Your Job
Our Little Rock, AR is seeking a Tooling Engineer to coordinate, direct and lead all tooling activities to ensure optimum engineering of all programs and projects to meet customer and manufacturing requirements.
Our Team
This position will be reporting to our New Product Introduction Manager. This position may include customer interface, resolution of design issues and working with other Phillips-Medisize facilities and internal customers in a courteous, timely and cost-effective manner.
What You Will Do
- Develop tooling manufacturing timelines and communicate progress and/or changes on tooling to key stakeholders/business partners.
- Follow up on tooling to ensure compliance with company standards in design, tool build and tool build schedule.
- Evaluate tooling orders to determine whether tooling should be manufactured in-house or procured from outside vendor.
- Actively pursue avenues to reduce tool build time and costs.
- Support CAPA and RCA activities.
- Actively participate in continual improvement/innovation initiatives.
- Utilize Solidworks or equivalent CAD software and Mold Flow software.
- Actively support production/manufacturing on all tooling related issues.
- Support, and occasionally, lead Tooling Council initiatives or continuous improvement activities.
- Support the Global Cost Development (GCD) process to establish tooling cost, part cycle times, estimates, project options, and design alternatives.
- Throughout projects, identifying and planning safety into work activities to improve performance and comply with expectations around responsible use of resources.
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- Understanding of tooling types and classifications, multi-shot tooling and part DFM
- Minimum of (5) years of injection mold tooling experience
- Knowledge and experience of scientific molding practices and process development
- Experience communicating with internal & external customers.
- Able to travel approximately 20% to vendors and other Phillips-Medisize facilities based on project needs.
What Will Put You Ahead
- Excellent analytical and creative problem-solving skills.
- Experience with LSR tooling and processing
- Strong self-starter, planning, and organizational skills to meet goals and deadlines.
- Communicate with humility and willingness to listen before you start problem solving.
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Hiring Philosophy
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Who We Are
As a Molex company, Phillips-Medisize mobilizes and deploys specialized capabilities and services across highly regulated industries, including health care, regulated consumer, automotive and defense. We design, develop and create innovative and life-changing medical technologies for millions of people around the globe.
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Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please visit the following website for additional information: http://www.kochcareers.com/doc/Everify.pdf