Process Engineer

Plastic Executive Recruiters; South Carolina; On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Plastic Executive Recruiters is seeking a Corporate Injection Molding Process Engineer to develop and standardize molding practices across multiple plants. You will work on new molds, lead tool trials, and drive process optimization on a multi-site plastics manufacturing network.

The role involves hands-on work on presses, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and frequent travel to launches and tool trials.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on injection molding/process engineering experience.
• Scientific molding experience or formal molding training beneficial.
• Experience with new molds, tool trials, launches, process optimization, or troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

• Develop injection molding processes for new molds and programs.
• Lead mold trials, process development, troubleshooting, and launch support.
• Apply scientific molding to establish repeatable processing windows.
• Collaborate with tooling, automation, plant engineering, technicians, and operations.
• Support equipment across a broad network (approx. 100–4,000 tons).
• Establish a stable process and hand it off with sustaining knowledge.
• Travel to other facilities and tool trials as launches require.
• Help build common process engineering practices across plants.

Skills

Injection molding

Process engineering

Hands-on

Travel readiness

Job description

CORPORATE INJECTION MOLDING PROCESS ENGINEER

If you'd rather develop the molding process than spend every day chasing the same production problems, this is worth a look.

A growing multi-site plastics manufacturer is building out its Corporate Process Engineering team and needs engineers who know injection molding, enjoy being on the floor, and want a hand in creating how process engineering is done across the organization.

WHY THIS ROLE EXISTS

The company is growing, adding programs, and building a stronger technical structure around injection molding.

Instead of walking into a mature organization where every procedure has already been written, you'll help establish scientific molding practices, develop new processes, support launches, and create standards that can be carried across multiple plants.

WHAT YOU'LL OWN

• Develop injection molding processes for new molds and programs.
• Lead mold trials, process development, troubleshooting, and launch support.
• Apply scientific molding principles to establish repeatable processing windows.
• Work directly with tooling, automation, plant engineering, technicians, and operations.
• Support equipment ranging from approximately 100 to 4,000 tons across the broader network.
• Establish a stable process and hand it off to the plant team with the knowledge needed to sustain it.
• Travel to other facilities and tool trials when launches require additional technical support.
• Help build common process engineering practices across a growing manufacturing organization.

WHAT STRONG CANDIDATES LOOKS LIKE

• 3+ years of hands-on injection molding/process engineering experience can be enough if you've had strong technical exposure.
• Comfortable developing processes rather than simply monitoring existing ones.
• Scientific molding experience or strong formal molding training.
• Experience with new molds, tool trials, launches, process optimization, or troubleshooting.
• Comfortable working directly on presses and alongside plant personnel.
• Able to operate independently without needing a large-company procedure for every situation.
• Willing to travel based on launches and regional coverage requirements.
• Interested in building something and growing with the organization.

WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU

Compensation has flexibility based on experience, technical depth, location, and travel requirements. Generally targeting a range of $80-$110K. A highly capable engineer taking on significant multi-plant travel can command substantially more.

Competitive benefits package.

Relocation assistance can be considered for the right candidate.

Multiple geographic options are available across the Midwest and Carolinas.

WHAT THIS ROLE IS NOT

• Not a desk-only engineering position.
• Not a role where every process and procedure has already been established.
• Not simply babysitting existing production processes.
• Not a great fit if you want to stay permanently tied to one desk and avoid launch-driven travel.

If you know injection molding and the idea of developing processes, launching tooling, and helping build a Corporate Process Engineering organization sounds more interesting than inheriting someone else's system, let's talk confidentially.