R&D Can Tooling Design Engineering Leader, Belvac Production Machinery, Inc., Lynchburg, VA:



· Supervise and coordinate the activities of the tooling engineers that design and develop aluminum containers and their corresponding metal-forming tooling (i.e. Cupper, Bodymaker, Necker, Internal Base Reformer , Flanger, Bottle Can Machine System - BCMS);

· Provide guidance to direct reports regarding creation of tooling drawings and machine setups layouts for metal-forming processes;

· Review modeling and virtual simulation methods that solve technical problems related to metal containers performance;

· Support direct reports with statistical analysis techniques to trial data, develop key observations and conclusions and elaboration-submission of corresponding technical reports;

· Supervise document changes to engineering records and specification documents in accordance with ISO 9001-2015 requirements;

· Provide Sales department quotations for Container Engineering Services (i.e. Internal Base Reforming tests) and assist the Technical Service department with installation/commissioning of new machinery and tooling setup for metal-forming processes at customer plants.



Full time employment, Monday – Friday, 40 hours per week.


MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:



Master’s degree of Science in Mechanical Engineering or a related field and 3 years of experience in– designing can-making tooling and containers for the beverage industry.



Of the above experience, must have:



· 3 years of experience with design of mechanical components such as CAD Software.

· 3 years of experience with Finite-Element-Analysis (FEA) simulation – Abaqus.

· 3 years experience in statistical analysis and technical reporting which includes research and development areas where data is captured from products/prototypes and manufacturing processes.

· 3 years of experience in metal forming, can-making tooling and designing of aluminum metal containers.

· 2 years of experience with computational fluid dynamics modeling.

Domestic and International travelling required up to 20%.



TO APPLY: Email your resume to kristiet@belvac.com with subject line, R&D Can Tooling Design Engineering Leader