Tooling Engineer Lead

Core Responsibilities

• Developing and implementing tooling strategies to support production goals.
• Manage new tool construction projects.
• Collaborating with engineering and production teams to ensure efficient tooling design and implementation.
• Manage the tooling repair department.
• Monitoring tooling performance and identifying areas for improvement.
• Designing and developing new tooling, fixtures, and gages to support production activities.
• Creating and maintaining documentation for all tooling and processes.
• Analysing data to identify areas for improvement and making recommendations.
• Collaborating with suppliers to ensure quality and reliability of tooling.
• Research technologies for enhanced Mold repair, maintenance and construction of new and existing Molds and ensure improved performance.
• Collaborate with engineering to assure new and existing product and tool designs are moldable and suggest design changes or alternative processes.
• Proactively seek opportunities for Continuous Improvement by researching new technologies for improvements to product, Molds, materials, and manufacturing.
• Collaborate with vendors to bring alternative methods, materials, and equipment to manufacturing to improve Molds and Mold maintenance.
• Assist manufacturing in process improvement.
  
  

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related field.
• 15 years’ experience in the Injection molding industry with focus on tool design.
• 10 years in supervisory and management capacity.
• Strong project management skills.
• Direct hands-on experience in Mold design and construction is a must.
• Proficient with 3D modelling software.
• Ability to read and interpret Moldflow analyses.
• Background in working with various Mold material and metal types.
• Advanced experience in both cold runner and hot runner manifold systems.ss
• Strong analytical, creativity, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience collaborating with teams of engineers and technicians.
• Excellent written/verbal communication skills, and superior interpersonal skills for interaction with all levels of personnel and contacts within and outside IWT.
• Proficient in presentations, technical reports, and situational analysis.
• Good working knowledge of plastics manufacturing processes including injection molding, extrusion, blow Mold, thermoform and others.
• Background in working with various polymers.
• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Travel is a critical part of this role and can be every week depending on situation.
  
  

MUST HAVE

• A bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related field.
• 15 years’ experience in the Injection molding industry with focus on tool design.
• 10 years in supervisory and management capacity.
• Strong project management skills.
• Direct hands-on experience in Mold design and construction is a must.
• Experience with 3D modelling software.
• Ability to read and interpret Moldflow analyses.
• Experience in working with various Mold material and metal types.
• Advanced experience in both cold runner and hot runner manifold systems.
• Experience collaborating with teams of engineers and technicians.
• Experience of plastics manufacturing processes including injection molding, extrusion, blow Mold, thermoform and others.
• Experience in working with various polymers.
• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Travel is a critical part of this role and can be every week depending on situation
  
  

Skills: project management,engineered labor standards,microsoft powerpoint,plastics manufacturing processes,teams,injection molding,cold runner systems,hot runner systems,tooling strategies,tool design,3d modelling software,mold design and construction,microsoft word,microsoft excel,moldflow analyses