Manufacturing Engineering

General Motors

Manufacturing Engineer focusing on Design for Manufacturing in automotive engineering projects. Collaborating with suppliers and leading projects for thermoplastic parts and molds.

Posted 7/23/2026full-timeWarren • Missouri • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in Design for Manufacturing, focusing on injection molds, thermoplastic parts, and cost optimization. Proficient in collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance part designs and manufacturing processes while ensuring high quality and efficiency.

Highest-signal resume keywords

Injection Mold DesignUnigraphics NXInjection Mold Filling AnalysisThermoplastic Parts DevelopmentClass A Surface Appearance Requirements

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Hard Skills

Injection MoldsPart DesignToolingProcess VariablesCost ControlValue OptimizationManufacturing ProcessesInjection Modeling MachinesHigh Quality StrategiesCycle Time Reduction

Soft Skills

CollaborationLeadership

Tools & Technologies

Autodesk-Moldflow

Industry Keywords

Plastics EngineeringIndustrial EngineeringMechanical EngineeringAutomotive IndustryProduction Part Approval Process

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Responsible for Design for Manufacturing of major engineering projects involving part designs, injection molds, resin material, cost control and value optimization, injection modeling equipment, supplier management, and plant and manufacturing processes
Work collaboratively with a diverse group of engineers, cross-functional engineers, or other engineering support personnel to drive quality into part designs and manufacturing processes
Lead suppliers in the development of thermoplastic parts and molds that produce optimal assemblies in the support of the Production Part Approval Process
Lead suppliers in the development of optimized molding process conditions that yield high quality parts at reduced cycle times during mold variations.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree in Plastics, Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field of study
Three (3) years of experience as a Manufacturing Engineer, Senior Process Engineer, Junior Process Engineer or related occupation
Three (3) years of experience with injection molds including components and functions; and part design, tooling and process variables including cost and high quality strategies
Two (2) years of experience with Unigraphics NX
Injection mold filling analysis including Autodesk-Moldflow
Injection modeling machines
One (1) year of experience with Class A surface appearance requirements in the automotive industry associated with as-molded, painted, chromed, and metalized parts.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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