the RFQ team to evaluate new opportunities, generate tooling quotations, and identify engineering design and moldability issues with potential new work.
• Perform and assist in tool design reviews.
• Run CAD software, preferably Solid Works.
• Perform and analyze mold flows.
• Be familiar with the many types of injection molding resins and recommend resins to customers suitable for their application.
• Work with customers on new project opportunities and legacy parts.
• Create DFMs and analyze those provided by tooling vendors and internal teams.
• Collaborate with Production and Process Engineering to facilitate process improvements to reduce cycle times, improve tools, improve quality, and reduce production costs of existing and new parts.
• Provide leadership in achieving state-of-the-art technical capabilities in injection molding and tooling.
• Drive continuous improvement efforts and lead existing and new lean teams, promoting this through the Engineering and Tooling departments.
• Multi-task and work successfully in a fast-paced environment, with strong attention to detail.

• Education:
  
  BA or BS with a concentration in Engineering or Management, or equivalent experience.
• Experience:
  
  Ideally 10+ years in plastic injection molding and tooling or manufacturing environments.
• Skills:
  
  Ability to communicate with internal and external customers.

• Work with Project Engineers, overseeing the tooling, engineering, and project management activities of the company.
• Manage Project Engineers who lead the design, mold build, and qualification activities from first article to customer acceptance to approved production.
• Track overall project management for new domestic and offshore mold builds, ensuring accountability to costs and profit through tool approval.
• Collaborate with the Toolroom Manager to manage toolroom operations, including performance to standards and profitability.
• Be an integral part of the RFQ team to evaluate new opportunities, generate tooling quotations, and identify engineering design and moldability issues with potential new work.
• Perform and assist in tool design reviews.
• Run CAD software, preferably Solid Works.
• Perform and analyze mold flows.
• Be familiar with the many types of injection molding resins.
• Recommend resins to customers suitable for their application.
• Work with customers on new project opportunities and legacy parts.
• Create DFMs and analyze those provided by tooling vendors and internal teams.
• Collaborate with Production and Process Engineering to facilitate process improvements to reduce cycle times, improve tools, improve quality, and reduce production costs of existing and new parts.
• Provide leadership in achieving state-of-the-art technical capabilities in injection molding and tooling.
• Drive continuous improvement efforts and lead existing and new lean teams, promoting this through the Engineering and Tooling departments.
• Multi-task and work successfully in a fast-paced environment, with strong attention to detail.

• Salary Type:
  Annual Salary
• Salary Min: $120000
• Salary Max: $140000
• Currency Type: USD