Injection Molding Engineer 1638

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With 50000 patents 20000 employees and 58 locations worldwide LG Chem is one of the largest science and chemical companies in the world. With its rapid growth LG Chem endeavors to become a Global Top 5 Chemical Company with a balanced business portfolio that has a competitive advantage across the globe including business divisions in petrochemicals advanced materials life sciences and a subsidiary specializing in batteries.

LG Chem is a leading chemical company in Korea that has continuously achieved growth through relentless challenges and innovation since its establishment in 1947. From the infrangible facial cream lid to the worlds most advanced batteries LG Chem has turned dreams into reality and enriched our lives for 70 years. Building upon a balanced and globally competitive business portfolio LG Chem manufactures a wide range of products from highvalue added petrochemicals to renewable plastics specializing in cuttingedge electronic and battery materials such as cathodes as well as and vaccines to deliver differentiated solutions for its customers.

Beyond a chemical company LG Chem will become a leading scienceoriented corporation that creates value for our customers and is committed to reaching carbonneutral growth by 2030 and netzero emissions by 2050 by managing the impacts of climate change and making positive contributions to society through renewable energy and responsible supply chains.

We are actively searching for an Injection Molding Engineer with Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS) or Plastics experience to liaison between our products and clients. In this role the Injection Molding Engineer will have a polymer background such as Chemical Engineering Chemical Polymer Engineering Mechanical Engineering or others and will work directly with our client in the Automotive Home Appliance or Consumer product industries. This position is based in Ravenna OH at our new Customer Solutions Center.

Responsibilities Skills Knowledge and Experience:

• Research and develop advanced injection molding process and technology
• Provide onsite technical assistance to customers (troubleshoot problems injection molding optimization)
• Communicate with customers and provide the solution(s) on / off line
• Research and investigate new technology to provide practical solutions for customers
• Design experiments testing methods CAE (Moldflow etc) and schedule. Implement in a timely manner to resolve issues
• (Strong background in problem solving using multiple analytical procedures to identify and characterize injection molding problems)
• Prepare technical reports data summaries and other technical documents
• Plan and set up new equipment and tools at the new Customer Solutions Campus
• Manage the lab (materials machines facilities) and set up SOPs (Safety Operating Process Manuals)
• Hold injection molding technical seminars for customers and training for junior team members sales and CS staff
• Communicate and collaborate with HQ and create the technical road map

Qualifications Skills and Experiences: What Were Looking For

Minimum Qualifications/What We Need to See

Education: Bachelor or advanced degrees in polymer and/or injection molding relevant fields such as Chemical engineering polymer engineering chemicals mechanical engineering highly preferred.

Requirements:

• 5years of experience in a mold manufacture company (design or analysis) injection molding industries is preferred.
• 5years of experience in injection molding or processing of thermoplastics and relevant fields at OEM or Tier 1 of automotive home appliances or consumer products.
• 5years of experience of plastic molding design and injection molding analysis CAE (eg. Moldflow)
• Extensive experience in developing and optimizing injection molding parameters
• Experience in machine mold fabrication assembly and mold maintenance
• Knowledge of various thermoplastic materials and evolution tools (Microscope residual stress analyzer PVT Rheometer etc)
• Collaboration experience with injection molding engineer product designer and manufacturing engineer group at OEM/ODM
• PowerPoint Excel Words Skills
• Strong communication and coordination skills
• Travel up to 50

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex age gender sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability status as a protected veteran or any characteristic protected by applicable federal state or local law.