Plastic Tooling Engineer

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Position: Plastic Tooling Engineer

Description:

You will be a part of a collaborative environment contributing to the creation, evaluation, and implementation of end-to-end manufacturing solutions for Apple’s Acoustic & ICD (Inter-connector devices) modules. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional stakeholders in Quality Engineering, Global Supply Management, Product Design, and Industrial Design in order to ensure our manufacturing solutions meet our product quality, cost, yield, capacity, schedule, and environmental goals.

Responsibilities:

1. Evaluate product and industrial design goals to understand the dimensional, cosmetic, and functional priorities for the product.
2. Collaborate with Global Supply Managers and Apple’s manufacturing suppliers to align on a manufacturing development strategy with clear goals, deliverables, and schedules.
3. Identify and validate suitable fabrication equipment and processes to meet all Apple design and operational requirements.
4. Develop and document processes including all parameters, consumables and secondary operation requirements to meet defined specifications.
5. Conduct process optimization DOE’s, using data-driven and hands-on approaches together to find solutions to complex challenges.
6. Communicate ongoing process development status to cross-functional teams and lead discussions to align design requirements with manufacturing capability.
7. Willingness to travel internationally to support manufacturing partner sites and collaborate with in-region team members.
8. Familiarity with a phase gate product development approach.

You may be asked to lead development in one or more of the following areas:

1. Tooling manufacturing machine: machining process and accuracy by process, machine brand and application.
2. Plastic material related: typical resin type, supplier, shrinkage selection, amorphous, crystalline/semi-crystalline materials characteristic and key points.
3. Injection molding process basic knowledge: injection machine selection key tips, injection machine type and troubleshooting basic knowledge.
4. Plastic tooling design related: single shot, double shot, LSR, insert-molding, tool design experience, DFM working experience and Mold-flow basic knowledge.
5. Control (SPC) data analysis. Identify automation opportunities and justify automation projects based on automation line efficiency metrics.
6. Tooling issue FACA experience: dimension and cosmetic typical issues FACA analysis capability.

Minimum Qualifications:

• BS or MS Engineering (Plastics Engineering; ME, Chem E).
• Minimum 8 years plastic tooling (injection molding preferred) experience in the molding and/or plastic materials industry. High gloss cosmetic part tooling engineer experiences are a plus.
• Able to communicate (verbal and written) technical information in English. Fluency in Mandarin is a plus.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Excellent knowledge of plastic materials and design for manufacturing in terms of geometry and cosmetic quality.
• Experience debugging complex tools and processes.
• Experience processing a wide variety of materials.
• Experience in handling multiple tool development programs with regional and overseas vendors is preferred.
• Mold Flow analysis capabilities are a plus.
• Be able to work independently or within a team. Host the meeting and do the presentation, & use concise one-pager for technical related communication.
• Able to travel up to 25% of the time.
• Experience in massive data analysis, coding and machine learning would be a plus.