Mold Designer

About the role

The Injection Mold Designer at Prism Plastics, Inc. 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

• 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.
• Clockwise layout & 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

• Training and Work Experience: Preferred - Work freely with customers, Excellent communication skills, both written and verbally, 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, Management/Supervision - Degree or certificate from recognized CAD training facility, 3-5 years experience in designing and detailing molds.

Essential Physical Demands

• 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, and/or Exert 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or Exert up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.

Qualifications

• Must have a valid driver's license.
• Must be able to pass a drug test.
• Must be able to pass a background check.