Mold CAE Application Specialist

4 days ago


Rochester Hills, Michigan, United States Molex Full time

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Mold CAE Application Engineer to join our team at Molex. As a key member of our product development team, you will be responsible for delivering expert guidance on plastic molding behaviors to enhance product manufacturability, mold performance, and molding production efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with product design engineers to provide DFM insights and proactively address manufacturability issues and optimize product manufacturability prior to OK-to-Tool.
  • Partner with mold tooling engineers to craft and authenticate tooling strategies, ensuring optimal runner/gate/cooling designs, and refining mold tooling plans.
  • Optimize molding process parameters in conjunction with process engineers.
  • Leverage molding simulation tools to boost production operational efficiency, targeting cycle time reduction, material usage minimization, defect reduction, and PM frequency decrease.
  • Collect and evaluate data on molding behavior and part performance for predicted versus actual comparison studies.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Polymer Engineering; Master's degree preferred.
  • Proven background in creating molding simulation models, specifically for connector products, utilizing software such as Moldflow, Moldex3D, HyperMesh, and CAD systems like NX.
  • Proficiency in conducting Flow, Pack, Cool, and Warp analyses with simulation software like Moldex3D or Moldflow.
  • Expertise in interpreting simulation results, diagnosing potential issues in molding and product performance, and suggesting solutions and risk mitigation for product design, tooling, and processing.

What We Offer

Molex offers a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance.



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