Mold Designer

The Injection Mold Designer is responsible for designing high precision, multi-cavity injection mold tools while supporting technical issues and tooling enhancements in a fast moving production environment.

Responsibilities

Designing high precision, multi-cavity injection mold tools while supporting technical issues and tooling enhancements in a fast moving production environment; Handle all aspects of design work, ensuring all specifications are met; Directly communicate with customers via quotations, meetings, and presentations to understand and define their needs; Work with customers to define and document requirements, address technical concerns and provide project status; Understand and respond to customer requests, both verbal and written; Act as technical expert for the company internally and externally; Provide support to planning, manufacturing, assembly, quality, and production as required; Work closely with all departments to ensure that the drawings convey the correct information and are error free; Analyze engineering sketches, specifications, and related data and drawings to determine design factors such as size, shape, and arrangement of parts; Coordinate and facilitate design reviews; Sketch rough layouts & compute angles, weights, surface area, dimensions, radii, clearances, tolerances & location of holes; Plan and formulate engineering functions and organize project according to project requirements; Evaluate problems and approve design changes, specifications, and drawing releases; Use computer assisted design & drafting equipment and software to develop designs; Work from customer drawings, company drawings, and government drawings or specifications; Calculate tolerance stack-ups to verify design fit and accuracy; Manage several projects at one time; Follow systems for organization, control, and archiving of electronic and paper documents and files; Receive and transmit information electronically

Requirements

Sit, stand, walk, push, pull, reach overhead, and bend to the floor; Regularly required to sit or stand, reach, bend and move about the facility; Exert 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally; Exert 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently; Exert up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects; Accommodation as required for reading computer screens and documentation

Nice to have

Work freely with customers; Excellent communication skills, both written and verbally; Ability to work with minimal supervision, both alone and in teams; Strong project management skills; Computer literate in CAD and Microsoft office; Ability to make technical presentations internally and to customers; Capable of self-checking for completeness and accuracy of work produced; Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees; Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry; Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions; Ability to solve practical problems and deal with multiple variables in situations where only limited standardization exists; Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form; Degree or certificate from recognized CAD training facility; 3-5 yrs. experience in designing and detailing molds