Tooling Engineer
Burns Harbor IN
Full-Time / Direct Hire
About:
Were looking for a skilled Tooling Engineer to support our team with technical expertise customer interaction and problem-solving. This role blends engineering knowledge with customer service to help clients improve tooling efficiency reduce component costs and better understand how different steel grades respond in die applications.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and develop tooling for manufacturing applications.
- Collaborate with customers to enhance tooling performance and reduce costs.
- Troubleshoot tooling and part issues through analysis and diagnostics.
- Maintain documentation and tooling records.
- Perform FLD and TLD analyses to assess part capability and identify whether issues stem from tooling or material.
- Recommend tooling or material modifications to ensure process capability.
- Analyze die simulations and interpret results.
- Travel to customer sites as needed.
- Provide clear customer-focused communication during issue resolution.
- Educate customers on steel grades and their behavior under different die conditions.
Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related field.
- 5 years of experience in tooling design and development.
- Solid understanding of steel types and stamping processes.
- Proficient with CAD tools and design software.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Effective communication and teamwork skills.
- Skilled in reading and using precision measuring tools. (micrometers calipers gauges etc.)
- Ability to identify root causes of part failure and implement corrective actions.
- Able to interpret die operations part strip layouts and material flow. (with and without Circle Grid Analysis)
- Capable of conducting and explaining Circle Grid Analysis.
- Experience in project engineering is a plus.