Tiger Team Manufacturing Tooling Engineer

HellermannTyton; Milwaukee (WI); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

HellermannTyton is seeking a Tooling Engineer to serve as the TIGER Team's technical owner for mold and tooling investigation, trials, and permanent countermeasures. You will evaluate mold condition, wear, hot-runner performance, venting, cooling, alignment, and maintenance history to determine tooling contributions to quality issues.

You will coordinate rapid inspections, define maintenance strategies, and verify that tooling corrections reliably prevent recurrence while upholding Quality and

Qualifications

• Experience diagnosing tool-related defects and implementing countermeasures.
• Ability to interpret tool drawings, tolerances and maintenance records.
• Experience with CAD and dimensional inspection is preferred.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and project management skills.

Responsibilities

• Rapidly assess tooling-related factors for customer complaints and production issues.
• Inspect molds, cavities, hot-runner systems, vents, gates and cooling circuits.
• Review maintenance history and defect patterns to form hypotheses.
• Coordinate mold studies, bench inspections, and supplier support.
• Design and implement permanent tooling countermeasures.
• Verify effectiveness through trials and recurrence monitoring.

Skills

Mechanical problem-solving

Project management

Cross-functional communication

Technical writing

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Tooling, Mechanical, Manufacturing, Plastics, or related engineering discipline

Tools

CAD

Dimensional inspection

Tolerance analysis

Maintenance systems

Job description

Job Summary

The Tooling Engineer is the TIGER Team technical owner for mold and tooling investigation, tooling trials, and permanent tooling countermeasures. This role evaluates mold condition, component wear, hot-runner performance, venting, cooling, alignment, maintenance history, and failure mechanisms to determine whether tooling contributed to an internal or external quality issue. The engineer coordinates rapid inspection and trials, defines maintenance strategies, and verifies that tooling corrections reliably prevent recurrence. This work is performed while maintaining HellermannTyton's Quality and EHS certifications and supporting all applicable corporate policies, procedures, work instructions, and required documentation.

Essential Functions

• Rapidly assess tooling-related factors for prioritized customer complaints, QIPs/CS2, hold tickets, QES escalations, and recurring production issues.
• Inspect molds, cavities, components, hot-runner systems, vents, gates, shutoffs, parting lines, slides, cooling circuits, and related tooling for abnormal conditions.
• Review maintenance history, damage records, shot counts, prior repairs, spare-component usage, and recurring defect patterns to develop evidence-based hypotheses.
• Coordinate mold studies, bench inspections, dimensional checks, supplier support, and production trials with Manufacturing Quality and Processing.
• Identify wear, damage, contamination, thermal, alignment, cooling, and maintenance mechanisms that may create or allow defects.
• Design and implement permanent tooling countermeasures, including component redesign, material/coating changes, maintenance standards, inspection triggers, and error-proofing.
• Define risk-based preventive and predictive maintenance requirements using event-based triggers where appropriate.
• Verify tooling corrective-action effectiveness through controlled trials, inspection evidence, production results, and recurrence monitoring.
• Identify and develop the improvement of equipment, processes, and methods.

Other Functions

• Support urgent mold troubleshooting, containment, and safe return-to-production decisions.
• Develop standard inspection criteria, troubleshooting guides, and lessons learned for recurring tool failure modes.
• Coordinate external toolmakers and technical suppliers when specialized support is required.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Success in this role will require

• Strong knowledge of injection molds, mold components, hot runners, machining, venting, cooling, fits, tolerances, and common wear/failure mechanisms.
• Ability to interpret part and tool drawings, tolerances, dimensional results, and maintenance records.
• Ability to plan tooling investigations and trials that isolate causes and generate objective evidence.
• Working knowledge of preventive and predictive maintenance strategy, spare-parts planning, and repair documentation.
• Strong mechanical problem-solving, technical writing, project-management, and cross-functional communication skills.
• Ability to move quickly on urgent quality risks while maintaining safe work practices and disciplined change control.

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Tooling, Mechanical, Manufacturing, Plastics, or a related engineering discipline; equivalent advanced tooling experience may be considered.
• 2+ years of mold design, tool engineering, mold maintenance, injection molding, or comparable tooling experience.
• Demonstrated experience diagnosing tool-related defects and implementing mechanical countermeasures.
• Experience with CAD, dimensional inspection, tolerance analysis, and tool-tracking or maintenance systems preferred.
• Strong written and verbal communication and project-management skills.
• Must have a valid driver’s license, an acceptable driving record, and adequate insurance.

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