DFM Engineer - Injection Molding

Xometry Europe; Germany (OH); On-site; USD 62,821 - 85,665; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Corporate Laptop

Significant loyalty bonus

Overtime flexibility

Job summary

Xometry Europe is seeking a Molding & Casting Engineer to support or lead complex projects across Europe and with suppliers. You will analyze 3D CAD designs for Injection Molding, review DFMs, and communicate with customers and manufacturers via video calls to optimize part design and ensure manufacturability.

The role requires hands-on production floor experience in plastics processing or molding, strong knowledge of thermoplastics, and ability to explain technical solutions to diverse

Qualifications

• Experience analyzing 3D CAD designs for Injection Molding.
• Ability to review Injection Molding Design for Manufacturing (DFM) reports.

Responsibilities

• Analyze incoming 3D CAD part designs for Injection Molding and other tooling technologies.
• Check DFM reports and challenge manufacturer’s technical solutions.
• Communicate with external customers via video calls and explain DFM reports to manufacturers across Europe and Asia.
• Optimize part 3D CAD design to improve feasibility.
• Participate in cross-functional meetings to resolve quality claims for molding and tooling technologies.
• Attend pre-sales meetings to support technical questions for potential projects.

Skills

Molding & Casting

DFM understanding

English communication

Production floor experience

Tools

3D CAD

Mold Flow Analysis

Job description

Xometry (NASDAQ: XMTR) powers the industries of today and tomorrow by connecting the people with big ideas to the manufacturers who can bring them to life. Xometry’s digital marketplace gives manufacturers the critical resources they need to grow their business while also making it easy for buyers at Fortune 1000 companies to tap into global manufacturing capacity.

For our Sales Team department we are looking for a Molding&Casting Engineer with immediate effect to further expand our business. You will support or manage complex and critical projects and work with internal teams, customers and production. In addition to working with customers and production partners, you will actively shape your work environment and collaborate with all critical interfaces. Good ideas are implemented quickly at our company and do not have to go through various steering committees or management meetings to be reviewed several times, checked again and then perhaps decided upon. Your working day is exciting and varied, the environment is international.

Responsibilities

• Analyzing incoming 3D CAD part design for Injection Molding, other tooling technologies;
• Check Injection Molding Design for Manufacturing (DFM) reports and challenge manufacturer’s technical solutions;
• Communicate with external customers via video calls and explain DFM reports/gather feedback and discuss technical solutions with manufacturers across Europe and Asia;
• To optimize part 3D CAD design and improve part design feasibility issues, if necessary;
• Participate in meetings to fix quality claims for Injection Molding, High Pressure Die Casting, other tooling technologies together with a cross‑functional team and external customers;
• Attend pre-sales meetings with Sales Team and external customers via video‑calls, support technical questions/answers for potential projects.
• Experience in an engineering role on a production floor with plastic processing OR in a development of parts suitable for molding/casting processing;
• Expert knowledge of thermoplastic processing: plastic part design rules for a feasible injection molding processing, injection molding tool design basic structure and design, thermoplastic processing most common quality issues and root causes, understanding of Mold Flow analysis and its results,
• Understanding of various plastic post-processes: pad-printing, silk-screening, spray painting, chroming, hot foil stamping, etc;
• Knowledge of other tooling technologies like Vacuum Casting in silicone molds, Compression Molding, Investment Casting, Sand Casting, Metal Injection Molding will be a benefit;
• Strong multicultural communication skills in English with ability to convince, justify and defend ideas and technical solutions in front of external / internal stakeholders.

Working conditions

• Working hours according to Central European Time (start / end is negotiable)
• Fixed rate depending on the career level.
• Significant annual loyalty bonus.
• Overtime hours are possible for this position.
• Corporate Laptop, 3D CAD software.

Xometry is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.