What are the responsibilities and job description for the Mechanical Tooling and Process Engineer position at RLA Engineering LLC?
Job Title: Mechanical Tooling and Process Engineer
Pay Rate: MSP
Expected Weekly Hours: 40
Position Summary
This position is responsible for supporting the client’s business unit(s) with leveraging/improving existing and designing new tooling and process development to enable low volume (products and engineering/proto builds) and high volume (mass production) manufacturing lines across the client’s portfolio of hardware products.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Collaborate with a wide range of internal and external partners, including R&D teams, ODM/OEM teams, and global tooling and process development teams
- Develop and qualify processes and capabilities to enable new product (NPI) and technology development on proto assembly line(s) that are mass production manufacturing representative
- Leverage existing tools and processes to enable low volume product manufacturing
- Design, specify and/or procure new production tools
- Install, evaluate, characterize, and qualify new production tools
- Execute test plans, collect and analyze data, and calculate process capabilities related to new product (NPI) specifications
- Identify gaps in test tooling capability, process capability, and/or incoming material capability as necessary to ensure organizational awareness of issues
- Sustain protype and mass production manufacturing lines
- Address day-to-day line-down issues
- Monitor production performance through statistical process control methods and close gaps where possible
- Maintain target yields
- Correlate process capabilities back to product needs to determine appropriate specifications in order to ensure customer satisfaction
- Drive for continuous improvements
- Perform other duties as needed
Education and Credential Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Mechanics, Industrial Engineering, or related field
- Eligible to work in the US without RLA sponsorship for employment visa status
Experience Requirements
- 5 years of experience in a mechanical tooling/process development role
- Designed tooling and process development in low volume (engineering builds) and high volume (mass production build) manufacturing environments
- Specification and design of test tools including fabrication, gauge capability assessments, qualification, and implementation
- Worked with product R&D and manufacturing teams on design for test (DFT) and design for manufacturability (DFM) improvements
- Use of various CAD packages for tooling design
- Experience using Quality Systems, Statistical Process Control, Design of Experiments, and basic statistical data analysis on tooling design and process development and improvements
- Experience working in R&D/proto/manufacturing environments considering product validation and characterization testing requirements
Skills Requirements
- Ability to read, write, and speak English proficiently
- High proficiency using productivity software such as M365 (Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Teams and SharePoint)
- Ability to use agile/scrum project/program management principles and methodologies to consistently meet task deadlines, triage changing priorities, and track issues to resolution
- Ability to collaborate across diverse teams with a customer service mindset
Work Environment
- The position typically operates in a standard office environment and/or from employee’s home
- Be able to lift and/or move up to 25 pounds
Founded in 2010 and based in Vancouver, WA, RLA Engineering is a premier engineering design firm. We partner with clients from start-ups to industry leaders across the U.S. to help bring great products to life. From concept to prototype, we provide test & measurement and product design solutions powered by deep technical expertise.