Senior Applications Engineer MIM (Metal Injection Molding)

Markent Personnel; Rockford (IL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Investing in people and equipment

Job summary

Markent Personnel is seeking an Applications / Product Engineer with MIM or powder metals experience to join its Advanced Technology Engineering team. The role focuses on designing, developing, and promoting new products, applications, and markets, and acts as a key technical resource supporting sales and product launches.

Candidates will lead quotations, drive manufacturability improvements, coordinate prototype samples, and participate in APQP the Gate 1 through Gate 5 process, interfacing

Qualifications

• MIM or powder metals experience.
• Design and CAD modeling experience.
• Customer interface experience.
• Ability to develop engineering quotations for new products.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• Lead the manufacturing and delivery of all engineering and proto-type samples.
• Lead technical/engineering discussions with customers. Represent customers in technical/engineering discussions with internal teams.
• Lead APQP team through Gate 1 and participate in APQP through Gate 5.

Skills

MIM / powder metals experience

Design skills

Customer interface experience

Engineering quotations

Tools

CAD (Solid modeling)

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.