Job Title: Sr. Plastics Engineer – Tooling and Process
Location: Michigan
The Role:
- Be a significant contributor to a world-class vehicle engineering team by supporting with plastics tool expertise and owning polymer-related aspects from part design for manufacturing (DFM) phase to product launch.
- Consult 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 is compliant with 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.
• • Experience with other plastic manufacturing processes and their tooling (e.g., blow molding, thermal forming, vacuum forming, compression molding, slush molding).
