Summary/Objective: The Senior Mold Designer is responsible for designing tools for injection mold parts as well as global coordination of molded part development.
Essential Functions/ Responsibilities:
- Design mold components, sub-assemblies, and full assemblies based on design standards, current steel manufacturing techniques/tolerances, and product design requirements.
- Tool design and development for new products as well as sustaining projects (e.g. capacity expansions, quality related projects).
- Work directly with purchasing, quality, product engineering, manufacturing engineering, test engineering, process engineering, and other necessary groups as a cross functional team to develop products/solutions.
- Adhere to all corporate engineering standards including but not limited to documentation and file management.
- Autonomously plans and schedules own daily tasks, develops solutions to problems utilizing education, experience, and judgment.
“The responsibilities as defined are intended to serve as a general guideline for this position. Associates may be asked to perform additional tasks depending on strengths and capabilities”
Required Experience:
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Five years or more hands-on design experience of multi-cavity injection molds.
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3D CAD experience is required. Solidworks strongly preferred.
- Must be a self-starter with strong leadership.
- Excellent communication skills and demonstrated problem solving ability.
- Excellent interpersonal skills in relating to both internal and external customers.
- Proficient is MS Office applications (PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Outlook).
- Knowledge of steel machining techniques, mold design, injection mold materials. (including but not limited to horizontal and vertical/insert).
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Willing to travel between New Albany, Indiana and/or other global locations as required.
Education:
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High School diploma or GED is required.
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Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or relevant technical education is preferred.