NPI Tooling Engineer

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Job Summary: The NPI Tooling Engineer drives operational excellence through engineering design, process optimization, and mold improvement to ensure manufacturing efficiency and quality performance. Key Highlights: 1. Drives initiatives for operational excellence and process optimization. 2. Collaborates with suppliers to ensure compliance with design standards. 3. Proposes design innovations to improve efficiency and maintenance. **Your Role** The NPI Tooling Engineer is responsible for driving operational excellence initiatives through engineering design, process optimization, mold improvement, and cost-reduction strategies. This role integrates technical problem-solving, lean manufacturing methodologies, and detailed design support to ensure manufacturing efficiency, quality performance, and successful execution of projects across production lines and tool development. **Our Team** Molex creates connections for life by enabling technologies that transform the future and improve lives. With a presence in over 40 countries, Molex offers a comprehensive range of connectivity products, services, and solutions for the data communications, medical, industrial, automotive, and consumer electronics industries. **What You’ll Do** * Support mold design improvements, design reviews, drawing validation, and engineering documentation. * Collaborate directly with mold suppliers and tool manufacturers to ensure compliance with design standards, material specifications, parting line requirements, hot runner implementation, and manufacturing. * Analyze mold-related issues (e.g., wear, cooling inefficiencies, venting, cycle time constraints) and propose technical solutions. * Coordinate drawing approvals, changes, insert modifications, and corrective actions for mold performance. * Propose design innovations that reduce cycle time, improve energy efficiency, and simplify mold maintenance. * Create or update engineering drawings, technical documentation, and engineering change requests. * Manage version control and release of 2D/3D mold designs, ensuring proper revision tracking. * Provide design recommendations to improve part manufacturability (DFM/DFMEA). * Review and approve supplier drawings, ensuring alignment with project requirements and internal standards. * Conduct time studies, capability studies, and root cause analyses (8D, Ishikawa, 5Why). * Mold qualification and transfer **Who You Are** * Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Design Engineering, or related field. * Experience in mold tooling, plastic processing, or manufacturing engineering. * Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing and OPEX tools. * Proficiency in CAD platforms (e.g., SolidWorks, NX, AutoCAD). * Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. * Effective communication with suppliers and cross-functional teams. **What Would Give You an Edge** * Knowledge of molding processes * Knowledge of scientific molding At Koch, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value, and earn rewards for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the stated range, depending on the candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please discuss them with your recruiter for more details about our compensation philosophy. **Who We Are** As a Koch company, Molex is a leading provider of connectors and interconnect components that drive innovation in electronics and support industries ranging from automotive and healthcare to consumer and data transmission. The thousands of innovators at Molex have made us a global leader in electronics. Thanks to our experienced workforce, innovative products, and cutting-edge technologies, we can offer a broader range of solutions to markets we’ve never reached before. At Koch, employees can focus on what they do best—to improve lives. Discover how our business philosophy helps employees unlock their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.