Injection Molding Technical Manager

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership while engaging plant molding champions and other molding coordination team members to develop, implement and improve molding department standards including:
  • Molding room safety
  • Molding equipment – injection molding machines, molding robots, auxiliary equipment
  • Molding floor plans – molding machine work-cell layouts, molding room floor plan
  • Infrastructure systems – process water, chilled water, electrical, compressed air
  • Setup reduction – mold change, end of arm tooling change, material change
  • Material handling systems – system design, equipment, material purging method
  • Training – mold technician training, supervisor training, molding engineer training
• Achieve corporate and plant molding department performance targets
  • Metrics include safety, molding labor cost per standard hour, scrap percentage, purge percentage, molding setup times, etc.
• Coordinate performance improvement plans at and provide extra support at “focus plants”
  • Review molding room safety and operational performance across all plants
  • Cook up regular molding champions meetings
  • Coordinate presentation of new molding department standards, systems, etc.
  • Coordinate presentation of other significant molding related projects around company
  • On-site support of manufacturing plants
  • Audit plants to standards
  • Develop and implement action plans to address audit findings
  • Develop and implement action plans to implement existing and new standards
  • Assist plants with developing, authorizing and implementing major capital projects, including budget and timeline development, and participation in project from concept to production
• Assist with the development & training of Interns & EITs on the Manufacturing Coordination team
• Participate in development of molding department innovation and new processes / technologies
• Maintain relationship with key molding equipment manufacturers, in terms of pricing and service part and service tech availability

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering
• Five years technical experience as a molding engineer and/or molding department manager in an automotive environment
• Supervisory or managerial experience of engineers in an automotive environment
• Current technical and hands on knowledge of molding operations
• Wittmann molding robot programming experience preferred

Skills

• Injection mold processing skills preferred
• Project management skills
• Proficiency in Windows software – Excel, Word, & Power Point
• Independent thinking with strong analytical and problem solving skills is essential
• Ability to communicate clearly and professionally both verbally and in writing at all levels in the organization
• Outstanding leadership, team building, coaching and decision making abilities
• High energy level and the ability to lead and motivate others
• A minimum score of 50 on the Wonderlic Select Assessment (26 on the cognitive portion)

Benefits

• This position typically does require up to 25% travel