JOB DESCRIPTION
Plastic Tooling Engineer (contract)
- Ryzen's client is seeking an experienced Tooling engineer to join the tooling team, a hands on tooling engineer to work within the tooling department.
- Tooling engineer would preferably come from a Tier 1 team who has experience in design buy off, tool tracking and tool buy off.
- Someone from either a tool maker or tool design background with at least 10 years’ experience of practical build and buy off.
- Plastic molding tooling experience in automotive would be preferred but other disciplines are encouraged to apply.
- Tooling Engineer / Journeyman experience would be preferred but is not essential.
Responsibilities:
- Reporting to the Tooling Manager.
- To ensure all manufacturing of tooling and fixtures is correct and the processes and quality of the tooling is to industry standard.
- Perform tooling and fixture buy off in the supplier with the SQ engineer.
- Produce reports for department heads and Tooling manager on all projects and tooling in manufacture.
- Perform DFM on parts with the vehicle engineers to ensure that all parts are manufacturable and have undergone an industrialization process.
- Help and Instigate any tooling or fixture standard updates.
- Keep all tooling records up to date with the relevant information and logged into the database with Ryzen's client property labels and pictures.
Qualifications:
- 6+ years of hands-on experience involving specification, and qualification of tooling.
- Degree or technical qualification.
- Excellent communication skills with ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders, including C-level, engineering, legal, finance, manufacturing, and logistics.
- Experience collaborating with supply management, product design, industrial design, and manufacturing groups.
- Manage tool design, fabrication, process development, and qualification onsite at various Tier 1 suppliers
- Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office and Google -
- Ability to perform financial analysis and cost justifications
Pay rate: $84.94 per hour
