What ThermalPastic Design (TDI) Offers:
- Competitive financial compensation (Starting Salary Range: $130K/DOQ) paid bi-weekly direct deposit
- Employer paid Life & AD&D
- Employer paid short-term disability
- Insurance coverage offerings (medical, dental, vision and voluntary Life & AD&D and voluntary long-term disability)
- Health Savings Account option with Health Insurance
- Flexible Spending Account – Dependent Care
- Paid Time Off (PTO) – Starts on Day 1!
- Nine (9) Paid Holidays
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and other value-added benefits
- Educational Assistance Program
**Opportunity for Departmental Performance Based Bonus**
Summary:
We are seeking a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead and support the engineering functions for our rapidly expanding plastic injection molding operations. This role combines leadership responsibilities with direct technical involvement in tooling, equipment, and continuous improvement initiatives. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in solution development, tooling, injection molding manufacturing and team leadership.
Job Responsibilities:
This list of duties and responsibilities is not all inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties and responsibilities as management may deem necessary at any time.
- Train, develop skills and monitor performance of engineering staff
- Benchmark, propose and maintain the company as a leader in custom manufacturing and contract services, injection molding and engineering services
- Propose the company’s forward progress to upper management as required
- Collaborate cross-functionally with production, quality, and supply chain teams to meet operational goals.
- Monitor engineering activity to verify conformance to customer requirement and implementation of standards and policies.
- Initiate engineering standard procedures to ensure quality of services, that product and tooling meets the customer’s expectation and respond to request for quotation
- Participate in development of tooling standards direction design review and recommend solutions for quality tools and programs for customer satisfaction
- Initiate procedures to ensure sound project/product management, including procedures for financial program tracking, project management and on-time deliveries
- Develop stronger skills and knowledge for the engineering staff in an effort for them to understand their respective jobs and the ability to accomplish the above duties and tasks related to their position
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Bachelor’s degree in Plastics Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- 10+ years of experience in plastic injection molding, with at least 2 years in a leadership or supervisory role.
- 5+ years of experience in tooling, processing, and CAD within the custom molding industry.
- Strong knowledge of custom injection molding standards, practices, and manufacturing systems.
- Experience with contract assembly services, BOM development, ERP software, and quality systems.
- Familiarity with statistics, FMEA, cost accounting standards, and industrial engineering principles.
- Excellent problem-solving, communication, and organizational skills.
- Scientific molding training.
- Experience with automation and robotics in molding environments.
Equal Opportunity Employer For further information, please review the Know Your Rights notice from the Department of Labor. If you require assistance or reasonable accommodation to apply for one of our open positions, please contact Human Resources at 715-483-4005. TDI participates in E-Verify. Successful pre-employment drug screen.
Pay: From $130,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k) 4% Match
- AD&D insurance
- Dental insurance
- Disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid jury duty
- Paid time off
- Professional development assistance
- Referral program
- Vision insurance
Experience:
- Plastics injection molding: 10 years (Preferred)
- Supervising: 3 years (Preferred)
- Tooling: 5 years (Preferred)
Work Location: In person
