Senior Applications Engineer MIM (Metal Injection Molding)

Calqulate Metrics Ltd; Rockford (IL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Investing in people

Job summary

Calqulate Metrics Ltd in Rockford, IL is seeking an Applications / Product Engineer to grow the metal injection molding business and support sales and launch teams.

You will plan and execute design, development and promotion of new products and applications, interact with customers, and drive manufacturability improvements.

Qualifications

• Experience with MIM or powder metals processes and materials.
• Ability to develop marked prints and modify CAD models for manufacturability.
• Strong design engineering skills and customer interfacing experience.

Responsibilities

• Develops engineering quotations for manufacturing new products including materials, operation steps and costs.
• Recommend design changes to improve manufacturability of MIM components.
• Lead the production of engineering and prototype samples.
• Lead APQP activities through Gate 1 to Gate 5 with internal teams and customers.

Skills

MIM experience

Powder metals experience

Design for manufacturability

Customer interface experience

Tools

CAD (SolidWorks/CATIA)

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:

• 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.

Perks:

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