Tooling Engineer/Project Manager

• Evaluate customer products and part designs to identify manufacturability concerns, tooling risks, cost-reduction opportunities, and methods to improve quality and shorten lead times.
• Review and approve injection mold designs to ensure compliance with customer requirements, engineering specifications, and internal design standards.
• Schedule, facilitate, and lead project review meetings while maintaining overall oversight of project activities, deliverables, and milestones.
• Collaborate with tooling suppliers to manage the design, development, modification, and approval of injection molds, from concept through production release.
• Partner with manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and administrative teams to support operational objectives and successful program launches.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for customers and suppliers, ensuring project deadlines, quality expectations, and performance objectives are consistently achieved.
• Utilize ERP, APQP, and project management systems to communicate project status, track progress, and maintain detailed project schedules and timelines.
• Develop customer quotations, cost analyses, tooling budgets, and subcontractor estimates for new tooling programs and tooling transfers.
• Manage project financial performance, including budget tracking, cost control, forecasting, and profitability analysis.
• Monitor and control project scope changes, ensuring schedule impacts, costs, and risks are appropriately documented, communicated, and resolved.
• Proactively identify project risks and issues, develop mitigation plans, resolve competing priorities, and escalate concerns when necessary.
• Coordinate all aspects of engineering changes and customer-driven modifications, including impacts to cost, quality, timing, and delivery commitments.
• Create and maintain project documentation, order entry records, and electronic project files throughout the program lifecycle.
• Ensure successful completion of tooling programs, including mold qualifications, tryouts, validation activities, and first article inspections.
• Coordinate procurement activities, supplier engagements, raw material requirements, and outside services to support project schedules and delivery commitments.
• Support additional engineering, project management, and continuous improvement initiatives as required.

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