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Larkhall, Scotland, United Kingdom

• Take responsibility for the development, commissioning, and validation activities related to injection mould tooling.• Ensure that all moulds are delivered to the manufacturing department in a manner that guarantees robust solutions meeting the required quality, cost, and capacity targets within the agreed business timeline.• Collaborate with the Sales team and provide support during the Request for Quotation (RFQ) process.• Assist Process and Quality Engineers during trialling stages and coordinate tooling development with Suppliers and Customers.• Focus on project management for tooling, including budget control, ensuring timely and cost-effective implementation of new tooling and modifications.• Prepare RFQ documentation and distribute it to the supply base for quotation.• Conduct feasibility reviews and Design for Manufacturability (DFM) assessments at all stages, resolving any issues before proceeding with manufacturing or changes.• Review and approve tool designs for manufacturing.• Coordinate trials internally and externally.• Manage and conduct audits of Suppliers.• Provide quotations for modifications and Engineering Change Notices (ECN), assess feasibility, and oversee implementation.• Support the Toolroom in the event of major breakdowns.• Ensure procedural compliance by maintaining up-to-date documents and records, including drawing control.• Collaborate with the Quality department on specific tasks, ensuring adherence to systems and assisting in the closure of corrective actions.

Bötzingen, Germany

Conducting RFQ and supplier selection according to the part complexity.Supporting R&D designers on DFM and Preparing tooling Feasibility studyBudget preparation for new tool development and modification.Tool development planning and development stage monitoring .Mould flow stimulation checking and validation on gate position, fill time, defects…etcSupplier selection for tool development as per customer requirements.Project update and reviewing in PLM system.Plastic material selection and supporting R&D team during part development.Technical assistance and supporting R&D team for product design modification as per tooling requirements.Liaise with Manufacturing personnel to confirm that tooling designs are sympathetic to planned process flow.Utilize, as appropriate, DFMEA & PFMEA methodology in achieving optimized part and tool design.Attend T0, and subsequent supplier-based trials, as necessary to confirm compliance to all acceptance criteria elements. Specification sheet Preparation according to the project requirements.Tool design review and validation to ensure the quality.Supplier monitoring and development to meet the requirements.A conduit between Product Design and supplier for iterative CAE inputs and oversee appropriate execution.Checking and validation moulding process and add necessary changes if required.Continuous Improvement in the moulding processes for ongoing cost effectiveness.Approval and implementation of engineering changes and new development.

Pune Area, India

• Monitoring the development of plastics moulds and dies through regular visits for timely delivery of parts.• Providing technical support to supplier during sample development.• Approval of plastics parts and moulds, analysis of assy. & testing Problems and get rectified the same before starting the mass production.• Benchmark tool cost with similar parts and set the target pricing for tools. Target cycle time for molding .• Interaction with R& D and Product Engineering during component styling and later during part design. Give inputs regarding manufacturability, cost down & value engg.ideas etc. .• Tooling budget preparation & get the approval from the management.• RFQ to be given to tooling vendors and / molding vendors.• Costing & negotiation of plastics moulds & dies with tooling vendor’s.• Source Identification, Cost Estimation and negotiation. Mold design approval. Attend the molding trials. Certification of the mold for production.

Pune Area, India

•Plan, develop, layout, assemble, maintain, fabricate and repair tools as well as dies.•Ensure to study tool die making parameters like sketches, blueprints and models etc.•Establish and operate all machine tools variants required to attain work assignments.•Perform simple harden, welding operations and draw as necessary.•Help design and prepare special safety equipment's for tool die making.•Support all production departments with issues relating to operation of specific tool, jig, die or fixture.

Bachelor Of Technology - Btech, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Principles of engineering, physics and materials science for the design, analysis, manufacturing.

Advance Diploma In Tool And Die Marking, Tool And Die Technology/Technician

Traditionally, working from engineering drawings developed by engineers and technologists, tool makers lay out (mark out) the design.