Tooling Engineer

Job Title: Sr. Plastics Engineer – Tooling and Process

Location: Michigan

The Role:

• Support a world-class vehicle engineering team by contributing plastics tool expertise, owning polymer-related aspects from part design for manufacturing (DFM) phase to product launch.
• Collaborate with design engineers and suppliers throughout the product development process, advising on process and tooling feasibility, DFM, efficiency, and cost.
• Evaluate flow studies and mold designs before tool approval and kick-off.
• Ensure plastic tooling meets Tool Standards.
• Take a methodical approach to documentation.
• Support internal non-engineering teams and represent the material team in communication with suppliers, including on-site visits.

Qualifications:

• B.S. in polymer engineering or related field, or equivalent proven experience.
• 5 years' experience evaluating DFM and injection molding tool designs.
• Excellent knowledge of injection tooling, including technologies such as in-mold decoration, foaming, overmolding, back-injection, vario-thermal processes.
• Experience with DFM process for automotive A-surface parts.
• Experience with flow simulation software (Autodesk MoldFlow).
• Proven hands-on experience with plastic injection molding process, including process optimization.
• Exemplary verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 25% if needed.

Advantageous:

• Experience working in an automotive development environment, ideally through the complete product development process.
• Hands-on experience with the creation of MoldFlow studies, first tool trials, and tool approvals.
• Experience with tool should costing to understand the tool cost impact of part design choices.

Additional Desirable Skills:

• Experience with other plastic manufacturing processes and their tooling (e.g., blow molding, thermal forming, vacuum forming, compression molding, slush molding).