Tooling Engineer

We’re a company of agile, customer-oriented individuals with a shared commitment to integrity, servant leadership, and teamwork. Our associates take pride and ownership in their work, and innovate to provide the highest quality, life-enhancing medical technology in the world. Together, We’re in It for Life.

The Tooling Engineer provides vital engineering solutions to our manufacturing locations so they can become best in quality and productivity, through a systematic mold build and qualification approach, while utilizing new molding technologies, and strategic vendor partnerships. GTS drives synergies between the manufacturing plants and external customers by providing competitive, high quality, highly repeatable tooling in order to achieve medical solutions for molded products.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Tool fabrication cycle:
  
  • Support Project Managers throughout the tool build cycle
  • Project initiation
  • Lead technical reviews with the customer and mold shop
  • Manage DFM including Drawing reviews
  • Tool design & compliance w/ tooling manual 
  • Management of fixture & EOAT design & fabrication
  • Managing mold shops deliverables & expectations
  • Confirming receiving site requirements including press designation
  • Work with Process Engineer on requirements throughout design and development.
  • Tool development, review of metrology data for OOS conditions and development into grooming plans.
  • Provide engineering support for business development to sell tooling solutions and solve tooling issues.
  • Provide engineering support for existing tool modification and repairs. 
  • Travel to various customer sites, tool fabrication sites and Viant production facilities as needed.
  • Supervision of tooling bench inspection upon receipt at Viant facility and instruction to tool room employees for correct preparation to get the molds ready for validation as needed. 
  • Other related projects and tasks as assigned.
• Project and timeline management:
  
  • Gant chart for tool build schedules
• Quality/Metrology Support:
  
  • Provide assistance in how to measure dimensions
  • Support correlation between Viant manufacturing locations, mold shop, & customer
  • Support measurement fixture and  EOAT designs
• RFQ support
  
  • Concept mold configurations and requirements for quoting
• Project Scope:
  
  • Minimum 10 active tools at a given time

Education, Experience, Skills, and Knowledge:

• 5-7 years tooling engineering experience
• Certification from a trade school in mold making, or Associates Technical degree minimum, or completion of a 1,000 hour or 1/2-year mold making apprenticeship.
• 5+ years of experience in mold repair and in a molding environment, design, fabrication, qualification, validation of molds, etc. Engineering degree a plus
• Capability to specify, review and improve tool designs
• SolidWorks CAD software abilities, Excel, PPT, Word and MS Project
• Knowledge in FDA, QSR, and ISO 13485 medical device regulations and standards.
• Experience with preparation, tracking and communication of project plans that specify project phases, tasks, task interdependencies, durations, resource assignments, and costs. 
• Experience with coordination of tasks and schedules.
• Strong communication skills when it comes about expressing ideas, recommendations and solutions clearly, logically and concisely in both written and verbal communications. 
• Ability to interface effectively with other people throughout various levels of the organization as well as outside individuals (clients, vendors, contractors, etc.)

Benefits: 

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits-effective date of hire!
• Company-paid life insurance and disability benefits
• Generous Paid time off and 10 paid Holidays
• 401k Plan with Company Match
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Voluntary Universal Life and Long-Term Care
• Voluntary Legal Plan
• Pet Insurance
• Home Ownership Program

We offer market competitive compensation. Potential salary range for this role is $80k-$110k.  Actual pay will be determined based on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors permitted by law.