Senior Applications Engineer MIM (Metal Injection Molding)

RON SUNSHINE ASSOCIATES LLC; Rockford (IL); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Investing in people and equipment

Job summary

RON SUNSHINE ASSOCIATES LLC in Rockford, IL seeks a Product Engineer with MIM or metal powder metals experience to design and commercialize new products. You will interface with customers, generate quotations, and guide products from concept through manufacturability.

As part of the Advanced Technology Engineering Team, you will lead prototype development, drive design changes for manufacturability, and steer APQP activities through Gate 5, ensuring successful production introductions.

Qualifications

• MIM or metal powder metals experience required.
• Design skills and customer interface experience preferred.
• CAD tools experience required.

Responsibilities

• Develops engineering quotations for new products including raw material requirements, operation steps and costs.
• Recommend design changes for manufacturability by DSB’s MIM technology; modify CAD models.
• Lead manufacturing and delivery of all engineering and prototype samples.
• Lead technical discussions with customers and represent them in internal teams.
• Lead APQP team through Gate 1 and participate through Gate 5.

Skills

MIM experience

Design skills

Customer interface

CAD

Tools

CAD

Job description

Requirements

• Seeking Applications / Product Engineer with MIM (metal injection molding) or powder metals experience. Design skills and customer interface experience.

Position Summary

As a member of the Advanced Technology Engineering Team, this position promotes growth of the Company by strategically planning and executing the design, development and promotion of new products, applications, and markets. This position also provides support to the Commercial Sales Team for revenue growth and the Product Launch Team for effective and successful production approval processes and the successful introduction of new products into manufacturing by functioning as a key technical resource.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

1. Develops engineering quotations for manufacturing new products including raw material requirements, operation steps and rates, outside operational costs, tooling, fixtures and gauging cost, and capital requirements and cost.
2. Recommend design changes for customer’s components to ensure manufacturability by DSB’s MIM technology. Including, developing marked prints and/or modifications to CAD solid model files.
3. Lead the manufacturing and delivery of all engineering and proto-type samples.
4. Lead technical/engineering discussions with customers. Represent customers in technical/engineering discussions with internal teams.
5. Lead APQP team through Gate 1 and participate in APQP through Gate 5.

Perks

• This company is investing in people and equipment to expand the metal injection molding business.