Senior Project Engineer: Plastic Injection Molding

ManpowerGroup; Monroe (WI); On-site; USD 128,000 - 157,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Base salary up to $142,600

Full benefits

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Manpower Engineering collaborates with a growth-focused Wisconsin manufacturer to fill a Senior Project Engineer – Plastic Injection Molding role. You will drive the introduction of new projects, manage tooling changes, and support manufacturing issue resolution while advancing continuous improvement.

Lead APQP activities, set standards, update routings/BOMs, and coordinate with production, quality, and purchasing to meet customer expectations and ensure successful program execution.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field.
• 3+ years of experience in engineering roles, preferably in plastics/injection molding.
• Strong understanding of injection molding processes and GD&T.

Responsibilities

• Obtain information from the appropriate manufacturing, quality, internal engineering, and purchasing to provide the optimum proposal to the customer.
• Perform all cost estimating functions during the development cycle using established APQP procedures, establish all standards for each job, from material to process to production.
• Place all new tooling & fixture builds through the company’s APQP process and be responsible for all mechanical design functions and tooling program management. Schedule all samples and provide support at all stages of the process. Communicate and document pertinent set-up and processing information to molding technicians.
• Update routings, BOM’s and BOO’s to reflect engineering change requests; oversee updating of engineering print files & revisions to engineering prints, as well as reviewing and updating standards for accuracy and reducing manufacturing variances.
• Provide proposals for annual continuous improvement and cost reduction opportunities.
• Interact with manufacturing personnel to establish standard processes to ensure customer expectations are being met, and to provide ongoing support for production requirements.
• Establishes all quality plans for each part (FMEA’s, Control Plans, Work Instructions, Work Cell Layouts and PPAP’s) and works as team leader with manufacturing & QA to obtain completed documents.
• Strives to obtain continuous education & maintenance of high level of education related to current and new tooling, machinery, materials, and processing.
• Travel to customer and vendor locations or other company facilities.

Skills

Injection molding

Project management

Creo

SolidWorks

GD&T

DFM

Team collaboration

Communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering

Tools

Creo

SolidWorks

Job description

Manpower Engineering collaborates with a growth-focused Wisconsin manufacturer to fill a Senior Project Engineer – Plastic Injection Molding role. You will drive the introduction of new projects, manage tooling changes, and support manufacturing issue resolution while advancing continuous improvement.

Lead APQP activities, set standards, update routings/BOMs, and coordinate with production, quality, and purchasing to meet customer expectations and ensure successful program execution.