Principal Engineer- Design for Manufacturing

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The Principal DFM Engineer is responsible for driving design-for-manufacturability (DFM), process feasibility, and cost optimization for silicone and elastomer-based products across the organization.

This role serves as a subject matter expert and strategic leader, owning the quoting process from a technical standpoint while establishing the manufacturing strategy from prototype through full-scale production.

Responsibilities include developing detailed cost models, defining tooling approaches, estimating validation requirements, and translating customer designs into robust, scalable manufacturing solutions.

The Principal DFM Engineer plays a critical role in guiding cross-functional decision-making and influencing customer outcomes, directly impacting business growth, margin performance, and long-term capability development. While accountable for quotation and cost modeling, this position is primarily differentiated by its deep technical influence, shaping product design, tooling, and process strategies across the Elastomers Operation Unit.

Additionally, this role advances best practices in LSR, HCR, and elastomer molding and extrusion technologies, particularly within regulated environments including Class II and Class III medical devices, while mentoring engineers and elevating organizational DFM capability.

- Lead comprehensive DFM evaluations for elastomer components and assemblies, providing actionable recommendations to optimize:

- Influence customer designs upstream through direct technical engagement and design reviews

- Identify critical-to-quality features, tolerance risks, and process limitations

- Serve as the technical owner of RFQs, developing detailed, transparent cost models for prototype through full production

- Tooling concepts and lifecycle strategies (prototype vs production tooling)

- Labor, material utilization, scrap, and secondary operations

- Multi-scenario pricing strategies (volume tiers, automation levels, tooling options)

- NRE, validation (IQ/OQ/PQ), and lifecycle cost considerations

- Partner with Sales and Business Development in customer-facing technical and commercial discussions

- Ensure alignment between technical assumptions, cost structure, and business objectives

- Cold runner systems, gating, venting, and parting line strategies

- Collaborate with Process Engineering, Tooling, Quality, and Operations to:

- Drive early-stage decisions that impact long-term operational efficiency, cost, and capacity

- Lead technical reviews during RFQ, contract review, and NPI phases

- Ensure manufacturability, cost, and quality assumptions are clearly documented and transferred into execution

- Drive should-cost modeling and cost-out initiatives though improved mold designs, optimized cycle times, or new automation opportunities

- Analyze quote-to-actual performance and refine estimating accuracy

- Mentor and develop engineers in DFM, elastomer processing, and cost engineering

- Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) for silicone and rubber processing technologies

- Support capability development and capital investment planning

- Contribute to long-term technology roadmaps and strategic growth initiatives

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Manufacturing, Materials, Polymer, or similar)

- 10+ years of experience in elastomer manufacturing, DFM or process engineering

- Tooling design principles (cavitation, gating, venting, materials)

- Interpreting engineering drawings, GD&T, and 3D CAD models

- Regulatory and customer specifications (medical preferred)

- Experience working in cross-functional and customer-facing roles

- Experience in medical device manufacturing (Class II / Class III)

- Multi-material molding (overmolding, bonding, insert molding)

- Excellent communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

- High level of ownership, accountability, decision-making authority

The pay range for this role is $100-$150k, excluding incentive opportunities. The pay range takes into account a wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, skills; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and geographic location. Hired applicant will be eligible to receive (discretionary/nondiscretionary) annual bonuses and incentive compensation.

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