Sr. Plastics & Composites Engineer
Company: Prestige Staffing
Location: Augusta
Posted on: May 28, 2023
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Job Description:
Sr. Plastics & Composites Engineer
HYBRID: Augusta, GA 30917 Must be onsite 3 days a week
Relocation Package included
Direct Permanent Position
Club Car is seeking an experienced Plastics & Composites Engineer.
This role will drive leading edge technologies in the area of
plastics/composites, mature those technologies, and deliver
technical expertise/support to deploy them within new product
development, value engineering, and quality/reliability related
projects. This job will require experience and knowledge in plastic
and composite part design, material selection, processing, tooling
design, failure analysis, joining/decorating experience, and
testing of polymer based materials. You should be willing and able
to manage/execute multiple projects simultaneously while
identifying new technologies/trends in the plastics/composites
industry to keep Club Car products on the leading edge.
Essential duties and responsibilities
- Identify, screen, and execute new technologies and capabilities
across plastics/composites/polymers across all Club Car
products.
- Establish and lead technical and strategic relationships with
outside partners, industry experts, labs, and universities to
coordinate and deliver new technologies and advancements in polymer
based materials and processes.
- Create technology roadmaps and align them with product roadmaps
to enable the development of advanced technology and capabilities
ahead of program needs while deploying recently developed
technology and capabilities into new product development
programs.
- Manage and execute work for new product development projects,
quality/reliability projects, and cost improvement programs that
involve design and application of plastic and composite
components.
- Interact directly with our cross-functional teams including
global integrated supply chain teams to effectively contribute to
new product development and support of quality, reliability, and
cost reduction projects.
- Interact with raw material suppliers, molders, and mold builders
to coordinate and manage the external deliverables through the
product development process.
- Use appropriate analytical and test methods in designing parts,
selecting appropriate manufacturing materials and processes, and
writing test plans to ensure that the product meets or exceeds
customers' requirements. You should have experience with the full
spectrum of thermoplastics, from commodity grades to specialized
engineering grades, as well as thermosets, composites, and
elastomers.
- Manage analysis of competitive materials technologies.
- Manages timelines for design, fabrication, and qualification of
plastic/composite products.
- Facilitate technical design reviews as part of the product
development process and facilitate design reviews with external
suppliers for tooling and molding of plastic/composite
products.
- Identify components that could be converted to a polymer based
material to reduce weight, reduce cost, consolidation of parts,
improve reliability, or simplify the manufacturing and assembly
process.
- Plastic part design, processing, and in-depth
knowledge/experience with the following processes - injection
molding, blow molding, thermoforming, rotational molding,
extrusion, compression molding (both thermoset & thermoplastic),
DLFT molding, transfer molding, high pressure RTM, RIM, basic
composite processes, and all hybrid or subset types of these
processes.
Minimum qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Plastics, Composites, or Polymer
Engineering with 7+ years of driving innovation, product
development, and deployment of advanced technology in the
plastics/composites industry.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- Deep understanding, knowledge, and application experience with
thermoplastic and thermoset materials - from commodity grades to
complex engineering grad
- Process knowledge for injection molding, extrusion, compression
molding, blow molding, thermoforming, and other common processes
used for the manufacturing of products made from polymeric
materials.
- Knowledge/experience with various processes and materials used to
manufacture products made with continuous fiber composites.
- Experienced with coordinating external work with Universities,
Consortia, National Labs, and other External partnerships.
- Program/project management skills with an understanding of stage
gate product development processes.
- Experienced with value chain analysis methodology and value
engineering.
- Proven ability to drive innovative ideas/solutions into product
designs.
- Pro/ENGINEER CREO - Surfacing and large assembly modeling
experience.
- Experienced in running analysis with Mold Flow Insight.
- Experienced with guiding and understanding Finite Element
Analysis (FEA) for part optimization with polymer based products
and materials.
- Demonstrated problem solving and analytical skills in order to
resolve technical issues.
- Six Sigma problem solving familiarity desired, certification a
plus.
- Up to 25% travel may be required, including international
travel.
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