Technician, bachelor degree or equivalent

Experience:5 to 10 years of significant experience in Moulds and Injection moulding process fields

• Product design for injection process manufacturing
• Moulds design & manufacturing
• Moulding process settings optimization for cosmetic & geometry
• Injection moulding process control & in mold sensors use for tuning & production.
• Experience in Thick section injection molding of light blades from LED grade polycarbonates.
• RFQ & advanced phase activities for mold specification & quotation
  

  • Define molds technical specification and propose assumption with product line & purchasing teams for RFQ.
  • Define relevant assumption for PRU evaluation (cycle time, scrap rate, clamp force)
  Project activities for product & mold design
  Leads the tools design in close connection to the tool maker in order to ensure efficient product & mold engineering convergence.
  

  • Update tool specification for mold sourcing and optimize assumption for tools cost optimisation with purchasing department.
  • Support project team and design leader for product design for molding and mold design feasibility analysis.
  • Leads molds FMEA when relevant.
  • Assesses the tool design (sizing, kinematic, cooling, injection; …) to ensure compliancy with OPmobility safety rules and standards, cost optimisation and alignment with Plant operational performance (no touch, cycle time, scrap rate, tool change over, maintenance cost) and OEM product quality targets (cosmetic, geometry)
  • Prepare the EAOT / Gripper specification for supplier quotation.
  • Identify critical components of tool, propose design optimization and identified specific spare parts.
  • Assesses the injection system, hot runner concept and degating assumption with Injection & rheology Engineers
  • Assesses the mold shrinkage according to OPmobilty procedure.
  • Support SPM for tool modification negotiation.
  • Propose technical solution for continuous improvement of cost, lead time & quality during the development.
  • Raise appropriate alerts related to design for manufacturing or mold risks to project team and manage related actions.
  • Ensures weekly monitoring of toolmaker technical activities from top milling to FOT to guarantee not deviation in quality and lead time.
  • Prepare the handover of activity with ITDE & plant injection and tooling teams in order to prepare the first mold try outs and the mold transfer in plant.

  Project activities for tools fine tuning & process convergence
  Support ITDE and plant in case of specific need or hard point to manage.

  Plant support
  

  • Assists plant to improve performance & product quality after mold transfer (serial life)
  • Assists plant to integrate new injection, Mold technologies and new product concepts
  Technical activities
  

  • Analysis Mold / process failure mode and effects analysis (PFMEA) results and ensures that the critical process characteristics are implemented in the moulding tool & injection process developments.
  Standards, continuous improvement & networking
  

  • Applies HSE standards at each step of the project
  • Ensures full application of PO standards, deliverable recording, processes best practices and golden rules at every stage of the development
  • Attends to project development review (QUAD / DR)
  • Leads or participate to specific problem-solving workshops related to moulding process, tool or product quality issues
  • Share lessons learnt to central Injection & tooling team and division network for internal standards improvement (in development & production)
  • Identifies need of new technology or supplier to improve industrial performance in current and future projects.
  • Challenge toolmakers and other suppliers for tool engineering improvement aligned with PO performance & part quality targets.
  • Supports toolmakers assessments in collaboration with supplier quality and central injection & tooling team to support PO tool purchasing strategy.

• As local Injection & Tooling Engineer position, following activities to be considered

  • Adapt and improve standards according to Engineering and operation performance targets.
  • Ensure technical survey in injection & tooling scope (tool makers, tool components, processes, materials …)
  • Ensure continuous improvement of process, technologies and tools and contribute and manage central actions and projects according to central metier roadmap.
  Participate to networking in between all Injection & tooling community, identify deviation from standards, ensure golden rules and best practices are known and applied
• Experience with 2, 3 and 4 K rotational molds
• Rheology behaviour of melt plastics