Automotive Plastics Injection Molding

The role

This Resident Engineer will represent the company at an automotive OEM customer. The role focuses on sales, account management, and business development using technical knowledge of plastic injection molding.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain relationships with OEM engineering, purchasing, and program management.
• Identify new business opportunities, upcoming programs, RFQs, and potential projects.
• Support sales activities, new business acquisition, quotation preparation, and commercial negotiations.
• Recommend suitable plastic injection molding solutions based on customer requirements.
• Act as the primary customer interface for internal sales, engineering, tooling, program, and manufacturing teams.
• Identify opportunities for cost reduction, design optimization, and value engineering.
• Follow up on open quotations, customer requirements, and engineering changes.
• Support product development, tooling reviews, mold trials, and new program launches.
• Coordinate resolution of customer concerns related to design, tooling, molding, quality, and delivery.
• Monitor customer satisfaction and represent the company at the OEM site.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in automotive sales engineering, technical sales, business development, account management, or customer-facing engineering roles.
• Good understanding of plastic injection molding processes, tooling, mold design, plastic materials, and automotive plastic components.
• Ability to understand technical drawings, product specifications, manufacturing requirements, and customer engineering expectations.
• Experience supporting RFQs, quotations, pricing, cost estimation, and new business development.
• Strong customer relationship management and commercial communication skills.
• Ability to work independently at the customer location while coordinating with internal cross-functional teams.

Nice to have

• Experience working with automotive OEMs, Tier 1, or Tier 2 suppliers
• Combination of automotive technical knowledge and a sales-oriented mindset
• Candidate who can comfortably interact with OEM purchasing and engineering teams
• Experience selling or supporting plastic injection-molded components to automotive OEMs
• Strong negotiation, presentation, communication, and relationship-building skills
• Self-driven, proactive, and commercially focused

Benefits

• Mentorship
• Career growth opportunities
• Comprehensive benefits

Before you apply

• All candidates selected for employment will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening as a condition of hire.

About the company

ALTEN Technology USA is an engineering company with 3,000+ experts across North America. They partner with companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, and more.