Tooling Engineer

PURPOSE

The Tooling Engineer will have ownership of the wax injection tool building process from concept to full and sustainable production. The Tooling Engineer is the project owner and coordinates with all technical resources required to successfully build on time, high quality tooling. The Tooling Engineer works with the Engineering Team in accordance with all PCC Structurals procedures and customer specifications. The tooling engineer will also support back‑end manufacturing and product engineering with other tool builds as necessary to facilitate production‑ready processes and hardware.

• Oversee all aspects of tooling including project management, status, design approval, etc.
• Produce tooling build instructions that meet all industry as well as PCC specific standards. This will include coordinating specific needs between supplier and internal engineers and ultimately overseeing the receipt of tooling to ensure those standards are met.
• Work to advance customer service business philosophy by maintaining very close contact with customers, planners, core vendors, tool vendors, and schedulers; internally and externally to ensure compliance with customer requirements.
• Track and manage all activities for new and replacement tools for all accounts. Coordination required with the customer, vendor, internal tool shop, and product engineering.
• Primary contact for all tooling and gauging (pattern, core, sprue, etc.), including receipt & control of customer models, quotations, vendor selection, & POs.
• Organize and maintain tooling records and coordinate customer‑owned tooling inventories.
• Provide technical support for Product & Quality Engineers, Sales, and Manufacturing in identifying and resolving tooling and/or dimensional issues including wax/metal dimensional correlations, repair, and scrap opportunities.
• Responsible for performance to milestones which will support customer commitments within quoted costs.
• Coordinate design, build and source inspection of all new and reworked gauges and fixtures at outside vendors.
• May be assigned to special cost reduction initiatives as part of a multi‑discipline team.
• Other duties as assigned that align with business and tooling related needs including, but not limited to, 6S, safety, or cost‑take‑out actions related to hardware function or maintenance.

• Ability to operate injection tooling and injection presses for testing and quality inspections.
• Ability to operate or utilize straightening fixtures and gauges for testing and quality inspections.

• This position reports to the site Engineer Manager/Director.

• 3+ years’ experience in Engineering or Operations, preferably in an investment casting environment.
• Bachelor’s or Associate’s degree in engineering.
• Significant project management experience is highly desired.
• High level of competence in Solid Works (preferred), Unigraphics/NX.
• Familiarity with gauge concepts.
• Experience using the following inspection equipment is helpful: surface plate, height stand, indicators, optical comparator.
• Knowledge of casting blueprint GD&T and interpretation of complex drawings.
• Mechanically inclined.
• Maintain a positive work atmosphere by behaving and communicating in a manner that gets along with customers, clients, co‑workers, and supervisors.
• Must have demonstrated ability to work with cross‑functional technical resources.
• Must have good understanding of data processing, MS Excel.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

For informational purposes only, the range of pay for this role is $77,600 to $116,400 US Dollar (USD) Salaried based on a variety of factors. The role is eligible to participate in the Company’s Quarterly Cash Bonus Plan, paid out at the quarterly bonus factor of 2X the Company’s bonus multiple, based on the Company’s performance in the applicable quarter. Employees will receive 80 hours paid time off every year and 10 paid holidays.

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