Senior Tooling Engineer

Minnesota Wire and Cable is looking to add to our Engineering department in Eau Claire, Wisconsin!  We are a family owned business that specializes in MedTech, Aerospace, and Defense assemblies.  Find out more about our company at mnwire.com.  Find out more about what an amazing city Eau Claire is at https://vimeo.com/297336590

Role:

The Tooling Engineer is responsible for the end-to-end design and manufacturing integration of molded components for high-reliability wire and cable assemblies.  This position will interface with customers to understand their challenges with initial concepts and will provide solutions.  This individual will bridge the gap between initial design and mass production, ensuring all designs meet stringent regulatory standards for the MedTech (ISO 123485), Aerospace (AS9100), and Defense sectors.

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

·        Manages engineering design, development, analysis, test and/or product assurance projects to meet customer requirements, cost, quality, performance, innovation and schedule requirements. Hands On - connecting the design to production on the floor

·        Defines requirements; and conceptualizes, creates, and analyzes designs to ensure technical effort meets customer contract requirements, systems requirements, government/industry specifications, Company standards and good engineering practices.

·        Develop 2D and 3D CAD models for plastic injection molds, overmolds, and connector components.

·        Conduct DFM/DFA reviews to optimize wire harness layouts, connector interfaces, and molded strain reliefs for cost-effective production.

·        Applies broad knowledge of engineering principles, disciplines, division systems knowledge and customer understanding in guiding and reviewing project direction and outcomes and developing innovative solutions to complex problems.

·        Perform Moldflow analysis to predict material behavior, cooling times, and potential defects before tool fabrication.

·        Plans and manages internal and external communications, ensuring all project obligations are identified and objectives are met. This includes identifying and acquiring resources, providing project leadership, and anticipating and resolving inter/intra group conflict.

·        Provide technical guidance to sales teams during the RFQ phase and interface directly with customers to resolve complex design challenges.

·        Identify opportunities for automation and process optimization to reduce cycle times and scrap in high-volume production

·        Maintains up-to date knowledge of industry practices, trends, and applications. Advises senior management on potential new developments and programs.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required

·        Work requires an exceptionally high level of analytical ability to identify, define, interpret and resolve engineering problems involving incomplete information, conflicting design/contractual/policy or technical requirements.

·        High levels of communication skills are required to make technical presentations to customers and management regarding project status and technical content.

·        Substantial innovation is required to develop new and creative technical solutions to complex engineering problems.

·        Proficiency in 3D CAD

·        Deep understanding of injection molding processes, including insert molding for connectors

·        Hands-on experience with tool and die repair and/or mold maintenance

·        Statistical analysis skills are required to support testing and qualification of new tooling, processes, products and systems as needed.

Experience:     2 - 5 years of experience with 3D molding software, design of mold tooling and operation of mold presses for tool validation. Experience operating moldflow analysis software for mold optimization. Previous experience with implementation of tooling for molding machines

Education:       Associate or Bachelors Degree in an engineering or industrial field related to manufacturing

Other Attributes:

·        Highly motivated, enthusiastic, and curious

·        Ability to effectively communicate and interface with peers as well as executive level management.

·        Ability to work well under pressure

·        Excellent organizational skills, able to set priorities, and responsive to customer requests.

·        Demonstrated ability to execute results against strategy and meet critical deadlines.

·        Demonstrates perspective and ethical behavior.

·        Able to derive requirements from Customer information and create necessary prints, BOMs, routers & traveler documentation for manufacturing and testing

·        Process planning & writing experience, including metrics definition & data collection

·        General engineering / prototyping experience – can turn concepts into buildable and testable hardware and develop test plans to prove feasibility of design.

Optional

·        Knowledge/experience in wire & cable industry

·        Electrical wiring / cabling systems experience, including application of industry standards and specifications for wiring and soldering

·        Wire cutting, stripping, bundling, soldering and cable assembly experience

·        Understands and uses ERP software (Global Shop at MW)