General Description

• The Molding Process Engineer supports the Pre-Production team to ensure they develop and produce quality products in an efficient and safe manner utilizing proven scientific methods and processes (mold designs, tooling, and operational process controls).

Responsibilities

• Provide technical support on Multi color and single-color injection molding
• Provide injection molding technical support to the Pre-production area.
• Improve scrap and efficiency in the Pre-production area.
• Control and develop molding machine process parameters.
• Introduce new product injection molding tooling.
• Perform DOE in order to optimize processes with tooling on tool modifications for process improvements.
• Complete new tool design reviews.
• Participate in New product tooling tryouts.
• Selection of all new molding machines and auxiliaries
• Control tool data and process management Interface and manage tool and process sign off in the operating plant
• Provide efficiency improvement ideas
• Comply with the quality and environment standards procedures and instructions (those applicable)
• All those activities generated as a result of changes, requirements and/or improvement in the process of the applicable area.
• Robot programming and EOAT repair.
• Perform any other additional duties as assigned by management

Job Requirements

Work Experience

• 1-3 years experience in an injection molding preferred but not required

Education

• Preferred B.S. Degree in Plastics or Mechanical / Industrial Engineering with 3+ years’ experience with Injection Molding of High-Performance Polymers; or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Strong and diverse technical background in injection molding processing, tooling, equipment, materials, manufacturing and quality.
• Self-starter must be able to work with little direction and with a high level of self-motivation.
• Excellent computer skills, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.
• Demonstrated superior communication (written and verbal), teamwork, and organizational skills.
• Ability to lead others, responsibility may include indirect supervision of process technicians.
• Must be able to multi-task in a fast-paced production environment while offering motivation and technical support to other team members.
• Demonstrated ability to think out of the box and recommend options.
• Troubleshooting machine, robot and molding process