Senior Mold Designer

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:

• Five years or more hands-on design experience of multi-cavity injection molds.
• 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).
• Willing to travel between New Albany, Indiana and/or other global locations as required.

Education:

• High School diploma or GED is required.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or relevant technical education is preferred.