Project Manager / Tooling Engineer

Role details

Majors Plastics, Inc. is a 100% Employee Owned Custom Injection Molding Company looking for a Tooling Engineer.

*General Summary*

Majors Plastics expects its Tooling Engineers to oversee the technical development, construction and implementation of custom injection molds and secondary machinery for new and existing customer product lines.

*Essential Job Functions*

• Collaborate with customer design groups in early development stages by providing technical direction of molding issues.

• Interact with outside tooling vendors to provide detailed quotation packages to customers.

• Coordinate the development of new production tooling by providing technical requirements to the toolmaker, specific to each tool.

• Document the process of each project by providing weekly progress reports to the customer.

• Control the transfer of part data between the customer and the toolmaker.

• Control the transfer of part inspection prints and Boms between the customer and Majors.

• Interact with customers at a technical level, as required.

• Coordinate initial mold tryouts and troubleshoot, as needed.

• Coordinate preliminary test runs and collaborate with customer and toolmaker, for any pre-production changes needed.

• Re-visit project, in full production, when changes are requested by the customer.

• Maintain high scores on internal engineering surveys.

• Evaluate 2-D part drawings for proposed quality specifications and requirements; work with Q.A. to resolve any potential issues.

*Our Company offers the following benefits:*

• Employee Ownership Stock
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Health, Life, Vision, and Dental Insurance
• Business Casual Dress
• Paid Time Off
• Health Savings, and more!

*Knowledge / Skills / Abilities*

• Extensive knowledge of plastic injection mold design and construction.

• Good communication and graphical documentation skills.

• Experience with 3-D data transfers, reading and interpreting 3-D part files and blueprints.

• General knowledge of office equipment such as copier, fax, and computer knowledge with experience in Microsoft products desired.