Plastic Tooling & NPI Development Manager

Truck-Lite; Erie (Erie County); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Truck-Lite is seeking a tooling and molding leader to manage injection mold tooling development on an internal engineering team. You will supervise 2-3 Mechanical Technicians and serve as the internal expert for plastic mold design and qualification.

You will coordinate with the NPI team across Mechanical, Electronics, Optics, and Manufacturing to ensure cost, quality, and on-time delivery of LED headlamps, fog lamps, and related lighting products for commercial vehicles.

Responsibilities

• Manager: Tooling expert with management responsibilities over direct reports (2-3 Mechanical Technicians).
• NPI (New Product Development) Team Member: internal expert for plastic injection mold design and development on a multi-disciplinary Engineering team.
• Life Cycle / Subcontracted Tool Support: provide support and input for life of product line, tooling repairs, engineering changes, troubleshooting.
• Product Types: LED headlamps & fog lamps, LED signal & marker lighting, wire harnesses for commercial vehicles.
• Quote Development: provide budgetary quotes and timing to the NPI team for quoting purposes.
• Prioritization: prioritization of projects for Tool Engineers and Mechanical Technicians.
• Processing: support to manufacturing teams for in-house mold qualifications and problem solving for tooling, materials, or processes.
• Tool Build Expert: tooling build/development oversight for tools built at internal shop.

Job description

Truck-Lite is seeking a tooling and molding leader to manage injection mold tooling development on an internal engineering team. You will supervise 2-3 Mechanical Technicians and serve as the internal expert for plastic mold design and qualification.

You will coordinate with the NPI team across Mechanical, Electronics, Optics, and Manufacturing to ensure cost, quality, and on-time delivery of LED headlamps, fog lamps, and related lighting products for commercial vehicles.