Tooling Engineer

Company Description

Badger Foundry Company is a mining & metals company located at 1058 East Mark Street, Winona, Minnesota. The company specializes in high-quality foundry work and has a long-standing reputation for excellence within the industry. Prospective employees will be joining a company dedicated to advanced manufacturing techniques and continuous improvement.

This is a full-time on-site role for a Tooling Engineer located in Winona, MN. Tooling Engineer is required to conduct APQP with customer, design tooling and oversee the build of tooling. Identify processes to produce a casting to customers' needs/specification. Utilize flow and solidification software to assist in planning for gating and rigging.

- 5 years of foundry experience.

- Experience in engineering casting process for gray and ductile iron castings.

- Able to interpret customer supplied 2D drawing and 3D CAD casting models to determine foundry capability, process methods and tooling development.

- Capable of designing patterns, coreboxes, fixtures, coreprinting, partings, and work with pattern suppliers to develop and build tooling.

- Ability to design gating and riser systems to produce defect free castings.

- Experience in Solidification modeling.

- Ability to create 3D models of basic gating shapes for solidification and flow modeling.

- Possess excellent problem solving skills.

- Ability to perform root cause analysis and resolve process quality defects.

- Understanding of green sand and no-bake molding process.

- Ability to analyze and improve processes for yield, efficiencies and cost reductions.

- Highly organized. Able to manage multiple projects to satisfy timelines.

- Excellent communication skills. Able to represent Badger Foundry and communicate with customers.

- Maintain engineering records, job tracker, lead daily production meetings.

- Possess excellent computer skills including Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, Powerpoint.