Plastic Tooling Engineer
Apple
Full-time
On-site
Hanoi, Hanoi, Vietnam
Developer
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Acting as a key interface among Worldwide Operations Team, Plastic tooling engineer is responsible for plastic tool development from support part design, tool concept & process review and define, DFM review and tool T0-Tf . This role will focus on a specific commodity and will play a critical role in the overall success of the Apple Operation.
Description
As part of a collaborative environment contributing to the creation, evaluation, and implementation of end-to-end manufacturing solutions for Apple’s Audio enclosures. You will collaborate closely with multi-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.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:
- Co work with Cupertino PD team for part design development including geometry and challenging features. Give the suggestion and modification plan from tooling perspective to make the tooling concept succeed.
- Manage molding trials for new programs, align with Cupertino tooling DRI, provide in-time feedback for corrective actions to PD and other multi-functional team.
- Work with molding process engineer establish POR process parameters for a given part to meet all Apple functional and cosmetic requirements
- Participate multi-functional team process meeting, give the idea and support related to tooling and molding stuffs. Join and widen the trouble shooting plan to speed up the issue solved.
- Act as first level engineering response to production quality issues for molded plastic parts. Determine root cause, and where appropriate, institute corrective actions.
- Collaborate with supply management, product design and quality engineering groups on material selection, design feasibility, aesthetics and production process control of new part designs.
- Participate in supplier factory audits and assessments to define their capabilities and suitability for molding Apple products.
- Take the leading role in suggesting or adopting ideas for improving productivity and quality of part manufacturing, molding and tooling techniques. As well as new tooling/molding related innovative study/applications.
- Train supplier engineers at plastic manufacturing plants in Asia to utilize new materials and processing techniques.
- Develop collaborative relationships with Apple suppliers through training and quality control visits. Will be an advisor to plants and multi-functional team members on maintaining correct controls on the processes and inspection certificates on the materials.
You may be asked to lead development in one or more of the following areas:
- Tooling manufacturing machine: machining process and accuracy by process, machine brand and application
- Plastic material related: typical resin type, supplier, shrinkage selection, amorphous, Crystalline/semi crystalline materials characteristic and key points
- Injection molding process basic knowledges: injection machine selection key tips, injection machine type and trouble shooting basic knowledge
- Plastic tooling design related: single shot, double shot, LSR, insert-molding, tool design experience, DFM working experience and Mold-flow basic knowledge
- Control (SPC) data analysis. Identify automation opportunities and justify automation projects based on automation line efficiency metrics
- Tooling issue FACA experience: dimension and cosmetic typical issues FACA analysis capability
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's Engineering (Plastics Engineering; ME, Chem E).
- Minimum 10 years plastic tooling (injection molding preferred) experience in the molding and / or plastic materials industry.
- 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.
- Able to communicate (verbal and written) technical information in English.
Key Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in managing multiple tool development programs with regional and overseas vendors is preferred.
- Mold Flow analysis capabilities are a plus.
- High gloss cosmetic part tooling engineer experiences are a plus.
- Must 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 internationally to 50% of the time.
- Fluency in Mandarin is a plus.
- Experience in AIML and lean factory would be a big plus