Tooling Engineer

JOB DESCRIPTION

Plastic Tooling Engineer (contract) 

• Ryzen's client is seeking an experienced Tooling engineer to join the tooling team, a hands on tooling engineer to work within the tooling department.
• Tooling engineer would preferably come from a Tier 1 team who has experience in design buy off, tool tracking and tool buy off.
• Someone from either a tool maker or tool design background with at least 10 years’ experience of practical build and buy off.
• Plastic molding tooling experience in automotive would be preferred but other disciplines are encouraged to apply.
• Tooling Engineer / Journeyman experience would be preferred but is not essential.

Responsibilities:

• Reporting to the  Tooling Manager.
• To ensure all manufacturing of tooling and fixtures is correct and the processes and quality of the tooling is to industry standard.
• Perform tooling and fixture buy off in the supplier with the SQ engineer.
• Produce reports for department heads and Tooling manager on all projects and tooling in manufacture.
• Perform DFM on parts with the vehicle engineers to ensure that all parts are manufacturable and have undergone an industrialization process.
• Help and Instigate any tooling or fixture standard updates.
• Keep all tooling records up to date with the relevant information and logged into the database with Ryzen's client property labels and pictures.  

• 6+ years of hands-on experience involving specification, and qualification of tooling.
• Degree or technical qualification.
• Excellent communication skills with ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders, including C-level, engineering, legal, finance, manufacturing, and logistics.
• Experience collaborating with supply management, product design, industrial design, and manufacturing groups.
• Manage tool design, fabrication, process development, and qualification onsite at various Tier 1 suppliers
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office and Google - 
• Ability to perform financial analysis and cost justifications

Pay rate: $84.94 per hour