Tool Engineering Manager

Join Montaplast’s Global Advanced Industrial Engineering Team as a Tool Engineering Manager, leading tooling engineers and overseeing global injection mold tooling programs from initial quotation through production launch.

Travel Requirements

• This position requires domestic and international travel, typically up to 50%, to provide hands-on technical support at customer, toolmaker, and Montaplast manufacturing locations. Travel may exceed 50% during critical project phases

Key Responsibilities

• Independently conduct part feasibility reviews and Design for Manufacturability (DFM) analyses, including tooling actions, to identify potential risks and recommend design improvements
• Develop tooling concepts, specifications, cost estimates, and project timelines. Prepare requests for quotation (RFQs) incorporating requirements from Manufacturing, Assembly, Product Engineering, and other departments
• Manage tooling design, builds, trials, validation, engineering changes, and production handover while ensuring compliance with established budget, timing, quality, and supplier performance targets
• Communicate technical requirements and instructions to internal teams and suppliers, substantiate recommendations to customers, document engineering decisions, and resolve technical risks or conflicting requirements
• Lead and train current and future tooling engineers, establish priorities, and coordinate international engineering teams and toolmakers
• Maintain Montaplast of North America (MoNA) standards and support root-cause analysis and lessons-learned teams

Required Qualifications

• Significant injection tooling experience from concept through production approval, including direct responsibility for global tooling projects
• Strong mold design and molding knowledge, with the ability to interpret engineering drawings, geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T), and mold-flow results. Experience with CATIA or Siemens NX
• Demonstrated experience leading technical teams, managing engineering projects, and coordinating tooling suppliers, with strong communication skills and a commitment to continuing education
• Practical application of plane and solid geometry, trigonometry, fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions
• Engineering or related technical degree, or equivalent training and hands-on experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Engineering or related technical degree, or equivalent training and hands-on experience
• 10+ years of tooling experience
• Direct personnel management experience
• Experience with automotive plastics and APQP/PPAP processes
• Moldmaker certification
• Experience with tooling builds and production launches in low-cost countries

The responsibilities outlined above are not all-inclusive and may evolve based on business and organizational needs.

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Montaplast of North America is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Pay: From $110,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee discount
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Work Location: In person