Project Engineer

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About the role

Essential engineering contact for customers and tooling suppliers. Responsible for analyzing customer prints and tool quotation requests, preparing tool quotations, and procuring tooling. Ensure new tools are designed and built to meet requirements for a robust and reliable manufacturing process.

Responsibilities

• Main engineering contact for customers and tooling suppliers.
• Analyze customer prints and tool quotation requests, prepare tool quotations, and procure tooling.
• Ensure new tools are designed and built in accordance with requirements for a robust and reliable manufacturing process.
• Conduct design and preliminary tool reviews to ensure consensus of the multi-disciplinary team.
• Place tool purchase orders, expedite, follow up with visits to tooling sources, and monitor tooling progress and compliance.
• Conduct pre-sampling and post-sampling meetings with project team members.
• Advise the Project Manager on customer approval or necessity for deviation to minimize delays.
• Assist Sales in design-related projects such as prototyping new parts, providing design recommendations, metal-to-plastic conversion, and identifying new opportunities through design changes.
• Identify sources for design, build, and prototyping activities.
• Perform mold simulation analysis utilizing Moldex 3D.
• Maintain a positive work atmosphere by acting and communicating professionally with customers, clients, co-workers, and management.
• Grow job-specific knowledge and use tools to identify and assist with continuous improvement.
• Comply with safety regulations and maintain clean and orderly work areas.

Physical Requirements

• Sometimes sit and use a keyboard.
• Occasionally stand, bend at the waist, twist/turn, kneel/crouch, climb.
• Occasionally lift below and above the waist, lift above the shoulder, push, pull up to 30 lbs.
• Occasionally use manipulative finger and foot movement, repetitive hand/wrist movement, squeeze up to 30 lbs.
• Occasionally exposed to fumes, odors, dusts, oil/grease, humidity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Plastics Technology, or completion of a related apprenticeship or a 2-year technical degree plus 5 years of related working experience.
• 3-5 years of plastic mold injection experience.
• Strong computer skills in CAD (preferably SolidWorks), Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook.
• Overall understanding of numerous raw materials (PP, ABS, Acetal, Nylon).
• Strong communication skills and professional demeanor with customers, suppliers, and co-workers.
• Highly energetic with a positive attitude.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Must be able to travel both domestically and internationally when necessary.

Pay

Starting pay: $100,000 - $135,000 (based on experience).

Benefits

• Blue Cross Blue Shield Medical, Dental, and VSP Vision Insurance.
• 401(k) matching: Hoffer Plastics matches $0.50 per $1.00 contributed each payroll period up to 6%, plus a Safe Harbor contribution of 3% of annual eligible earnings.
• Paid Life Insurance in the amount of 1.5 times basic annual salary.
• Short-term and Long-term Disability.
• 2 weeks paid vacation and up to 5 days of Illinois Paid Leave.
• 9 paid holidays.
• Reimbursements for tuition, prescription safety glasses, steel toe shoes, and fitness.

Schedule

1st shift.