Plastics Tooling Engineer

Job Description

Job Description:

Identify areas where tooling standards need to be improved, recommend changes, obtain buy-in from other team-members and implement changes to tooling standards

Provide input for new project quotes to ensure planned equipment is suitable. E.g. required core pulls available, clamp tonnage, shot size, tie-bar spacing.

Track First Pass Yield (FPY) and target 100% FPY for new, repaired and changed tooling in terms of compliance to tooling standards, and with the use of the Tooling Design, Build and Production Checklist.

Seek feedback from process engineers and technicians for potential improvement to existing or future mold builds.

Participate in problem solving efforts for root cause determination of part defects

Reviews and critiques submitted mold vendor design proposals and assures functional mold performance including Moldflow analysis and part design validation.

Performs injection molding, downtime, and utilization studies and determines overall equipment effectiveness.

Requesting quotes for new tooling and for repairs or modifications to existing tools; make sourcing decisions; and oversee the tooling design, build and launch process for production molds ensuring that the select tool shop complies with tool design and build standards, and meets required program timing.

Propose and evaluate cost saving measures related to molding and tooling.Company Description

Creative Liquid Coatings is a TS 16949 certified manufacturer with processes in Injection Molding, Chrome Plating, and Painting of interior & exterior automotive components.

With machines ranging in size from 100 Tons to 5000 Tons, we are equipped to handle your injection molding needs. We process an array of performance materials from commodity grades to custom blends and engineered thermoplastic resins.

Full-time