Senior Molding Engineer- Strategic Sourcing

About CooperSurgical

CooperSurgical is a leading fertility and women’s healthcare company dedicated to putting time on the side of women, babies, and families at the healthcare moments that matter most in life. As a division of CooperCompanies, we're driven by a unified purpose to enable patients to experience life's beautiful moments. Guided by our shared values – dedicated, innovative, friendly, partners, and do the right thing – our offerings support patients throughout their lifetimes, from contraception to fertility and birth solutions, to women’s and family care, and beyond. We currently offer over 600 clinically relevant medical devices to healthcare providers, including testing and treatment options, as well as an innovative suite of assisted reproductive technology and genomic testing solutions. Learn more at www.coopersurgical.com. 

Work location: Trumbull, CT (on-site)

Scope: 

The Senior Molding Engineer, Strategic Sourcing serves as a plastic molding/tooling technical resource on the Strategic Sourcing team, supporting engineering activities related to CooperSurgical’s global supply chain. This position interacts with all Cooper Surgical locations and departments as well as external suppliers worldwide.  

Job Summary:

The Senior Molding Engineer, Strategic Sourcing is a technical resource for strategic or sustaining engineering projects. This role is responsible for providing technical leadership for supplied product changes, improvements, transfers, and other strategic sourcing initiatives.  This role is focused primarily on plastics related tooling, materials, components, and assemblies, but will also work with other commodity types. The Senior Molding Engineer, Strategic Sourcing will partner with Global Category Managers to find innovative collaborative ways to reduce risk, achieve cost savings, and improve the supply chain.  This role provides technical expertise in problem solving, design for manufacture, plastic molding processes & tool design, and will lead technical efforts.  This role will leverage technical expertise for projects of moderate to high complexity.

• Proactively identifies risk in the polymer/plastics supply chain and provides solutions to eliminate or significantly reduce risk while ensuring there are no gaps in supply for production.

• Achieves program objectives regarding transfer and new startup of tooling/equipment at supplier locations

• Leads mold/tooling design activities in coordination with suppliers, oversees supplier Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT), and ensures supplier validation of manufacturing cells is completed in accordance with engineering best practices and procedures. 

• Completes tooling & equipment repairs and replacements for Cooper Surgical assets located at suppliers worldwide.

• Provides input to the CSI supplier asset (CSI owned tooling/equipment) replacement plan

• Assists with the selection of highly qualified medical device material/component/assembly suppliers

• Identify cost reduction opportunities in partnership with Category Managers, internal stakeholders and suppliers to meet year over year cost targets. 

• Identify insourcing and outsourcing opportunities in partnership with Category Managers and Operations manufacturing strategy; supports technical component in the make/buy analysis.

• Provides recommendations for Design for Manufacture and Assembly for supplied components and assemblies.

• Assists suppliers with manufacturing equipment and tooling capacity planning in alignment with long term plan and short-term changes in demand.

• Identifies and maintains a world-class supply base for high quality SPI class 101, 102, & 103 injection mold tools.

• Leads cross-functional teams to investigate and resolve complex supplier issues, engineering changes, etc.

• Researches and understands raw materials used in manufacturing and makes recommendations for alternates. 

Travel: Up to 30% domestically and internationally