Tooling Engineer
Atalys, LLC
Summary
The Tool Engineer is responsible for cost, quality, and delivery of managing/engineering the design, build and development of tooling related to the injection molding process. This position will interact with customers, manufacturing plants, internal shop, and suppliers.
Job description
Position Summary
The Tool Engineer is responsible for cost, quality, and delivery of managing/engineering the design, build and development of tooling related to the injection molding process. This position will interact with customers, manufacturing plants, internal shop, and suppliers.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Part of a cross functional product development team with responsibility of being technical lead for tooling.
- Decide on tool design concept, with tool designers, and lead Design Review meetings with cross-functional teams to engineer a tool to meet customer and plant requirements.
- Debug and groom tools to meet quality and manufacturing standards
- Track and monitor the entire tool performance for cost, quality, and delivery against quoted assumptions.
- Provide general technical assistance to the Tool Room personnel as required.
- Liaison between internal departments including, but not limited to, Quality, Molding, Project Engineering, Tool Room, Shipping, and Scheduling.
- Responsible for continuous improvement tool related issues on respective program families
- Coordinates both corrective action and continuous improvement activities
- Supports day to day activities as needed on the production floor
- Must be able to use CAD to review tool designs. SolidWorks is preferable.
- Able to travel up to 25% domestic with some international travel each year
Regular attendance during scheduled work hours is an essential function of this position.
Strong teamwork, collaboration and interpersonal communication skills are required.
Qualifications: Required Competencies, Skills and Experience
- Minimum of five (5) years’ engineering experience in injection molding plastics industry
- Limited assembly automation experience
- Use of standard business software such as Microsoft 365
- Excellent organization, time management and communication skills
- Ability to accommodate a flexible schedule
- Must be able to demonstrate expertise in a variety of the field’s concepts, practices and procedures
- Excellent troubleshooting, decision making skills, problem solving skills and analytical skills.
- Technologically proficient
- Strong, professional communication skills essential, both oral and written
Education and Job Experience Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree (Engineering Bachelor’s Degree preferred) or equivalent work experience.
- Mold Building experience preferred.
Requirements
- Minimum of five (5) years’ engineering experience in injection molding plastics industry
- Limited assembly automation experience
- Use of standard business software such as Microsoft 365
- Excellent organization, time management and communication skills
- Ability to accommodate a flexible schedule
- Must be able to demonstrate expertise in a variety of the field’s concepts, practices and procedures
- Excellent troubleshooting, decision making skills, problem solving skills and analytical skills.
- Technologically proficient
- Strong, professional communication skills essential, both oral and written
- Bachelor’s Degree (Engineering Bachelor’s Degree preferred) or equivalent work experience.
- Mold Building experience preferred.
Benefits
- Generous PTO
- 11 Paid Holidays
- 401(k) Matching
- Bonuses
- Shift Differentials
- Paid Jury Duty
- Bereavement Leave
- Medical, Dental & Vision
- Short-Term Disability
- Long-Term Disability
- Group Term Life Insurance
- Supplemental Life Insurance
- Critical Illness Coverage
- Accident Coverage
- Hospital Indemnity
- Employee Assistance Program
- Perfect Attendance Awards
- Service Awards Program
- Referral Bonus
Company overview
Atalys, LLC is a leading vertically integrated medical device contract manufacturing platform specializing in precision manufacturing for the MedTech industry. Headquartered in Rochester, New York, the company operates multiple facilities across the United States and the Dominican Republic, employing 501-1,000 professionals. Atalys serves as the preferred manufacturing partner for world-renowned medical device brands, delivering mission-critical, life-saving components through expertise in extreme precision tooling, advanced plastics processing, and automated device assembly. The company focuses on producing highly engineered components for robotic-assisted surgical systems, minimally invasive surgical instruments, drug delivery devices, and surgical access systems. With ISO 13485:2016 and ISO 9001:2015 certifications, Atalys maintains FDA-registered facilities and specializes in complex geometries with micron-level tolerances. Their comprehensive end-to-end services enable medical device companies to bring breakthrough technologies to market with enhanced speed, reliability, and precision, ultimately improving patient outcomes in critical surgical applications.