Director of Tooling & Engineering

RESPONSIBILITIES:    

• Working with Project Engineers, overall responsibility of the tooling, Engineering, and Project Management activities of the Company
• Day to Day management of Project Engineers that lead the design, mold build, and qualification activities from first article to customer acceptance to approved production. 
• Overall project management tracking for new domestic and offshore mold builds, assuring accountability to costs and profit through tool approval. 
• Working with the Toolroom Manager, overall management responsibility for toolroom operations including performance to standards and profitability. 
• Integral part of RFQ Team to evaluate new opportunities, generate tooling quotations, and identify engineering design and moldability issues with potential new work                  
• Able to perform and assist in Tool design reviews.
• Able to run CAD software, preferably Solidworks. 
• Able to perform and analyze Mold Flows. 
• Familiarity 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 DFM’s and analyze those provided by Tooling vendors and internal. 
• Working with Production and Process Engineering, facilitate process improvements to reduce cycle times, improve tools, improve quality and reduce production cost of existing and new parts
• Responsible for providing leadership in achieving state-of- the -art technical capabilities in Injection Molding and Tooling.  
• Responsible to drive continuous improvement efforts and be a leader of existing and new lean teams and promote this through the Engineering and Tooling departments. 
• Must be able to multi-task and work successfully in a fast-paced environment, with strong attention to detail.

QUALIFICATIONS: 

             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