Product Industrialization Engineer Molding

In this role, you have the opportunity to

Contribute to improve people’s Health & Well-being through meaningful innovation, by connecting Innovation and Industrialization in the technical area.

Together with a project team, the molding engineer specifies and implements molding systems for mass manufacturing and as technical specialist, the molding engineer is responsible for the process and takes care that molding systems are performing against product and production requirements.

You are responsible for:

• Industrializing new plastic parts in the factory.
• Actively studying trends and new technologies in field of molding (including sustainability).
• Specify and outsource molding process, tools and equipment.
• Review the activities of mold making suppliers.
• Implement molding processes in the factory and provide aftercare.
• Define financial impact and monitoring financials of molding processes,
• Apply and improve standard molding procedures and supplier base management tools and methods.
• Use of DFSS improvement tools and lean manufacturing principles.
• Competence management: Improve and document knowledge in the field of Molding

With a growing presence in cardiology, oncology, and women's health, Philips operates in the areas of Imaging Systems, Patient Care & Clinical Informatics, Home Healthcare and Customer Services. Philips combines its clinical expertise and human insights to create innovative solutions across the continuum of care, in partnership with clinicians and our customers, to provide better value and expand access to care for millions. Our teams are working hard every day to improve patient outcomes all the way from disease prevention and screening to diagnosis, treatment, therapy monitoring, and disease management. Irrespective of whether the care cycle takes the patient from doctor's office to hospital or hospital to home, or simply from one medical department to another, Philips Healthcare's unique medical solutions are designed to optimize the quality and flow of patient information and clinical decision making.

• Attractive salary
• Travel expenses
• Pension
• Holiday allowance

The SME (Site Manufacturing Engineering) Molding team in Drachten.

The molding team develops & realizes world-class industrialization solutions with passion for Shavers, Toothbrushes and other Philips products.

SME plans and implements integral architecture for product, process and supply chain to improve cost agility, time to market, volume mix flexibility & sustainability.

SME Molding develops partnerships (Turnkey suppliers) to speed up innovation and use their knowledge & state of the art technologies resulting in fast & smooth product launches.

To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills and experience

Technical:

• Knowledge of fundamentals plastic part making
• Able to execute DFM analyses, make DFM reports and analyze DFM reports
• Basic knowledge of resins.
• Knowledge about measuring, able to read and understand drawings
• Understanding of mold constructions,
• Understanding of injection molding process, able to execute molding trials, trouble shooting and process investigations.
• Able to operate molding machines
• Able to make functional molding specifications
• Able to estimate mold prices and cycle times of injection molding process
• Able to manage ordering, realization and release of new molds
• Minimal Six Sigma or DMAIC trained (Green Belt), preferably certified
• Generic:
• Good communication skills in Dutch and English
• Ability to influence stakeholders and team up with others
• Decisive, result driven and creative team player
• Proactive approach, can-do mentality and hands on way of working.
• Can work autonomously and in teams
• Able to think in scenarios

Education and experience:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in mechanical engineering
• Minimal 2 years relevant working experience in plastic part making, preferably in a mass production environment for consumer products.