Job Description

The Lead Tooling Engineer will be responsible to guide Tooling construction and improvement activities and maintain overall standards. This person will be need to lead on DFM, Mold Design Reviews, propose changes to Mold and Tool parts and create Mold Tool maintenance plans.

• Responsible for ensuring company\'s standards are followed for asset delivery.
• Global technical liaison for internal and external stakeholders
• Directs teams on Molding & Tooling best practices.
• Participate for RFQ\'s, Initiation to PQ, to product release and first runs.
• Advises on vendor selection
• Accountable for new Molding asset delivery
• Supports sites with engineering hiring
• Can lead development projects
• Escalation support for serious breakdowns including root cause & corrective action as required
• Support sites on Mold Tooling Vendor escalations
• Support sites with identifying, defining & executing Downtime, Scrap & OEE projects
• To conduct training on Scientific Injection Molding Methodologies including random audits
• Close collaboration on RFQ\'s, DFM\'s, Design Reviews, FOT, MFAT, and Mold Validations
• Identify, new technologies and applications that meets company\'s requirements
• To provide support to other sites through Q&A global process platform

Well known MNC in the plastic injection molding industry |Attractive remuneration packages

• BS in engineering or related technical field.
• 10+ years\' experience in an injection molding manufacturing environment, last 7 years MUST be on the Mold Tooling Engineering Area of regulated industries such as Medical Devices or Automotive.
• 7 of the last 10 years of experience MUST be directly on the Tooling Area of Plastic Injection Molding in regulated industries such as Medical Devices or Automotive
• 5+ years\' experience in collaborating with technical groups such as Automation, Tooling Eng, Process Eng, Maintenance Eng, and Tool Room Eng., on the validation and implementation of new projects.
• Experience with tooling vendors selection based on product requirements
• Experience leading tooling constructions with tooling vendors.
• Knowledge of materials (resins) and their effective characteristics on the Molds and equipment, such as steel selection, shrinkage, demolding angle, vents, gates, etc.
• Experience with Overmolding Molds and two-shots Molds
• Experience with multicavity valve gated molds
• Able to interpretate Mold filling simulations on Moldflow and Molex software.
• Able to operate design software such as SolidWorks and ProE to review and modify designs.
• Experience leading Mold design reviews systematically.
• Experience on Creation of Mold Standards for Injection Molding Molds
• Strong knowledge of the stages for mold acceptance, from DFM to Tool maker acceptance to Production Facility release.
• Predictive and corrective maintenance of injection molding Molds and its main components. Knowledge of levels of Molds PM, and common mold repairs.
• GD&T understanding
• Experience identifying Molds improvements to correct issues on molded components
• Strong analytical, organizational and project management skills to work with projects in different sites.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities
• Be able to effectively communicate on English and Local Language
• Travel requirements are from 25% to 50%, based on projects workload, and his/her ability to effectively work remotely with other sites, customers, and suppliers.
• Self-starter and able to work in teams with corporate technical and strategic leaders

Our client is an established MNC in plastic injection molding industry. They are currently expanding their operations and are looking for highly capable individuals to take them to further heights.

• Strong opportunities for growth
• Attractive remuneration packages

Michael Page