Tooling Engineer

Tooling Engineer

Williamsburg, MI

The Tooling Engineer is responsible for the development, launch, and ongoing technical support of injection molds and related production tooling. This hands-on role works with Product Development, Manufacturing, Quality, Purchasing, production teams, and external tool shops to ensure tooling meets product requirements, cost targets, timing, and manufacturing standards.

Key responsibilities

• Support the review and approval of mold concepts and designs, including gating, cooling, ejection, venting, slides, lifters, and sensing.
• Serve as technical support for tooling-related manufacturing issues, providing hands-on support for assembly lines, automation, fixtures, and mold related equipment.
• Assist in maintaining and iterating the tooling specifications and technical requirements for new injection molds.
• Review product designs for moldability, tooling feasibility, tolerance capability, and manufacturing risk.
• Support tool build, sampling, qualification, changes, and delivery with external tool suppliers.
• Support mold trials, dimensional corrections, process development, and production validation.
• Assist Tooling Manager and Program Managements with tooling timing, cost, design changes, open issues, and supplier deliverables.
• Support root-cause analysis and corrective actions for tooling-related quality, scrap, downtime, cycle-time, and repeatability issues.
• Support development of a strategic mold supply base to ensure GTP sources jobs to the right supplier at the right cost
• Ensure tooling documentation, design reviews, trials, and change records are complete and current.
• Lead Engineering Work Order support for Manufacturing and Automation, ensuring timely response, technical accuracy, and effective closure.

Additional responsibilities

• Support tooling quotations, supplier selection, cost analysis, and sourcing decisions.
• Identify opportunities to improve mold reliability, maintainability, performance, and cycle time.
• Participate in APQP, DFMEA, launch-readiness reviews, continuous improvement, and tooling standardization activities.
• Travel to suppliers, customers, and manufacturing locations as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical, Plastics, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related field; equivalent tooling experience may be considered.
• Demonstrated experience in tooling, injection molding, manufacturing engineering, and plant-floor problem-solving. Equivalent experience demonstrating strong mechanical and hands-on aptitude will also be considered.
• Demonstrated ability to use Unigraphics (NX).
• Experience supporting automation and assembly systems, not just molds and tooling.
• Skilled in supplier management, cost reduction, and launch support.

Specific Skills

• Microsoft Office Suite skills.
• Able to connect technical decisions to operational and financial results.
• Ability to maintain professional working relationships.
• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
• Detail orientated.

Organizational relationships

• Works closely with Product Development, Manufacturing Development, Automation, Quality, Program Management, Sales/Application Engineering, suppliers, and customer engineering contacts as needed.
• Supervision received: Tooling Manager
• Supervision exercised: None

EOE (Veteran/Disability)