Director of Tooling & Engineering - plastic injection molding

Why this role?

• Salary $120k – $140k with performance bonus component that would typically be $5-12k
• True end-to-end manufacturing from mold design to final assembly under one roof
• Massive operational scale with 242,500+ sq. ft. and 83 injection molding machines
• 75+ years of proven excellence serving leading global OEMs
• ISO-certified quality standards ensuring precision, compliance, and reliability
• Advanced value-added capabilities eliminating the need for multiple vendors

What You Will Be Doing

• Work with Project Engineers, taking overall responsibility for the tooling, engineering, and project management activities of the company.
• Manage Project Engineers who lead the design, mold build, and qualification activities from first article to customer acceptance to approved production.
• Track overall project management for new domestic and offshore mold builds, ensuring accountability to costs and profit through tool approval.
• Work with the Toolroom Manager, taking overall management responsibility for toolroom operations, including performance to standards and profitability.
• Be an integral part of the RFQ team to evaluate new opportunities, generate tooling quotations, and identify engineering design and moldability issues with potential new work.
• Perform and assist in tool design reviews.
• Run CAD software, preferably SolidWorks.
• Perform and analyze mold flows.
• Be familiar 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 DFMs and analyze those provided by tooling vendors and internal teams.
• Work with Production and Process Engineering to facilitate process improvements to reduce cycle times, improve tools, improve quality, and reduce production costs of existing and new parts.
• Provide leadership in achieving state-of-the-art technical capabilities in injection molding and tooling.
• Drive continuous improvement efforts and be a leader of existing and new lean teams, promoting this through the Engineering and Tooling departments.
• Multi-task and work successfully in a fast-paced environment, with strong attention to detail.

Experience You Will Need

• 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.