Tooling Engineer HQ

Adler Pelzer USA Careers • Troy, MI

3d • Onsite

About The Position

Adler Pelzer Group, a growing global Tier One supplier of Acoustic and Soft Trim products to the automotive industry, is seeking a driven Tooling Engineer to join the team at the North American HQ in Troy, MI. The Tooling Engineer is responsible for the day-to-day management of the development and launch of tooling and projects as assigned. This role also supports the R&D team to ensure products are designed for manufacturability (DFM).

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or 5 years’ experience in tool manufacturing.
• Ability to use AutoCad, Catia, SpinFire and MS Office.

Nice To Haves

• Strong bias for action and follow-through
• Ability for international travel
• Excellent organizational and project management skills
• Hands on skills and experience with tooling and tooling materials for acoustical products and soft trim for automotive
• Good communication skills both written & oral

Responsibilities

• Reviews product drawings for manufacturing feasibility and recommends design changes as required for compliance with manufacturing capabilities, cost and product performance.
• Understands various manufacturing processes including injection molding, compression molding/pinch trim, vacuum molding, bypass trim dies, open/close pour foam tools, water jet cutting fixtures, and master check gauges.
• Recommends tooling suppliers based on their performance, quality, communication, and delivery.
• Reviews with tooling suppliers the necessary processing and design of each new tool to assure optimum performance with respect to production capability, tool durability, and tooling standards.
• Schedules and attends weekly meetings with Program Management to gather and communicate information related to assigned tooling projects.
• Reviews tooling construction progress at various tooling suppliers to assure conformance to required quality standards and timelines.
• Schedules and resolves engineering difficulties or deviations from anticipated work schedules or due dates through consultation with tool source management.
• Monitors the status of all assigned areas of their assigned tooling project through the management of data in the Tooling Tracking System (TTS).
• Completes and documents in the TTS all tooling status reports to assure program timing and to manage any deviations.
• Escalates issues of timing or other major issues to the tooling manager as soon as the issues are known.
• Manages and communicates tooling development status through the TTS and TTS Summary in weekly and monthly tooling meetings.
• Attends tooling tryouts at tool shops and plants to assure that the tool is producing a quality part per the math or print data and ensures the designated sign off of suppliers and manufacturing plant per the TTS.
• Evaluates tooling problems occurring within manufacturing plants and consults with necessary personnel regarding corrective action.
• Leads estimating the cost of new tooling and tooling requiring engineering changes.
• Travel of up to 70% is required.
• Other duties as assigned to support team goals.

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Generous benefits package
• Opportunity to be a part of a strong team
• Opportunity for career growth
• Excellent medical, dental, and vision insurance options from day one
• Generous and flexible paid time off
• 401(K) match, fully vested
• Company provided life insurance
• Short term and long-term disability insurances
• Employee assistance program
• Variety of automobile purchase discounts (Stellantis (FCA), BMW, Ford, GM, Subaru-many others)
• Tuition reimbursement
• Professional development

What This Job Offers

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