Tooling Engineer/Designer (Plastic Injection Molding)

Position Summary

We are seeking a Tooling Engineer / Designer to join the SyBridge engineering team at our Fitchburg, Massachusetts facility. This individual will work closely within the Engineering department and closely with the Operations and Commercial teams. This individual will be in charge of creating and owning the mold tool design and subsequent documentation. This role is required to be onsite at our Fitchburg, Massachusetts facility.

Key Responsibilities

• Complete engineering projects such as designing tooling
• Verify and check functional needs of manifold and ensure meets mold flow requirements
• Modify and/or develop cooling and ejection system
• Verify mechanisms function properly in the design
• Understand and apply customer or SyBridge standards to the mold design
• Verify mold meets customer & try-out locations press parameters
• Incorporate machining and mold making best practices with consideration for best cost and timing
• Independently attend customer reviews as needed
• Incorporate all customer & SyBridge safety standards into all tool designs
• Initiate purchase requisitions for block size, manifolds, and other purchased components
• Successfully maintain a fluctuating workload, multi-task on jobs and conflicting priorities, sufficient information to proceed with work
• Ensure confidence in being the key authority Ensuring adequate steel and seal-off conditions, water locations, ejection quantity/size, tool strength (pillars, manifold cutout, plate thickness), assembly feasibility, approve manifolds
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Three to five years of related experience designing tooling/plastic injection molds or equivalent experience
• Three to five years of experience with CAD (SolidWorks preferred)
• Proficient with Microsoft office (i.e, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Must be able to work independently to scheduled workloads, with ability to perform under pressure
• Ability to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines as required
• Strong attention to detail is required
• Strong leadership, communication, and relationship building skills
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and communicating with cross-functional teams