Description

The Corporate High Pressure Tooling Engineer is responsible for tracking all tooling builds as well as Continuous Improvement of existing programs at the Aludyne's facilities. Willingness to travel to the different Aludyne facilities and tooling vendors. Corporate Tooling Engineering is the owner of the tooling and process until the die is PPAP’d by the plant. All tooling runs, die corrections, post sample meetings and associated tasks are governed by the Corporate Tooling Engineering.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities Include:

• Review new castings RFQ for feasibility.
• List size of equipment needed and the cycle times to create the product.
• List all potential issues that will inhibit creating of the castings with equipment available. 
• List all items that can be modified with the product to enhance the creation of the product.
• List all needed equipment (capital) that may be needed to create the product.
• Travel 60% of time

Die Cast tooling builds: 

• Create a supply base matrix for all tooling builds (die cast dies and trim dies) with qualified tooling vendors that comply with the latest in technology and are a fit for the tooling needed.
• Send out request for quote to the tooling vendors selected with a full scope of what is needed, referencing the approved Tooling Standards 
• Compile the quotes received, create a matrix for proper selection purposes. 
• Ensure a “kick off” meeting takes place with the approved tooling vendor and plant where the product is placed.
• Using the Gate release system for all tooling builds.
• Lead the builds in order to ensure that flow simulations are used to predict the failures and engineer them out of processing.
• Lessons learned obtained by the APQP system to ensure that the best information is relayed to the tool build. 
• Perform weekly APQP meeting with required personnel for the tooling builds.
• Attend the Tooling reviews at the Tooling Vendors to ensure that proper build procurement is complete.
• Ensure that all Tooling Documentation is provided to the Plant Engineering personnel for tooling and Maintenance using the 23-point folder system.
• Attend all tooling run offs either at the plant or at the tooling vendor location, ensure that all process trials are documented and shared.

Requirements

• BS in Mechanical Engineering or 15 years of experience in Tooling Engineering. 
• Managerial experience over Tooling Engineering (die cast tooling, die casting process).
• Project Management experience. 
• 3D Modeling experience (preferred). 
• Must be able to review models in 3D as well as 2D.
• Understanding of Geometric Tolerancing and Dimensioning. 
• Microsoft Project. 

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