Tooling Engineer
Tooling Engineer
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04-04-2025
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Job Description
Responsibilities
- Assist in the design and development of new plastic injection mold tooling to meet strict part and assembled device requirements
- Collaborate with product designers to improve the manufacturing feasibility of plastic rubber and metal parts using your extensive tooling experience as well as industry best practices
- Collaborate with tooling suppliers in the design manufacturing and qualification of world class tooling as well as supporting molding process development
- Collaborate with our crossfunctional team in the selection of materials to meet performance dimensional and cosmetic requirements
- Ongoing cooperation with our tooling suppliers to continuously improve tooling designs tool manufacturing techniques and molding processes based on optimization trials and DOE results to guide informed decisions
- Provide strong guidance in the selection of machinery and equipment to improve the performance and consistency of our suppliers
- Identify disruptive technologies in all phases of tool design tool manufacturing and part creation and work to implement them into mass production
- Experience with a wide range of molding techniques including insert molding 2 shot molding metal injection molding die casting transfer molding liquid silicone molding and thermoforming
- Travel (Up to 50 to vendor sites to help drive tool and part optimization (China and Vietnam).
Minimum requirements:
- Bachelors degree in engineering (Plastics Materials Mechanical Process) or equivalent industry experience.
- Minimum of 5 to 7 years experience in the plastic injection molding industry
- Previous experience with designing and/or manufacturing tooling for high volume tight tolerance consumer electronics products or working directly with teams involved in designing and manufacturing tooling.
- Understanding of SPC DOE GD&T principles
- Experience with 3D CAD design software FEA and mold filling simulation software
- Experience with a variety of commodity and engineering grade thermoplastic and thermoset resins.
Good to have:
- Experience with post molding operations including but not limited to CNC machining plastic coatings ultra sonic welding silk screening and heat staking.
- Experience working with all types of hot runner systems as well as the associated troubleshooting of these systems.
- On the ground factory experience working with overseas vendors.
- Knowledge in metal part fabrication methods (diecasting stamping forging).
- Familiarity with Soft Goods materials including both woven and nonwoven fabrics.
- Organizational skills and related software experience (Excel PowerPoint etc. to allow for project tracking and presentations as needed.
- Competent with spoken English.
Employment Type
Full Time
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