Highlights
This is a hands-on opportunity for an engineer with plastics and injection molding experience who enjoys solving complex design challenges, coordinating multiple stakeholders, and seeing projects move from concept to finished production. You’ll have significant exposure to tooling design, mold development, prototyping, customer engineering, material selection, and manufacturing process improvement, with opportunities to work on both domestic and international projects.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | South Elgin, IL |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1969 |
| Website | http://www.sterling-engineering.com |
Description
Title: Project Engineer - Plastic Injection Molding
Location: South Elgin, IL
Pay Rate: $100,000-135,000 + bonus structure
Hire Type: Direct Hire
Pay Rate: $100,000-135,000 + bonus structure
Hire Type: Direct Hire
Comprehensive Benefits Package including:
Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO
Matching 401k up to 6% with Safe Harbor
Several paid company days off in addition to paid holidays and PTO
Yearly compensation increases
This is a hands-on opportunity for an engineer with plastics and injection molding experience who enjoys solving complex design challenges, coordinating multiple stakeholders, and seeing projects move from concept to finished production. You’ll have significant exposure to tooling design, mold development, prototyping, customer engineering, material selection, and manufacturing process improvement, with opportunities to work on both domestic and international projects.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead new program development from initial quotation through production.
- Serve as a primary engineering contact for customers and tooling suppliers.
- Analyze customer prints and tooling quotation requests and prepare tooling quotations.
- Procure tooling and coordinate the design and build process.
- Ensure new tooling is designed and built to support robust, reliable manufacturing processes.
- Conduct design reviews and preliminary tool reviews with cross-functional teams.
- Place tooling purchase orders and monitor supplier progress, quality, timing, and compliance with agreed designs.
- Conduct pre-sampling and post-sampling meetings with project teams.
- Partner with Sales on technical design projects, including prototyping and design recommendations.
- Support metal-to-plastic conversion projects and identify opportunities created through product design changes.
- Develop piece-part designs and identify qualified sources for design, tooling, and prototyping activities.
- Perform mold simulation analysis using Moldex3D.
Qualifications
- Must have a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Plastics Technology, or a related field or equivalent professional experience.
- Must have at least 3–5 years of plastic injection molding experience.
- Strong computer skills, including CAD—preferably SolidWorks but open to other design software
- Broad understanding of plastic materials, including PP, ABS, Acetal, and Nylon.
- Ability to manage projects, coordinate with multiple stakeholders, and follow through on deadlines.
- Willingness and ability to travel a couple of times a year domestically and internationally when required (Italy, Mexico, China).
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
About Company
Sterling Engineering has been a trusted partner for engineering, project management, and staffing solutions for over five decades. We provide exceptional engineering/technical recruitment and engineering project services to clients nationwide:
- Engineering & Technical Recruitment - With our focus on engineering, technical, and IT, Sterling has the in-depth knowledge, industry expertise, and robust employee pipeline it takes to rapidly find talent for even the most difficult to fill positions. Sterling’s extensive recruitment methodology allows us to engage the most talented employees in the marketplace. We offer exciting work and career-building opportunities for our candidates, along with expert support at every step of the process.
- Engineering Project Services – Our experienced, multi-disciplined team of project managers, engineers, and designers, led by licensed Professional Engineers (PE), provide project management, engineering, design, and Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation (CQV) to manufacturing, OEM, and R&D customers. We work on complex, highly technical projects across a number of industry sectors, and our ability to scale and seamlessly integrate at multiple levels of your organization is what differentiates us.
Sterling offers a unique combination of engineering solutions and Best of Staffing level service to help our clients and talent achieve their goals.