Tooling Engineer

Rain Bird Corporation, based in Azusa, California is the world's leading manufacturer and provider of irrigation products and services. Since 1933, Rain Bird has offered broadest range of irrigation products for farms, golf courses, sports arenas, commercial developments and homes in more than 130 countries around the globe.

* Responsible for specification and successful procurement of injection mold tooling required for new product development parts and replacement molds * Identify, justify and implement quality improvement projects to improve the performance and consistency of injection molded components * Responsible for coordination of maintenance and repair of injection mold tooling for several high-volume product lines * Identify, justify, and implement cost reduction projects to reduce cost of injection molded components * Work closely with mold makers and designers to insure molds will meet Rain Bird mold standards to produce high quality parts * Develop new tooling constructions technologies that take our company to the next level of performance by reducing cost and increasing quality * Collaborate with Design Engineers, Process Engineers, and Quality Engineers to develop and improve product designs for robust injection molded components

**Minimum Qualifications:** * 10+ years of experience designing, specifying, sourcing, building, qualifying, and/or coordinating the acquisition of new molds for plastic injection parts * Proven track record of developing complex mold tooling for production of high quality, low cost, high volume components * Experience with unwinding, side-action, hot-runner, high-cavitation, complex molds * Experience collaborating with supply management, product design, industrial design, and manufacturing groups on material selection, design feasibility and aesthetics of new plastic part & tooling designs * Proficient with the use of Design for Manufacturing, SPC, DOE and Six Sigma techniques * Excellent verbal and written communication skills * Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office applications (Work, Excel, Outlook, Project) * Ability to perform financial analysis and cost justifications * Well organized, enthusiastic, high energy, strong work ethic * Service oriented, I’ll-figure-it-out, action-oriented attitude * BS Degree in an Engineering discipline * Travel up to 25% of work schedule **Desired Qualifications:** * Broad knowledge of plastic resins * Proficient in the use of CAD (SolidWorks) and mold flow analysis * Experience in managing complex development programs with overseas tooling vendors (Asia) * 3+ years of experience designing molds * Supervisory experience * Willing to travel to the US, Mexico, China and other parts of the world to support Rain Bird molds * Bilingual – English, Spanish, and /or Chinese