Senior Applications Engineer MIM (Metal Injection Molding)

Aspire Talent Solutions; Rockford (IL); On-site; USD 80,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Investing in people and equipment

Job summary

Aspire Talent Solutions in Rockford, IL seeks an Applications / Product Engineer with MIM experience to drive new product design, development and market expansion. You will support the Sales and Product Launch teams by providing technical leadership and reliable manufacturing introductions.

Role requires strong CAD/design skills, customer-facing experience, and the ability to guide APQP activities from concept through approval.

Qualifications

• Experience with MIM and powder metals technologies.
• Strong design skills and ability to modify CAD models.
• Experience interfacing with customers and internal teams.

Responsibilities

• Develops engineering quotations for new products, including materials, steps, costs, tooling and capital needs.
• Recommend design changes to ensure manufacturability with MIM, including CAD modifications.
• Lead manufacture and delivery of engineering samples and prototypes.
• Lead technical discussions with customers and represent them internally.
• Lead APQP activities through Gate 1 and participate through Gate 5.

Skills

MIM experience

Design skills

Customer interface

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.