What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Tooling & Engineering - plastic injection molding position at Talent Search PRO?
Why this role?
- Salary 120k – 140k with performance bonus component that would typically be 5-12k
- True end-to-end manufacturing from mold design to final assembly under one roof
- Massive operational scale with 242,500 sq. ft. and 83 injection molding machines
- 75 years of proven excellence serving leading global OEMs
- ISO-certified quality standards ensuring precision, compliance, and reliability
- Advanced value-added capabilities eliminating the need for multiple vendors
What you will be doing:
- Work with Project Engineers, taking overall responsibility for 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.
- Work with the Toolroom Manager, taking overall management responsibility for 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.
- Work 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 be a leader of 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.
Experience you will need:
- 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.