• Director of Tooling & Engineering

    Alliance Precision Plastics (Rochester, NY)


    Director of Tooling & Engineering

     

    Rochester, NY (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1220+Lee+Road+Rochester+NY+USA+14606)

     

    Job Type

     

    Full-time

    Description

    RESPONSIBILITIES:

    + Working with Project Engineers, overall responsibility of the tooling, Engineering, and Project Management activities of the Company

    + Day to Day management of Project Engineers that lead the design, mold build, and qualification activities from first article to customer acceptance to approved production.

    + Overall project management tracking for new domestic and offshore mold builds, assuring accountability to costs and profit through tool approval.

    + Working with the Toolroom Manager, overall management responsibility for toolroom operations including performance to standards and profitability.

    + Integral part of RFQ Team to evaluate new opportunities, generate tooling quotations, and identify engineering design and moldability issues with potential new work

    + Able to perform and assist in Tool design reviews.

    + Able to run CAD software, preferably Solidworks.

    + Able to perform and analyze Mold Flows.

    + Familiarity with the many types of injection molding resins.

    + Recommend resins to customers suitable for their application.

    + Work with customers on new project opportunities and legacy parts.

    + Create DFM’s and analyze those provided by Tooling vendors and internal.

    + Working with Production and Process Engineering, facilitate process improvements to reduce cycle times, improve tools, improve quality and reduce production cost of existing and new parts

    + Responsible for providing leadership in achieving state-of- the -art technical capabilities in Injection Molding and Tooling.

    + Responsible to drive continuous improvement efforts and be a leader of existing and new lean teams and promote this through the Engineering and Tooling departments.

    + Must be able to multi-task and work successfully in a fast-paced environment, with strong attention to detail.

    Requirements

    QUALIFICATIONS:

    Education

    + BA or BS with a concentration in Engineering or Management, or equivalent experience

    Experience

    + Ideally 10+ years in plastic injection molding and tooling or manufacturing environments

     

    Skills

     

    + Ability to communicate with internal and external customers