Global Tooling Engineer: Plastic Injection & Cost Savings

Bartech Staffing; Vandalia (OH); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Impellam Group is seeking a Supplier Tooling Engineer to drive tooling strategies for stamping, casting, and plastic components, collaborating with Product Engineering, Purchasing and Manufacturing to reduce cost and improve quality.

Requires a Bachelor's in engineering and at least five years in tooling with plastic injection molding experience. You will manage supplier tooling quotes, records, audits, and tool transfers, with up to 25% travel domestically and internationally.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering; minimum 5 years tooling industry experience required.
• Must have plastic injection molding experience.
• Experience running tools or sourcing tools.
• Experience in stamping/plastic manufacturing preferred.
• Tooling cost estimating experience.
• Experience with tool shops, OEM, Tooling suppliers, or Tier 1 environments.

Responsibilities

• Supplier Tooling for Stampings, Castings, Cold Forming, Spring Winding, Welding and Plastic components
• Ensure suppliers are compliant with Supplier Tooling processes, procedures, and forms
• Maintain accurate tooling records in the Tooling Database
• Communicate effectively with others utilizing appropriate methods including conference calls, email, and visits to ensure proper exchange of information
• Support Purchasing with supplier tooling quotes to ensure proper labor and machine rates are used per region
• Identify annual cost savings activities and opportunities
• Review supplier tooling refurbishment requests and support sale activities to retrieve funds from the customer
• Support tool audits per customer requirements
• Support tool transfers to new suppliers
• Participate in tooling design reviews and provide final approval before kicking off tools
• Position will require 25% travel to supplier locations both domestically and internationally.

Skills

3D model review

GD&T

Mold flow

Teamwork

Self-motivation

Problem solving

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Tools

SolidWorks

CATIA

Creo

AutoCAD

MS Office

MS Project

Job description

Impellam Group is seeking a Supplier Tooling Engineer to drive tooling strategies for stamping, casting, and plastic components, collaborating with Product Engineering, Purchasing and Manufacturing to reduce cost and improve quality.

Requires a Bachelor's in engineering and at least five years in tooling with plastic injection molding experience. You will manage supplier tooling quotes, records, audits, and tool transfers, with up to 25% travel domestically and internationally.