Principal Vision and Tooling Engineer

4 days ago


Durham, North Carolina, United States bioMerieux Inc. Full time
Job Summary

The Principal Tooling/Vision Engineer is a key role that oversees the planning, direction, and coordination of manufacturing equipment and processes to produce high-quality injection/blow molded plastic products.

Key Responsibilities
  • Coordinate molding efforts on new program launches, setting up and/or revising manufacturing processes, and assisting manufacturing operations in problem-solving and continuous process improvements.
  • Monitor the effectiveness of processes, quantify results, document, and present findings to management, and prepare reports.
  • Mentor and provide training to other injection/blow molding personnel.
  • Function as a Plastics/Vision Subject Matter Expert (SME) to assist with the development, production, and maintenance of plastic parts.
  • Troubleshoot problems with existing parts by determining root cause and resolving issues from non-conforming materials.
  • Assist with Change Requests, First Article Inspections, Validation/Verification of new parts, and changes following quality control policies and processes.
  • Travel as needed to work with vendors.
  • Develop and implement machine vision systems to measure various plastic part parameters.
  • Specify machine vision components, acquire quotes, and facilitate purchase justifications.
  • Design machine vision mounts, supervise fabrication, and installation of the machine vision mounts.
  • Systems shall include image acquisition and processing, and provide pattern recognition.
  • Maintain various machine vision software applications.
  • Assist suppliers with drafting quality protocols and overseeing their execution, including use of reject artifacts to challenge and verify the machine vision system's reject detection and rejection mechanisms.
  • Develop and deploy a relevant operator interface to facilitate table of inspection results, Pass/Fail counters for each rejectable attribute, and manual inspection results counter reset function by maintenance technicians.
  • Analyze and interpret data collected from vision systems specific to the tooling applications, developing a time-stamped record for each inspection variable and attribute data.
  • Ability to train and support others in the use of the vision systems, including remote login capability to support machine vision systems remotely.
  • Create a means to consistently reject bad parts and approve good parts, minimizing false rejects.
  • Monitor and report issues with injection/blow molds and make recommendations for refurbishment based on production factors such as cycles, process capability, and tooling history.
  • Develop new processes, assess, and document new and existing processes, implementing and evaluating changes to existing processes designed to improve product quality, productivity, and overall equipment efficiency.
  • Implement technical solutions, including statistical methodology, to meet customer cost, quality, and delivery expectations.
  • Use Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, and other techniques to analyze process data to determine capabilities and improvement.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to process technicians, operators, and other molding personnel.
Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Material Science with 10 years of experience in vision, or an Associate's degree with 15 years of experience in vision system, or in lieu of a degree, high school diploma/GED with 20 years of experience in vision system.
  • Designing, building, maintaining, troubleshooting machine vision systems.
  • Familiar with a wide range of molding processes, including injection molding, blow molding, structural foam, compression molding, vacuum forming, etc.
  • Experience with tooling systems preferred but not required.
  • Working in a regulated industry (design control), preferably FDA project management.
  • Able to travel in the 75% range, with most travel drivable from the Raleigh/Durham area.
  • Knowledge of statistical methods is a plus.
  • Able to prioritize projects and multitask between multiple projects in parallel.


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