Injection Molding Design Expert/Tooling Engineer (224645) Automotive, Medical, Appliance, Consumer Goods / Blow, Injection, Rotary, Extruded, Stack, Thermo Set, Thermo Plastic / Will Relo
One of the most knowledgeable injection molding engineers I have ever interviewed. He is an accomplished industry professional with expert-level skills in injection molding processes, tooling design, problem-solving, engineering, and employee relations for Fortune 500 brands. He has supported both domestic and international plastic product molding clients in Automotive, Medical, Appliance, and Consumer Goods. He has taught corporate engineering department personnel courses on Amorphous vs. Semi-Crystalline Polymers properties, characteristics, basic part Design techniques for making quality molded parts, and the basic injection molding process at the press.
He has a reputation for identifying areas for improvement and implementing solutions that enhance performance, improved processes, quality, cycle time, and achieve business goals. He is skilled in working with a variety of plastics and molds including, B-Series, A-Series, closure, stripper, shuttle, unscrewing, stack, hydraulic, mechanical, extruded, vertical, horizontal, blow, rotary, Thermo-Set, and Thermo-Plastic Resin molds. He is accomplished in a large variety of software programs and quickly explains how he adapts and translates files between programs. He has customer-facing experience at all levels and trains client engineers on how to identify and solve process and mold issues.
• Teaching all Corporate Engineering personnel plastic courses on Amorphous vs Semi-Crystalline Polymers properties, characteristics, & basic part Design techniques for quality plastic parts.
• Reduce outgoing tooling cost to new in-house capabilities.
• Review and follow all new molding tooling cradle to grave.
Oversee Tool Design, CAD, DFM mold review, mold flow analysis, EOAT for molds with press, tooling standards compliance
• Attending all APQP Meetings and reviewing of program timing, and updating management weekly.
• Try-out Reports, and quoted engineering changes.
• Reduce molding scrap in-house with process personal and press updates.
• Create, document, develop, and deliver procedures to ensure the tooling meets all targets relating to quality and cost.
• Lead individuals and team meetings when implementing engineering changes, and improvement.
• Review new mold designs, jigs, and managed the secondary fixtures,
• Reviewed customer specifications, blueprints, shop data and interfaced with shop personnel to resolve design problems related to dimensional tolerance, manufacturing procedures, and production efficiencies.
• Identified problems with implementation, or available resources that may affect schedule or budget.
• Saved $500k annually on outgoing mold repairs done in-house.
• Tooling, & Part Design Expert – I can take a mold/design, improve it and make it run premium.
• Designing Injection Molds
• Oversee DFM, & Mold Flow Analysis.
• Work with Design Review, & Approval
• Automotive Plastic Components – Tier 1 Clients
• Medical Plastic Component –
• Consumer Goods Plastic Components – Fortune -500 Customers were Baxter, Colgate, Pharmaceutical Medical Plastics devises for Schering Plough, Johnson & Johnson, & Gatorade
• Appliance Plastic Components -Whirlpool, Maytag
• Providing Input on New or Alternative Materials
• Interacting With Client Engineers – GM Lordstown
• Part Feasibility
• Testing Molds
• Optimizing Injection Molding Parameters
• Investigating New Technologies
• Developing New Solutions with Existing Technology
• International Client Support – Japan, China, Italy, Mexico, Canada
• Updating Existing Molds
• Mold Design Layouts
• Hot Runner Molds
• Cold Runner Molds
• Insulated Runner Molds
• Single Cavity Injection Mold
• Multi Cavity Injection Mold
• Family Cavity Injection Mold
• 2 Plate Injection Mold
• 3 Plate Injection Mold
• Stack Injection Mold
• Collaborating With Client Engineers
• Improving Design, Manufacturability, or Cost Reduction.
• CAD/CAM Programming Experience
• Tolerance Analysis
• Tooling Trials
• Experimental Designs
• Improving Yields
• Improving Cycle Times
• Providing Engineering Support
• GD&T
• Mold Flow Analysis Software
• Engineering Change Requests
• Safety Operating Process Manuals
• Quotation, & Cost Breakdown
• Program Leadership
• Delivering Cost Savings
• Providing Customer Support
• Developing Internal Plastic Training
• Oversee Supplier Support in the Design
• Troubleshooting on the floor
• Process Improvement
• Training Classes for in-house Engineers on Product Design, Properties of Plastics
• Hands-on work with Inj. Process Personnel.
• Aid in Engineering Drawings
• Keep Abreast of Tool and Die Industry Technology and Advances in Components / Resins
• Hands-on 5-S Tool Room
• Scrap Reductions
• Crack Analysis
• Mold Cooling Analysis
• 5-S Injection Presses
• Plan Tools Repairs W/Production
• Flow Analysis Software
• 3D Modeling Software
• Pro/Engineer
• Autodesk Moldflow Software
• AutoCAD Software
• Mastercam Software
• Inventor Software
• Solidworks Plastics Standard
• Cad-key
• Solid Works
• Software Translators and Universal Step Files
• UG Software for Automotive (Big-3)
Materials
• Acrylic (PMMA)
• Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS)
• Nylon (Polyamide, PA)
• Polycarbonate (PC)
• Polyethylene (PE)
• Polyoxymethylene (POM)
• Polypropylene (PP)
• Polystyrene (PS)
• Thermoplastic Elastomer (TPE)
• Thermoplastic Polyurethane (TPU)
• Rubber
• Latex
EDUCATION
• Currently enrolled Bachelor of Business Administration (BSBA) / Youngstown State University, OH
• Associate of Science (AS) in Mechanical Engineering / Rock Valley College, Rockford, IL