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Position Description: LPM Engineer

Job Summary

The Low-Pressure Molding (LPM) Engineer is responsible for providing technical support on new and existing HDR molding projects across Asia production facilities  

Responsibilities

• Review, diagnose and redesign as needed any existing production molds
• Review Asia designs and mentor mold designers as needed to promote global mold designs and standards
• Review Asia molding procedures and processes with the intent to guide and mentor HDR OPS to drive consistency and standards globally
• As needed, make design modifications to existing molds (such as line extensions) for Samtec LPM
• As needed, design new molds for Samtec LPM
• Help author, critique and train on LPM tooling design and methods standards as needed
• Work directly with purchasing, quality, product engineering, manufacturing engineering, test engineering, process engineering, and other necessary groups as a cross functional team to develop products/solutions
• Adhere to all corporate engineering standards including but not limited to documentation and file management     
• Autonomously plans and schedules own daily tasks, develops solutions to problems utilizing education, experience, and judgment

Requirement Skills and Experience

• Minimum of 5-years related experience designing injection molds
• Working knowledge of steel machining techniques
• Working knowledge of scientific injection molding principles

Desired Skills and Experience

• Design experience with tight tolerance molds, including but not limited to LPM, reel to reel, insert molding
• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills
• Must be a self-starter with strong leadership
• Excellent communication skills and demonstrated problem solving ability
• Excellent interpersonal skills in relating to both internal and external customers
• Proficient is MS Office applications (PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Outlook)
• Willing to travel throughout Asia for up to 4 weeks per year
• Willing to travel globally between Samtec facilities, initially for training and long term for supporting Operations

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