First Tuning Engineer

Competences requirements

- Knowledge / Qualification

- Previous Experience (If relevant)

- Key technical competencies

- Key behavioural competencies (on top of PO Group competencies)

- Other requirements

Bachelor Degree or equivalent professional experiences

Good knowledge of plastic rules (Shrinkage analysis, Demoulding, injection…),

Injection tooling Development engineer, Tool and Injection Engineer, Plastic Parts design, Product Engineer

Basic mechanicals rules, able to read 2D drawings – Cross sections and manipulate 3D models. Able to manage Product, Prototype & mock’up to reach technical solutions applicable within product and process environment requirement understanding. Technical proposals, solutions will guarantee the right product performance convergence according to customer specifications. (Geometry , product performance , tool and injection process requirements)

Communication, rigor, autonomy, able to analyse product and functions, analytical mindset

Mobility (main workload at toolmaker location ), Fluent in English

Missions

- Missions

- KPI and/or main deliverables

- Support ITE mission during trials @ toolmaker plant (product vision)

- Ensures product design and architecture to meet the customer quality requirements, as well as all costs and timing expectations

- Ensures PO Design Standard are implemented (PODS & Technical Solutions)

- Initiate first tuning from T1 to tool transfer, follow-up with ITE & EPM

- CTQ (Critical to Quality) convergence

- Quality surface analysis

- First tuning action plan

- Traceability product / process

Activities

- Works according to HSE requirements

- Gets from EPM & design leader all technical elements & parts necessary for first tuning actions (CAD data, gap and flushness requirements, surrounding parts, interfaces…)

- Keeps in touch with EPM and extended team, providing project follow up & raising issues when needed

- Attends trials with ITE in toolmaker plant

- Can work on several projects at the same time

- Checks and validates the quality / conformity of parts + assemblies

- Mock’up parts in toolmaker plant or any local area

- Insures traceability of parts + mock’ups

- Insures availability of first tuning means with his colleagues

- Writes first tuning reports with recommendations & conclusions, uploads data in PLM tools (KEOPS, …)

- Runs part of validation plan which can be done with local tools and subsystems (assembly forces, …)

- Looks for solutions and suggests technical proposals to EPM for project decision, respecting existing documents in PO network (design standards/PODS, lessons learnt, benchmark reports, first tuning documents, …)

- Liaises with the toolmaker together with the Injection & Tooling Engineer to optimize product design (according to tool and injection process feasibility).

- Executes the actions decided during project meetings and updates regularly the action plan

- Follow-up of budget and schedule for every project

- Consider perimeter changes after written validation from the EPM

- Participates to the study and means validation in case of specific tools needed

- Uses checking fixture, analyse measurements and propose improvements according to product first tuning

- Organizes follow-up & maintenance of first tuning tools, manages conformity of them

- Can manage the manufacturing of samples for the customer and the process validation

- Can participate to OEM events for product convergence

- Capitalizes and formalizes the lessons learnt of the product