Tooling Designer jobs in United States
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Plastic Ingenuity · 18 hours ago

Tooling Designer

Plastic Ingenuity is committed to providing innovative, high-quality packaging for the food, healthcare, and consumer goods industries. They are seeking a Tooling Designer to design and dimension production tooling and molds, ensuring product safety and collaborating with various teams to meet customer needs.

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Responsibilities

Designs and dimensions production tooling such as steel rule dies, molds and mold plates, water cooled plates, stand-offs, air boxes, plugs, plug plates, trim plates, trim nests, knife back-ups, matched metal tooling and all related items
Follows good manufacturing practices to ensure product safety
Designs and dimensions molds of various types such as trays, blisters, clamshells, and trifolds
Develops cavity shapes and sizes to hold various products
Works closely with mold shop, production tooling, sales, prototype, and engineering personnel to get molds satisfactorily completed to meet the needs of the customer within the boundaries of company standard operating procedures
May also work directly with customers
Uses sound drafting techniques to produce accurate and complete drawings
Completes required documentation on tooling or mold changes, electronic storage of drawings and other customer or PI related data
Understands and complies with requirements regarding customer and PI confidentiality
Works on some design projects
Performs other duties as assigned

Qualification

Tooling DesignCADDrafting TechniquesMechanical SystemsManufacturing PracticesDocumentation SkillsCollaborationCustomer Focus

Required

Designs and dimensions production tooling such as steel rule dies, molds and mold plates, water cooled plates, stand-offs, air boxes, plugs, plug plates, trim plates, trim nests, knife back-ups, matched metal tooling and all related items
Follows good manufacturing practices to ensure product safety
Designs and dimensions molds of various types such as trays, blisters, clamshells, and trifolds
Develops cavity shapes and sizes to hold various products
Works closely with mold shop, production tooling, sales, prototype, and engineering personnel to get molds satisfactorily completed to meet the needs of the customer within the boundaries of company standard operating procedures
May also work directly with customers
Uses sound drafting techniques to produce accurate and complete drawings
Completes required documentation on tooling or mold changes, electronic storage of drawings and other customer or PI related data
Understands and complies with requirements regarding customer and PI confidentiality
Works on some design projects
Performs other duties as assigned
Preferred education is a 4 year degree in a technology field or engineering from an accredited school
Minimum education, given additional work experience, would be related drafting courses in another field of study
Given the preferred educational background, one year of work experience is required
Computer literacy and basic CAD familiarity is essential to success

Preferred

It is advantageous to find a person with some additional related work experience in drafting and mechanical systems
Prior related experience in the machine shop or production is very beneficial

Benefits

Full Benefits including profit sharing

Company

Plastic Ingenuity

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Plastic Ingenuity is a packaging and containers company offering vacuum forming and plastic thermoforming packaging solutions.

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage

Leadership Team

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Daniel Kuehn
President & CEO
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