Job Description
Job Description
Position Summary : 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.
Essential job functions :
- 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 assize, shape, and arrangement of parts.
Coordinate and facilitate design reviewsSketch rough layouts & compute angles, weights, surface area, dimensions, radii, clearances, tolerances & locationof holes
Plan and formulate engineering functions and organize project according to project requirementsEvaluate problems and approve design changes, specifications, and drawing releasesUse 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 andtransmit information electronically.
Training and Work experience preferred :
Work freely with customersExcellent communication skills, both written and verballyAbility to work with minimal supervision, both alone and in teamsStrong project management skillsComputer literate in CAD and Microsoft officeAbility to make technical presentations internally and to customersCapable of self-checking for completeness and accuracy of work producedAbility to speak effectively before groups of customers or employeesAbility to work with mathematical concepts such as fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometryAbility to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportionsAbility to solve practical problems and deal with multiple variables in situations where only limited standardization existsAbility to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form Management / SupervisionDegree or certificate from recognized CAD training facility3-5 yrs. experience in designing and detailing moldsEssential physical demands employee may be required to do :
Sit, stand, walk, push, pull, reach overhead, and bend to the floor.Regularly required to sit or stand, reach, bend and move about the facilityExert 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and / orExert 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently, and / orExert up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.Accommodation as required for reading computer screens and documentation.Equipment used :
Computer, calculator, copier, telephone, fax machine, plotter, printer
Working Conditions : The employee is subject to :
High noise levels from operating machinesSafety glasses required when completing certain tasks in the shopPhysical hazards from moving equipment and machine partsBreathing fumes, dust and mistWork performed in office environment with occasional need to be present on manufacturing floorMinimal travel required.Valid Driver’s license requiredAdditional comments :
The employee may be required to follow other job-related instructions and to perform other job-related duties asrequested, subject to all applicable state and federal laws.
