Job Description

Manpower Engineering is exclusively partnering with an industry leading, established and growing company in Cuba City, WI on a highly visible and direct hire/permanent Senior Project Engineer – Plastic Injection Molding position that has strong professional development and growth opportunities.

The company is family-owned/privately held, has a very strong track record of success and consistent year-over-year growth, and the amount of new business is significant. They’re a custom manufacturer of injection molded thermoplastic products, producing extremely close tolerance parts for a wide variety of industries. Come and work for a company that continues to grow and flourish and where their people make a difference. People join our client (and stay) because of their collaborative workplace, drive for innovation, and family-oriented culture.

• Compensation Plan: Depending on qualifications/experience, this opportunity can offer up to a base salary of $142,600.  
• Full Benefits Package.
• Relocation assistance is available.

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Senior Project Engineer – Plastic Injection Molding is responsible for managing the introduction of new projects through various stages, managing future engineering changes, assisting in resolving any manufacturing issues associated with the tools, and implementing continuous improvement activities.

Responsibilities:

• Obtain information from the appropriate manufacturing, quality, internal engineering, and purchasing to provide the optimum proposal to the customer.
• Perform all cost estimating functions during the development cycle using established APQP procedures, establish all standards for each job, from material to process to production.
• Place all new tooling & fixture builds through the company’s APQP process and be responsible for all mechanical design functions and tooling program management. Schedule all samples and provide support at all stages of the process. Communicate and document pertinent set-up and processing information to molding technicians.
• Update routings, BOM’s and BOO’s to reflect engineering change requests; oversee updating of engineering print files & revisions to engineering prints, as well as reviewing and updating standards for accuracy and reducing manufacturing variances.
• Provide proposals for annual continuous improvement and cost reduction opportunities.
• Interact with manufacturing personnel to establish standard processes to ensure customer expectations are being met, and to provide ongoing support for production requirements.
• Establishes all quality plans for each part (FMEA’s, Control Plans, Work Instructions, Work Cell Layouts and PPAP’s) and works as team leader with manufacturing & QA to obtain completed documents.
• Strives to obtain continuous education & maintenance of high level of education related to current and new tooling, machinery, materials, and processing.
• Travel to customer and vendor locations or other company facilities.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or a related field is a plus.
• 3+ years of experience.
• Have a clear understanding of the injection molding process for thermoplastic materials.
• Experience with tooling is preferred.
• Demonstrated experience operating within a team environment that emphasizes collaborative decision making and coordination between multiple functions both inside the business and at the corporate level.
• Experience with Mold Flow, mold design, and DFM a plus.
• Experience in Engineering Project Management, PMP a plus.
• Experience using Creo, Solidworks, or similar CAD/CAM software a plus.
• Experience reading and interpreting 2D part prints with associated GD&T.
• Must have a record that demonstrates customer focus, strategic thinking, results driven, and problem solving.
• Excellent written and verbal skills.

Job Tags

Permanent employment, Full time, Relocation package

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