Product Engineer - Tool Design

Precision Castparts; San Leandro (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Precision Castparts in California seeks a Product Engineer - Tool Design to own the wax injection tooling process from concept to production. You will coordinate with engineers, vendors, and customers to ensure timely, high-quality tooling, supporting back-end manufacturing and product engineering as needed.

The role requires 3+ years in engineering/operations, a engineering degree, and strong CAD skills (SolidWorks/NX).

Qualifications

• 3+ years’ experience in Engineering or Operations, preferably in an investment casting environment.
• Bachelor’s or Associate’s degree in engineering.
• Significant project management experience preferred.
• Strong CAD experience; SolidWorks and/or Unigraphics/NX knowledge.
• Knowledge of gage concepts and GD&T.

Responsibilities

• Oversee all tooling activities including project management and design approval.
• Produce tooling build instructions coordinating between suppliers and internal engineers.
• Maintain close contact with customers, planners, vendors, and schedulers to ensure requirements.
• Track and manage activities for new and replacement tools across accounts.
• Coordinate design, build and inspection of gages and fixtures with outside vendors.
• Support cost reduction initiatives and 6S/safety actions.

Skills

Tooling operation

Gage testing/fixtures

Education

Bachelor’s or Associate’s degree in engineering

Tools

SolidWorks

Unigraphics/NX

Job description

Purpose

The Product Engineer - Tool Design will have ownership of the wax injection tool building process from concept to full and sustainable production. The Product Engineer is the project owner and coordinates with all technical resources required to successfully build on time, high quality tooling. The Product Engineer works with the Engineering Team in accordance with all PCC Structurals procedures and customer specifications. The tooling engineer will also support back-end manufacturing and product engineering with other tool builds as necessary to facilitate production ready processes and hardware.

Purpose

The Product Engineer - Tool Design will have ownership of the wax injection tool building process from concept to full and sustainable production. The Product Engineer is the project owner and coordinates with all technical resources required to successfully build on time, high quality tooling. The Product Engineer works with the Engineering Team in accordance with all PCC Structurals procedures and customer specifications. The tooling engineer will also support back-end manufacturing and product engineering with other tool builds as necessary to facilitate production ready processes and hardware.

Essential Job Functions

• Oversee all aspects of Tooling including project management, status, design approval, etc
• Produce tooling build instructions that meet all industry as well as PCC specific standards. This will include coordinating specific needs between supplier and internal engineers. Ultimately overseeing the receipt of tooling to ensure those standards are met.
• Work to advance customer service business philosophy by maintaining very close contact with customers, planners, core vendors, tool vendors, and schedulers; internally and externally to ensure compliance with customer requirements.
• Track and manage all activities for new and replacement tools for all accounts. Coordination required with the customer, vendor, internal tool shop, and product engineering
• Primary contact for all tooling and gauging (pattern, core, sprue, etc), including receipt & control of customer models, quotations, vendor selection, & POs.
• Organizes and maintains tooling records and coordinates customer owned tooling inventories
• Provides technical support for Product & Quality Engineers, Sales, and Manufacturing in identifying and resolving tooling and/or dimensional issues including wax/metal dimensional correlations, repair, and scrap opportunities.
• Responsible for performance to milestones which will support customer commitments within quoted costs.
• Coordinate design, build and source inspection of all new and reworked gages and fixtures at outside vendors.
• May be assigned to special cost reduction initiatives as part of a multi-discipline team.
• Other duties as assigned that align with business and tooling related needs including, but not limited to, 6S, safety, or cost-take out actions related to hardware function or maintenance.

Special Skills

• Ability to operate injection tooling and injection presses for testing and quality inspections.
• Ability to operate or utilize straightening fixtures and gages for testing and quality inspections.

Reporting Relations

• This position reports to the site Engineer Manager/Director.

Education And Experience

• Prefer 3+ years’ experience in Engineering or Operations, preferably in an investment casting environment.
• Bachelor’s or Associate’s degree in engineering.
• Significant project management experience is highly desired.
• High level of competence in SolidWorks (preferred), Unigraphics/NX.
• Familiarity with gage concepts.
• Experience using the following inspection equipment is helpful: surface plate, height stand, indicators, optical comparator.
• Knowledge of casting blueprint GD&T and interpretation of complex drawings.
• Mechanically inclined.
• Maintain a positive work atmosphere by behaving and communicating in a manner that gets along with customers, clients, co-workers, and supervisors.
• Must have demonstrated ability to work with cross functional technical resources.
• Must have good understanding of data processing, MS Excel.