Senior Plastics Tooling Leader: Drive Innovation & Cost Savings

Conmet; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent base salary

Targeted annual bonus based on company

Comprehensive medical/dental/vision

Vacation plan with paid time off

ESOP participation

401k with employer match

Ten paid holidays per year

Wellness reimbursement

Job summary

ConMet – Canton location is seeking a Sr. Plastics Tooling Engineer to manage the design, development, release, repair, and continuous improvement of injection molding tooling for safe, cost-effective production of plastic parts.

The role leads the Tooling Technician group, coordinates tooling decisions and vendor quotes, travels to tooling suppliers, and provides direction to improve skills and performance while driving waste reduction and profitability across the manufacturing process.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Mechanical, Industrial, or Manufacturing Engineering or equivalent from an accredited college or university.
• Three (3+) or more years of plastics manufacturing engineering experience in a production environment.
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience in plastics tool design.
• Expert knowledge of GD&T and proficiency in AutoCAD/PRO E, 3-D modeling software.

Responsibilities

• Provide input for tooling decisions and serve as key contact for project coordination and status.
• Coordinate the interval refurbishments of injection mold tooling onsite.
• Lead vendor quoting and site visits for outside tooling suppliers to support complex repairs that cannot be completed in-house.
• Provide direction, training, and coaching to Tooling Technicians to enhance employee skill set and performance
• Report on progress, roadblocks, successes, and open issues in daily accountability meetings.
• Study existing manufacturing operations and processes to identify opportunities to drive out waste and improve profitability.
• Develop common work standards, identify and reapply best practices.
• Review 3D part designs and submit them to vendors for tooling quotes.
• Support mold design, build, and repair functions.
• Travel to Injection Mold vendors (US/Mexico/Canada) to attend trials and review tool progress.
• Help solve tool design problems, offer suggestions, review designs, and support vendor selection. Provides primary input for all tooling decisions.
• Work as part of a cross-functional team with a focus on the product value stream, including a basic understanding of process flow, equipment, and operations.
• Assist sales, design, or customers with “part” design reviews to optimize manufacturability and cost.
• Maintain and update tooling records in Smartsheet tracking software.
• Hold design review meetings with appropriate ConMet personnel to review the tooling designs.
• Select and interface with tooling vendors to ensure tooling is built to ConMet specifications.
• Coordinate repairs and rework efforts to ensure that changes are made in a timely, cost-effective, efficient, and effective manner.
• Provides support to ConMet manufacturing personnel during tooling sampling runs and through production launch to ensure parts are manufacturable for our processes as designed.
• Works with ConMet Quality Assurance personnel to ensure that parts produced from tooling meet quality requirements.
• Provides problem-solving and maintenance support to the Tool Room and Production as required.
• Maintain awareness of the relevance and importance of activities and how each contributes to achieving quality objectives. Understand the importance of ensuring customer quality standards are met. Responsibilities may include the selection of special characteristics, setting quality objectives and related training, corrective and preventive actions, product design and development, capacity analysis, logistics information, customer scorecards, and customer portals.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives within the Tooling Department.

Skills

Leadership

Problem solving

Knowledge of GD&T

Education

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical, Industrial, or Manufacturing Engineering

Tools

AutoCAD

Pro/E

3D Modeling

Job description

ConMet – Canton location is seeking a Sr. Plastics Tooling Engineer to manage the design, development, release, repair, and continuous improvement of injection molding tooling for safe, cost-effective production of plastic parts.

The role leads the Tooling Technician group, coordinates tooling decisions and vendor quotes, travels to tooling suppliers, and provides direction to improve skills and performance while driving waste reduction and profitability across the manufacturing process.