Project Engineer - Plastic Injection Molding
Job Description
Pay Rate: $100,000-135,000 + bonus structure
Hire Type: Direct Hire
- Lead new program development from initial quotation through production.
- Serve as a primary engineering contact for customers and tooling suppliers.
- Analyze customer prints and tooling quotation requests and prepare tooling quotations.
- Procure tooling and coordinate the design and build process.
- Ensure new tooling is designed and built to support robust, reliable manufacturing processes.
- Conduct design reviews and preliminary tool reviews with cross-functional teams.
- Place tooling purchase orders and monitor supplier progress, quality, timing, and compliance with agreed designs.
- Conduct pre-sampling and post-sampling meetings with project teams.
- Partner with Sales on technical design projects, including prototyping and design recommendations.
- Support metal-to-plastic conversion projects and identify opportunities created through product design changes.
- Develop piece-part designs and identify qualified sources for design, tooling, and prototyping activities.
- Perform mold simulation analysis using Moldex3D.
- Must have a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Plastics Technology, or a related field or equivalent professional experience.
- Must have at least 3–5 years of plastic injection molding experience.
- Strong computer skills, including CAD—preferably SolidWorks but open to other design software
- Broad understanding of plastic materials, including PP, ABS, Acetal, and Nylon.
- Ability to manage projects, coordinate with multiple stakeholders, and follow through on deadlines.
- Willingness and ability to travel a couple of times a year domestically and internationally when required (Italy, Mexico, China).
Meet Your Recruiter
Senior Technical Recruiter
Galen is a Senior Technical Recruiter at Sterling Engineering with nearly 14 years of recruiting and talent acquisition experience, spanning agency leadership, high-volume technical recruiting, and executive-level client partnership. Since joining Sterling in February 2026, he has brought a strategic, relationship-driven approach to supporting candidates and clients across manufacturing, industrial engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and more.
Galen is dedicated to solving complex hiring challenges and building trusted, long-term partnerships with candidates, hiring managers, and executives. He takes the time to understand each person’s experience, goals, and career ambitions so he can help connect them with opportunities that align with both their skills and long-term direction.
For Galen, recruiting is about being an advocate and facilitator during important moments of transition and opportunity. He genuinely enjoys learning what motivates people and helping them take meaningful next steps in their careers while supporting companies in building strong, high-performing teams.