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.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

• 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. 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.
• Organizes and maintains tooling records and coordinates customer owned tooling inventories
• Provides 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 gages 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.

SPECIAL SKILLS:

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

REPORTING RELATIONS:

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

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• 3 years experience in Engineering or Operations preferably in an investment casting environment.
• Bachelors or Associates degree in engineering.
• Significant project management experience is highly desired.
• High level of competence in SolidWorks (preferred) Unigraphics/NX.

• Familiarity with gage 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.