Job Overview

This role serves as a key link between Advanced Development (AD), Product Development, and Manufacturing teams, driving roadmap-based development projects and advancing molding technologies to improve manufacturing processes, quality, cost efficiency, and tolerance control. The position provides expert knowledge in molding processes, project management, and manufacturability optimization to support prototypes, product development, and the deployment of new or optimized manufacturing technologies across sites.

Job Requirements

Key Responsibilities:

• Has a strong impact on Advanced Development (AD) roadmap-driven development projects.
• Drives for excellence in existing molding technologies and methods.
• Strives to implement optimized or new manufacturing technologies to provide improved processes and tolerance control.
• Acts as a liaison between the Advanced Development (AD) team and the manufacturing site teams to collaborate with Product Development in the optimization of part and product designs for manufacturability, providing molding process expert knowledge and general knowledge of molding processes to realize product samples and prototypes.
• Provides molding process expert knowledge and general knowledge and project management to liaise the Advanced Development team and the manufacturing site teams, deploying optimized or new molding processes to realize AD projects.
• Acts as the binding element between Product development and AD & Manufacturing Process engineering (MPDE), ensuring the effectiveness and efficiency of this critical interface.
• Designs, develops, and qualifies molding processes in compliance with TE EH&S, quality, and production standards, as well as recognized best-in-class and industry standards.•
• Documents all related processes in applicable TE systems.
• Supports supply chain to verify related suppliers’ compliance and capability.
• Initiates and implements molding-related programs to continuously improve quality, cost, and cycle time.
• Maintains and adheres to all appropriate specifications, regulatory and customer requirements.

Qualifications:

• Minimum 5 to 8 years of related experience.
• Bachelor’s Degree (Mechanical Engineering or related) is required
• Master Molder cert. (Level 1 or equivalent) is a plus; must know how to run a mold from start to qualified part.
• Demonstrates injection molding process expertise (process optimization, capability, troubleshooting).
• Deep technical knowledge of mold design, simulation (Moldflow), mold/tool fabrication, scientific injection molding, molding processes (injection, insert, two-shot, etc.), molding equipment and ancillaries (FANUC, Engel, etc.). Formal education/training in Scientific Injection Molding is essential
• Tight tolerance electrical connector experience is a plus!
• Highly filled LCP material experience is a plus. Also have basic knowledge of processing most common polymers like Nylon6/66, High Temperature Nylon (like PA6T, PA9T, PA10 T), PPS, PEEK, etc., other high-end engineering. Thermoplastics
• Working knowledge of quality tools (FMEA, Six Sigma, DOE, 8D/Continuous Improvement), is a plus!

What your background should look like

Generally requires Bachelors degree in appropriate field or local equivalent with a minimum of 3 years of progressively responsible professional level experience

Competencies