Engineer, Plastics Tooling

Dover Corporation • Cypress, CA

3d • $100,000 - $120,000

About The Position

OK International is a global manufacturer of electronic benchtop tools and precision dispensing solutions, with Metcal electronics bench tool solutions and Techcon dispensing systems. The company operates facilities in Cypress, California; Chandlers Ford, UK; and Shenzhen, China, and is part of Dover Engineered Products, a segment of Dover Corporation.

The Engineer, Plastics Tooling establishes guidelines and work practices to ensure suppliers consistently meet quality standards. This role manages supplier and alternate-material qualifications, conducts supplier-quality and tooling audits, and works with plastics suppliers to improve quality, delivery, and cost. It manages injection molding processes and tooling development, leads product-line, tooling, and equipment transfers, and develops manufacturing processes and solutions to improve quality and reduce costs.

The position also supports new product introduction and design for manufacturing, application testing and engineering, material testing and flow analysis, and customer complaint resolution. It manages project operations, status communications, documentation, action items, and deadlines, and helps ensure compliance with standard policies and procedures. The role reports no direct supervisor in the provided description.

Requirements

• 5–7 years of experience in injection molding processes and tooling development, productivity, and cost-saving strategies in a manufacturing environment.
• Direct involvement in qualifying tooling during molding processes.
• Experience working with multi-cavity hot-runner and cold-runner tooling operating in 100–400-ton plastic injection molding machines.
• Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering or Industrial Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Set guidelines and general work practices to ensure suppliers consistently meet quality standards.
• Manage new supplier qualifications and alternate material qualifications.
• Perform supplier quality audits and tooling audits.
• Work with key plastics suppliers to develop a lean culture that drives continuous improvement in quality, delivery, and cost.
• Establish application testing protocols and processes to quantify product performance capabilities.
• Manage injection molding processes and tooling development.
• Lead transfers of product lines, tooling, and equipment, both internally and externally.
• Drive cost-saving projects to achieve productivity targets, process standardization, and best practices.
• Develop innovative manufacturing processes and solutions to reduce costs and improve product quality.
• Implement material testing and material flow analysis.
• Provide new product introduction support and lead design-for-manufacturing initiatives.
• Establish partnerships with internal and external resources.
• Support customer complaint resolution.
• Assist with application engineering efforts to improve product performance.
• Manage day-to-day operational measuring and monitoring of projects.
• Communicate project status and resolve issues that impede deliverables.
• Ensure action-item owners manage recovery plans as applicable, projects are organized, and deadlines are met.
• Provide weekly product development status meetings, identifying project phase, completed tasks, and project specifications.
• Ensure project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately.
• Develop an understanding of the products.
• Comply with and help enforce standard policies and procedures.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• 401(k) savings plan with employer contributions.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Wellness programs.
• Health savings account and health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts.
• Company-paid short-term and long-term disability.
• Company-paid employee basic life and AD&D insurance.
• Supplemental employee and dependent life insurance.
• Optional accident, hospital indemnity, and critical illness insurance.
• Adoption, surrogacy, and fertility benefits and assistance.
• Commuter benefits.
• Parental, military, jury duty, and bereavement leaves of absence.
• Paid time off, including 10 paid holidays per calendar year, paid vacation, and paid sick leave.
• Business travel services.
• Employee discounts.
• Employee assistance program, including company-paid counseling sessions and legal services.
• Discretionary performance-based bonus eligibility.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level