Tooling Engineer

Ultradent Products•Salt Lake, UT

12h

About The Position

This person will facilitate the fabrication of injection molding tools for plastic injection molding. This position will include vendor selection, conceptual design of tooling, selection of hot runner system, project management of tooling fabrication, and implementation of tooling into the manufacturing processes. This position is a Day Shift, Monday-Friday. Under general direction, this individual can expect to be responsible for or involved in the following,

Nice To Haves

BS Degree in Engineering, Plastics or related Technical Degree
Hands on experience in the fabrication of plastic injection mold tooling
10 years’ experience in engineering role
15 to 20 years’ experience working within the molding industry or specific to mold tooling.

Responsibilities

Guide all efforts pertaining to the design, sourcing, maintenance and repair of injection molds within established mold build standards.
Coordination of all tooling RFQ’s
Lead the design review effort on sourced tooling before mold build kick off.
Capable of estimating tooling expense pertaining to new or reworked efforts
Capable of guiding the design of tooling in the interest of the product and manufacturing requirements.
Serve as a technical resource internally
Experience with plastic injection molding and processing
Experience with Solid Works
Continuous improvement on existing tooling
Manage the tooling supplier base
Capable of sample evaluations (dimensional, cosmetic) and coordinating tooling rework to correct non-conformance's
Project/Program coordination – customer, supplier, vendor, employee interface as needed outside of tooling engineer responsibilities.
Support the Tooling Maintenance department as needed
Monitor construction of injection molds.
Monitor project schedules with tooling suppliers and ensure that projects are completed on time and per design requirements
Ability to live Ultradent’s core values of care, integrity, hard work, innovation and quality.
Support in other aspects of the tooling department where experience and desire exude.