What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Tooling & Engineering position at NPAworldwide?
Job Description
Salary Min : $ 120000
Salary Max : $ 140000
Currency Type : USD
- Work with Project Engineers, overseeing the tooling, engineering, and project management activities of the company.
- Manage Project Engineers who lead the design, mold build, and qualification activities from first article to customer acceptance to approved production.
- Track overall project management for new domestic and offshore mold builds, ensuring accountability to costs and profit through tool approval.
- Collaborate with the Toolroom Manager to manage toolroom operations, including performance to standards and profitability.
- Be an integral part of the RFQ team to evaluate new opportunities, generate tooling quotations, and identify engineering design and moldability issues with potential new work.
- Perform and assist in tool design reviews.
- Run CAD software, preferably SolidWorks.
- Perform and analyze mold flows.
- Be familiar with the many types of injection molding resins.
- Recommend resins to customers suitable for their application.
- Work with customers on new project opportunities and legacy parts.
- Create DFMs and analyze those provided by tooling vendors and internal teams.
- Collaborate with Production and Process Engineering to facilitate process improvements to reduce cycle times, improve tools, improve quality, and reduce production costs of existing and new parts.
- Provide leadership in achieving state-of-the-art technical capabilities in injection molding and tooling.
- Drive continuous improvement efforts and lead existing and new lean teams, promoting this through the Engineering and Tooling departments.
- Multi-task and work successfully in a fast-paced environment, with strong attention to detail.
- Education: BA or BS with a concentration in Engineering or Management, or equivalent experience.
- Experience: Ideally 10 years in plastic injection molding and tooling or manufacturing environments.
- Skills: Ability to communicate with internal and external customers.
- Work with Project Engineers, overseeing the tooling, engineering, and project management activities of the company.
- Manage Project Engineers who lead the design, mold build, and qualification activities from first article to customer acceptance to approved production.
- Track overall project management for new domestic and offshore mold builds, ensuring accountability to costs and profit through tool approval.
- Collaborate with the Toolroom Manager to manage toolroom operations, including performance to standards and profitability.
- Be an integral part of the RFQ team to evaluate new opportunities, generate tooling quotations, and identify engineering design and moldability issues with potential new work.
- Perform and assist in tool design reviews.
- Run CAD software, preferably SolidWorks.
- Perform and analyze mold flows.
- Be familiar with the many types of injection molding resins.
- Recommend resins to customers suitable for their application.
- Work with customers on new project opportunities and legacy parts.
- Create DFMs and analyze those provided by tooling vendors and internal teams.
- Collaborate with Production and Process Engineering to facilitate process improvements to reduce cycle times, improve tools, improve quality, and reduce production costs of existing and new parts.
- Provide leadership in achieving state-of-the-art technical capabilities in injection molding and tooling.
- Drive continuous improvement efforts and lead existing and new lean teams, promoting this through the Engineering and Tooling departments.
- Multi-task and work successfully in a fast-paced environment, with strong attention to detail.
Salary Min : $ 120000
Salary Max : $ 140000
Currency Type : USD
Salary : $120,000 - $140,000