Molding Process Engineer
About The Company
At RESRG Automotive, you will be part of a growing, team-focused manufacturing organization that values safety, respect, quality, innovation, and continuous improvement. We offer opportunities to make a visible impact on production performance, collaborate with experienced cross-functional teams, and grow your career in a dynamic automotive environment. Our culture supports professional development, community involvement, and a strong commitment to employee health, wellness, and safety, along with competitive compensation and benefits.
About The Role
Join RESRG Automotive as a Molding Process Engineer and play a key role in launching, optimizing, and sustaining high-quality molded components in a fast-paced automotive manufacturing environment. This hands-on engineering role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex processing challenges, improving safety and quality, mentoring technicians, and driving measurable improvements in scrap, uptime, tooling performance, and overall equipment effectiveness. RESRG Automotive is seeking you to join our team as a Molding Process Engineer in our Morehead, KY facility!
Responsibilities
- Lead safe, reliable molding operations by reinforcing safety expectations, learning from prior incidents, and supporting prevention-focused improvements.
- Improve molding performance through scrap reduction, cycle time optimization, downtime reduction, mold changeover improvement, and OEE initiatives.
- Launch and validate new molds through tooling trials, process development, documentation, and feedback to improve mold design and production readiness.
- Develop, validate, and maintain robust molding processes using scientific molding principles including decoupled molding, cavity fill studies, DOE, process windows, and capability analysis.
- Analyze production data, scrap trends, downtime events, and quality performance metrics to identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
- Partner with operations, quality, tooling, maintenance, and corporate engineering teams to improve manufacturability, process capability, and customer quality outcomes.
- Create and maintain process books, setup documentation, tooling trial reports, and standardized procedures for new and existing production.
- Train, coach, and mentor molding technicians to strengthen technical capability, troubleshooting skills, and consistent execution across shifts.
- Coordinate tool changes and press support based on production priorities, customer needs, and operational performance goals.
- Ensure compliance with environmental, safety, quality, PPE, and work instruction requirements while actively identifying opportunities to improve processes.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering preferred; equivalent hands-on molding, tooling, manufacturing, or production leadership experience will also be considered.
- Experience with injection molding, tooling trials, process development, troubleshooting, scrap reduction, or equipment/process optimization.
- Working knowledge of scientific molding principles.
- Strong mechanical aptitude, analytical thinking, and ability to use data to identify root causes and improve process performance.
- Clear communication skills with the ability to document processes, share technical information, and support technicians, supervisors, and cross-functional partners.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced manufacturing environment while balancing production support, continuous improvement, and new mold launch activities.
Skills
- Master Molder 1 or 2 certification
- Experience with hot runner systems, valve gate controls, automation interfaces, and multi-cavity production tooling
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Flexible spending and health savings accounts
- Life insurance and ADD
- Disability insurance
- Retirement plan
- Paid vacation and time off
- Educational assistance
- Paid parental leave and adoption assistance