Tooling Engineer

The Tooling Engineer performs a variety of duties including equipment and tooling trouble shooting, guidance and liaison to product operations, working on scrap reduction, profit retention, continuous process improvement and implementation of new production launches. Provides manufacturing line support with training, documents, and maintenance to improve efficiency and product quality. Additionally, this position designs and develops packaging to ensure that HMUS’s finish good products as well as incoming component parts reach their destination on time and free from defect.

Responsiblities:

1. Prepare reports and attend meetings to support current and new model business performance (NPL. 5ZQA, VA, PBM, Program Reviews, Task Force…)

2. Design, spec, procure, implement, and provide basic line support for new model processes, tooling and equipment as required to meet business objectives.

3. Maintain current higher level assembly production equipment and provide training to engineers and maintenance.

4. Analyze current and new model quality issues to determine root cause and support implementation of countermeasures and foolproofs and improvements to protect product quality (including equipment buyoff).

5. Develop strategic planning for standardization of equipment, programming, fixtures, visual aides, checklists, spare parts and general documentation.

6. Prepare PIR responses for quotation of new business and design change proposals.

7. NPL – Attend meetings, select vendors, coordinate prototype builds, design tooling, preparing documents, developing and purchasing new equipment and fixtures.

8. Attending QRQC’s and QRSC’s, determining root causes, and implementing the recommended actions.

9. Updating/maintaining capacity charts, building layouts, and developing future business plans based on capacity and layout improvements.

10. Creating and maintaining paperwork (TPD’s, MCN’s, PFEMA, Process Flows, ETS’s, TADS) and Benchmarks.

11. Attend improvement team meetings and activities including training for supervision and technicians.

12. Attend planning meeting and mold trials at outside tool shop facilities to evaluate actual mold against specifications. Supports mold maintenance, repairs and changes.

13. Design and develop returnable packaging in response to PIRs meeting customer’s needs.

14. Perform other duties as assigned.

Working Conditions:

This work is performed in a general manufacturing environment.

Education and Experience:

· Have one to two years vocational technical training or an associate degree in a related discipline with more than seven years of experience in a related area of responsibility.

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· If above education requirements are not met, must have a minimum of eleven years of experience in a related area of responsibility.

· Have experience working with integrated computer programs and/or applications

· Have strong communication, administrative, and organizational skills, and possess the ability to coordinate multiple projects and programs

· Be able to pass all background checks and pre-employment tests, including any required drug test