We are looking for 2 – 3 Injection Mold Tooling Engineers to work out of our Farmington location. These positions will be working full-time hours, Monday – Friday. The start time is 7:30 am. These are contract to direct positions, depending upon performance.
Responsibilities:
- Interact with account management to ensure timely and accurate delivery of cost estimates for new tooling and engineering changes. Provides technical assistance to the sales group where applicable.
- Proactively lead project feasibility activities internally/externally to ensure product and tool designs are optimized. Working with the customer bringing to closure to all feasibility and design issues.
- Act as project leader to ensure robust planning, tracking and reporting of all critical project activities.
- Ensure that projects are efficiently managed and meet or exceed all timing, quality and budgetary expectations.
- Injection Mold Tooling Engineers/Tooling Program Leaders attend injection mold tryouts to insure tooling meets the customer standards. Documenting all issues, performing root cause analysis and driving all open issues to resolution.
- Report on all critical project issues regularly to department management and to the customer.
- Bring an entrepreneurial work ethic and proactively engage in continuous improvement efforts that foster an ever increasing competitive advantage in the mold construction and departmental business processes.
Qualifications:
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- Journeyman Mold Maker, Mold Designer or equivalent with a minimum of 10 years of experience in the injection mold making industry or a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering with 5 years of experience.
- Possess a thorough understanding of every aspect of the mold manufacturing process: reading and interpreting customer mold standards/expectations, facilitating and leading mold design process, and design reviews.
- Previous experience planning, directing and following manufacturing activities such as: machining operations, assembly operations and mold functional validation events.
- Capable of leading engineering feasibility events to ensure that all critical product design issues are identified and resolved for optimizing mold design, manufacturability, and process capability.
- Highly organized and efficient in developing and reporting project critical elements (i.e. open issues, project timing plans, budget variances, etc.) to management, internal and customer teams.
- Injection Mold Tooling Engineers/Tooling Program Leaders must be willing to travel up to 25% throughout North America and overseas.
- Proficient with Microsoft Word, Excel, Project and Power Point.
Preferred Skills:
Batton Technical is an engineering and Manufacturing Staffing Company. We’re the trusted source of excellent engineering talent for OEMs, Tier-one Suppliers, and Manufacturing clients. We’re known for our integrity, and high service to our clients and employees alike.