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RUBBER MOLDING ENGINEER

Location: Vermont
Salary: $60,000 - 80,000
Relocation: Yes
Travel:

Contact:
Marc Charney, C.P.C.
mcharney@marvelconsultants.com
P: 216-292-2855 ext 104
(800) 338-1257

Requirements

  • 7 to 10 years of experience in a technical rubber injection molding role
  • Experience developing and optimizing molds and tooling
  • Proven skills in documentation; SOPs, TQM, Engineering Change Management, ISO9000
  • Background in rubber / polymer chemistry
  • Engineering degree strongly preferred

Function
The Molding Professional plays a division-wide role of technical responsibility for rubber injection molding equipment, tooling and processes. Our Molding Professional is expected to develop new molds, enhance existing molds and injection molding presses, solve complex processing issues, and evaluate molding equipment. She or he has wide organizational impact by ensuring quality, reducing scrap, reducing downtime, facilitating new product transfer from development to production and interacts with Rubber Compounding Divisions to ensure consistent rubber compound performance in injecting molding.

Mold Development:

  • In conjunction with Technical Director and mold manufacturer, assists in the development of molds to produce new products.
  • Designs, runs and documents results of acceptance tests for new molds.
  • Installs new molds in manufacturing, assist in production and cycle time optimization, produces SOP for mold (including required maintenance); supplies working mold to manufacturing as a completed turn-key product.

Mold Enhancement and Press Evaluation / Enhancement:

  • With manufacturing, evaluates existing molds and injection presses for product quality, cycle time and scrap performance; designs enhancements to molds or presses to improve operations.
  • Accepts, evaluates and implements Engineering Change Requests for molds and presses (self generated or from manufacturing / maintenance). Drives changes through design, testing and implementation. Generates or modifies SOPs based on changes. Maintains engineering records for all tooling for the division.
  • Understands press technology and emerging trends. Assesses press features and performs press experiments aimed at improving operations. Assists with the testing of new presses and makes business cases for press expansion decisions.

Process development, monitoring and documentation:

  • Develops stable processes to injection mold products on new molds or old molds. Documents processes in SOPs and trains manufacturing in their use and troubleshooting.
  • Acts as divisional troubleshooting expert for injection molding - assists in process stabilization for issues that go past plant resources to solve. Documents issues and resolutions; changes SOPs or initializes engineering change to permanently resolve issues.

Compounding interaction:

  • Acts as divisional conduit to compounding; understands and analyzes rubber compound supplied to the division for suitability in injection molding.
  • Participates with Chemists in compound optimization for current products and new compound development for new products.
  • Documents effects of compound variation on injection molding performance; shares feedback with compounding and assists in development of improvements.