Plastics Engineer

Role details

Job Title: Plastics Tooling Engineer

Location: Cypress, CA

JOB SUMMARY

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The Plastics Tooling/Development Engineer is responsible for leading design and manufacturing initiatives, managing cost saving strategies and driving quality initiatives while mitigating risk of critical components from suppliers. Responsible for managing new plastic supplier qualifications, supplier development, management of plastic injection molding, onsite supplier quality assessments, ensuring supplier compliance, resolving quality supplier issues, ensuring suppliers and tooling can keep up with our supply demand. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, including engineering, production, and supply chain, to ensure seamless project execution.

JOB DUTIES

• Sets the guidelines and general work practices to ensure supplier compliance consistently meets our quality standards.

• Manages new supplier qualifications and alternate material qualifications.

• Performs supplier quality audits & tooling audits.

• Works with key plastics suppliers to develop a lean culture that drives continuous improvement in quality, delivery, and cost.

• Establish application testing protocol and processes to quantify product performance capabilities.

• Manage injection molding processes and tooling development.

• Leads transfer of product lines, tool transfers, equipment transfers, both internal and external.

• Drives cost saving projects to achieve productivity targets, process standardization and best practices.

• Develop innovative manufacturing processes & solutions to reduce costs and improve product quality.

• Implement material testing and material flow analysis.

• Provide NPI support and lead design for manufacturing initiatives.

• Establish partnerships with internal and external resources.

• Support customer complaint resolution.

• Assist in application engineering efforts to improve product performance.

• Manage day-to-day operational measuring and monitoring of projects.

• Communicate project status and resolve issues that impede deliverables.

• Ensure that action item owners are managing recovery plans as applicable when and ensure that projects are organized, and deadlines are met.

• Provide weekly product development status meetings identifying project phase, tasks completed and project specs

• Ensure project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately.

• Develop an understanding of the products.

• Comply with and helps to enforce standard policies and procedures.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

WORK EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS

• 5-7 years of experience in injection molding process and tooling development, productivity and cost savings strategies in a manufacturing environment.

• Direct involvement in qualifying tooling during the molding processes

• Experience working with multi-cavity hot runner/cold runner tooling operating in 100 - 400 ton plastic injection molding machines.