Mold Flow Specialist - Tooling VTCA

at  Vuteq Canada Inc

MOLD FLOW SPECIALIST – TOOLING - VTCA

Vuteq Technical Center Americas is a Sales and Engineering service provider representing Vuteq and Diversity Vuteq manufacturing groups throughout North America. The Vuteq group of companies is actively engaged in automotive parts manufacturing and design and currently supplies Interior and Exterior components to General Motors, Toyota Motor Manufacturing and Honda Motor Manufacturing. Located in Woodstock, Ontario, we are proud to supply quality products and services to our customers for the past 35 years. We are a diverse team of skilled professionals, and pride ourselves in maintaining a culture that is inclusive, supportive and provides opportunities for growth.
We are currently looking for a Design Engineer to join our team!
Job Description
The Mold Flow Specialist is responsible for performing mold flow simulations and analysis using mold flow simulation software. Defining fill, pack and warp and translating into processing parameters for tooling and processing team members. This individual will provide process support for new tool tryouts and establish correlations with Moldflow simulations.

POSITION DESCRIPTION

• Working with Tooling Engineers, lead Moldflow simulation activity for new part development
• Analyze Moldflow results and recommend part design, gating and process changes to improve part quality and process window
• Perform new tool qualification using a scientific molding approach.
• Compare results of molding trials to simulations and revise analysis assumptions to correlate results
• Develops and documents process and set-up procedures
• Provide support to plant requests for trouble shooting Part defects or processing issues.
• Completes MoldFlow related customer documentation when required.
• Support implementation of Scientific/ Decoupled Molding processes.
• Project management including DOE’s and process capability studies.
• Performs job in a safe manner and strives to meet or exceed company safety goals

EDUCATION

• Successful completion of a minimum 2-4 year post-secondary program; design, mechanical, and manufacturing engineering are considered relevant
• Related Mold Flow Courses IE; MoldFlow 101, Moldflow Insight to Fundamentals, Advance Flow + Cool and Warp
• Successful completion of a mold design/mold maker apprenticeship an asset

EXPERIENCE

• 3-5 years of experience in injection mold design/mold tooling
• MoldFlow Software; Autodesk, Moldex3D
• Injection processing: Setting up and Running Injection Moulds
• Cad software: Cimatron, NX
• Automotive experience is considered to be an asset

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Ability to show versatility and resourcefulness when problem solving
• Attention to detail and accuracy when preparing and reviewing mold designs
• Ability to adapt to changing demands from customers as well as fellow team members
• Strong interpersonal skills; having to communicate with several people at once
• Ability to organize priorities based on deadlines and importance of tasks
• Manage time efficiently while working on several different tasks at once
• Sense of creativity when designing a mold, and when having to change and adapt to different specifications

Please refer the Job description for details