Tooling Engineer- Plano

Full-time, onsite position: Monday-Friday, 8:00 AM-4:00 PM

Pay: $90,000-$105,000, based on experience

Travel: 10%-20%

About the Role

Our client is seeking a Plastics Tooling Engineer to design, develop, validate, and improve molds and tooling used to manufacture plastic components. This role supports new-product launches, production troubleshooting, engineering changes, cost reduction, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Design molds, tooling, and fixtures for plastic-component production.
• Create and modify designs using SolidWorks, AutoCAD, CATIA, or comparable CAD software.
• Interpret blueprints, technical drawings, tolerances, and tooling specifications.
• Coordinate mold design, fabrication, testing, and revisions with outside tool shops.
• Support tooling projects from design through build, validation, launch, and production.
• Conduct tooling trials and evaluate quality, performance, repeatability, and cycle time.
• Troubleshoot tooling and injection-molding issues affecting production.
• Implement changes that improve tooling efficiency, reliability, performance, and cost.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, R&D, and New Product Development.
• Maintain tooling drawings, specifications, test results, and engineering documentation.
• Manage multiple projects, priorities, budgets, and deadlines.
• Mentor junior engineers and skilled-trades employees.
• Approximately 10%-20% travel may be required to support U.S. facilities, vendors, and suppliers, with possible annual travel to China.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Plastics Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related field.
• Five or more years of tooling design and development experience in plastics manufacturing.
• Strong knowledge of injection molding, mold design, tooling materials, and related manufacturing processes.
• Proficiency with SolidWorks, AutoCAD, or comparable 3D CAD software.
• Strong blueprint-reading and technical-drawing interpretation skills.
• Understanding of steel, aluminum, plastics, CNC machining, and casting.
• Strong troubleshooting, project-management, and communication skills.
• Experience collaborating with suppliers and outside tool shops.

Preferred Qualifications

• CATIA experience.
• Injection-mold design and validation experience.
• New-product introduction experience.
• Experience coordinating projects with domestic and international tool shops.