DFM Engineer

Location: Kazakhstan

Department: Sales, EU

For our Sales Team department we are looking for a Molding/Casting DFM Engineer with immediate effect to further expand our business. You will support or manage complex and critical projects and work with internal teams, customers and production. In addition to working with customers and production partners, you will actively shape your work environment and collaborate with all critical interfaces. Good ideas are implemented quickly at our company and do not have to go through various steering committees or management meetings to be reviewed several times, checked again and then perhaps decided upon. Your working day is exciting and varied, the environment is international.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing incoming 3D CAD part design for Injection Molding, other tooling technologies;
• Check Injection Molding Design for Manufacturing (DFM) reports and challenge manufacturer’s technical solutions;  
• Communicate with external customers via video calls and explain DFM reports/gather feedback and discuss technical solutions with manufacturers across Europe and Asia;
• To optimize part 3D CAD design and improve part design feasibility issues, if necessary;
• Participate in meetings to fix quality claims for Injection Molding, High Pressure Die Casting, other tooling technologies together with a cross-functional team and external customers;
• Attend pre-sales meetings with Sales Team and external customers via video-calls,  support technical questions/answers for potential projects.

A successful candidate:

• Higher engineering education - thermoplastic processing engineer, plastic part design engineer, mechanical design engineer (automotive interior, IoT devices, similar);
• Experience in an engineering role on a production floor with plastic processing  OR in a development of parts suitable for molding/casting processing;
• Expert knowledge of thermoplastic processing: plastic part design rules for a feasible injection molding processing, injection molding tool design basic structure and design, thermoplastic processing most common quality issues and root causes, understanding of Mold Flow analysis and it results,
• Understanding of various plastic post-processes: pad-printing, silk-screening, spray painting, chroming, hot foil stamping, etc
• Knowledge of other tooling technologies like Vacuum Casting in silicone molds, Compression Molding, Investment Casting, Sand Casting, Metal Injection Molding will be a benefit
• Strong multicultural communication skills in English with ability to convince, justify and defend ideas and technical solutions in front of external / internal stakeholders.

Working conditions:

• Remote full-time job.
• Working hours according to Central European Time (start / end is negotiable)
• Fixed rate depending on the career level.
• Significant annual loyalty bonus.
• Overtime hours are possible for this position.
• Corporate Laptop, 3D CAD software.
• Free corporate language courses.