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About the Role
Responsible for leading and managing all activities required during the design, build, and qualification of production and prototype plastic injection molds to meet customer requirements.
Responsibilities
- Work with customers to understand needs and create specifications, models, and drawings.
- Obtain vendor quotes, issue POs, and review mold vendor design proposals.
- Review customer drawings and specifications to determine requirements and feasibility.
- Maintain project budgets and timing schedules.
- Complete designs, tolerance stack-ups, layouts, drawings, calculations, and supporting documentation using 2D/3D CAD.
- Keep supervisor informed of work status, workload, concerns, and progress.
- Understand limits/fits, tolerance stack-up analysis, and Geometric Dimensional Tolerancing (GDT).
- Create and maintain detailed documentation, including specifications, drawings, and work instructions.
- Schedule and lead mold design reviews.
- Support tooling trials, validations, and troubleshooting.
- Provide technical expertise to manufacturing teams for tooling-related issues.
- Collaborate with other departments and sub-suppliers during the design, build, and sampling of new tooling projects.
- Evaluate and interpret Quality Department part measurement results and develop tooling grooming plans.
- Collaborate with PD Engineers on the design of parts, components, and assemblies.
- Analyze Mold flow & FEA results and implement necessary mold modifications.
- Design QC inspection gages and fixtures.
- Reverse engineer machine parts as needed.
- Evaluate mold production issues and provide design solutions.
- Ensure all production-related processes are in place, supported, and executed prior to handoff to production.
Requirements
- Strong knowledge of mold design principles.
- Experience in tool design review activities.
- Supervisory experience in tooling related activities.
- Strong analytical/troubleshooting skills.
- Mechanical aptitude.
- Accurate and detail-oriented.
- Excellent oral and written communication abilities, including presentation skills.
- Strong computer application skills.
- Solid understanding of Plastic Part Design / Injection Molding Guidelines.
- Knowledgeable in the use of 3D CAD packages & Data Analysis software (SolidWorks preferred).
- Team player.
- Contribute to the overall success of the company by performing all assigned duties in a professional, timely, and accurate manner.
Skills
- Injection mold tooling
- Plastic part design
- 3D modeling
- Product design
- Machining
- Polymer materials
- Project management
- SolidWorks
- Data Analysis software
- Geometric Dimensional Tolerancing (GDT)
- Mold flow analysis
- FEA analysis
Experience Level
- 3-5 years related experience
- 3-5yrs experience with Tool Designing, Part Design using SolidWorks® 3D CAD
Education Level
- AAS or equivalent in a Product Design/Mechanical Engineering discipline
- Experienced in product development
Benefits
- Standard Health, Dental, Vision Benefits
- Generous PTO
- 401K Match
About the Company
- Experience in medium/high volume Medical, Pharmaceutical or Food Industry
- Proven experience in Mechanical, Plastics/Materials Engineering and tooling
- Experience of plastic injection mold tooling and equipment troubleshooting
- Experience of polymer parts design for quality molding (design for manufacture)