Tooling Engineer

Tooling Engineer / Die Design Engineer

MUST have Extrusion Die Design Experience

PROCESS ENGINEER - PLASTICS EXTRUSION

SUMMARY: Our client is a growing and profitable manufacturer. In this role, you will

work on a wide variety of process engineering products, including new product and material

trials, setting up full-scale production, and process improvement.

Process Engineer Responsibilities:

Optimizing processes from design to product launch and continual improvement

Successfully introducing new extruded products, including heavy involvement in design, extrusion and fabrication tooling, materials and material development.

Document process requirements, setup and process parameters to assure equipment and plant team are capable of producing quality products.

Implementation of SOP’s (standard operating procedures) including standard work,

workplace organization, quality and packaging specifications.

Complete time studies to identify opportunities for efficiency improvements.

Coordinate continuous improvement and production process refinement efforts.

Coordinate all applicable product testing verification and ongoing validation to meet

product specifications as well as comply with applicable local and governmental

regulations.

Qualifications:

BS Chem-E, BS Polymer Science, BS Chemistry, BS Plastics Engineering, or similar.

3 years of functional and HANDS-ON process engineering experience within polymer extrusion processes, with experience running extruders in trials.

3 years of experience extrusion die design

2 years experience with Continuous Improvement tools such as lean manufacturing, Kaizen, 6