Senior Molding Engineer- Strategic Sourcing

The Cooper Companies • Trumbull, CT

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About The Position

CooperSurgical is a leading fertility and women's healthcare company dedicated to putting time on the side of women, babies, and families at the healthcare moments that matter most in life. As a division of CooperCompanies, we're driven by a unified purpose to enable patients to experience life's beautiful moments. Guided by our shared values - dedicated, innovative, friendly, partners, and do the right thing - our offerings support patients throughout their lifetimes, from contraception to fertility and birth solutions, to women's and family care, and beyond. We currently offer over 600 clinically relevant medical devices to healthcare providers, including testing and treatment options, as well as an innovative suite of assisted reproductive technology and genomic testing solutions. The Senior Molding Engineer, Strategic Sourcing serves as a plastic molding/tooling technical resource on the Strategic Sourcing team, supporting engineering activities related to CooperSurgical's global supply chain. This position interacts with all Cooper Surgical locations and departments as well as external suppliers worldwide. This role is responsible for providing technical leadership for supplied product changes, improvements, transfers, and other strategic sourcing initiatives. This role is focused primarily on plastics related tooling, materials, components, and assemblies, but will also work with other commodity types. The Senior Molding Engineer will partner with Global Category Managers to find innovative collaborative ways to reduce risk, achieve cost savings, and improve the supply chain.

Requirements

• 10+ years industry experience in plastic injection molding manufacturing engineering and tooling.
• 3+ years experience in medical device manufacturing/engineering or other highly regulated industry.
• 3+ years experience in a supply chain engineer, supplier development engineer, or supplier quality engineer capacity, preferably in the medical device industry.
• Bachelor's Degree in Plastics Engineering/Engineering Technology or equivalent required.
• Practical knowledge of plastic mold design/mold building, repair, and maintenance.
• Practical knowledge of Scientific Injection Molding concepts and experience with use.
• Practical knowledge of medical device validation process, protocols/reports, conducting IQ, OQ, PQ.
• Proficient with design tools appropriate to discipline (SolidWorks, Molding simulation, GD&T, FMEA, engineering drawings and documentation).
• Superb oral and written communication skills including presentation skills.

Nice To Haves

• Black Belt/Green Belt certification or Lean Six Sigma experience desired.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for supplied product changes, improvements, transfers, and other strategic sourcing initiatives.
• Partner with Global Category Managers to find innovative collaborative ways to reduce risk, achieve cost savings, and improve the supply chain.
• Lead cross-functional teams to solve problems using problem solving methods, root cause analysis, and corrective/preventive action procedures.
• Manage projects of moderate to high complexity and build and maintain project schedules.
• Identify cost reduction opportunities in partnership with Category Managers, internal stakeholders, and suppliers.
• Assist with the selection of highly qualified medical device material/component/assembly suppliers.
• Research and understand raw materials used in manufacturing and make recommendations for alternates.
• Lead mold/tooling design activities in coordination with suppliers and oversee supplier Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT).
• Provide input to the CSI supplier asset replacement plan.
• Achieve program objectives regarding transfer and new startup of tooling/equipment at supplier locations.

Benefits

• Outstanding total compensation plan.
• Medical coverage.
• 401(k).
• Parental leave.
• Fertility benefits.
• Paid time off for vacation, personal, sick and holidays.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Miscellaneous Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree