Manufacturing Engineer - Injection Mold Design

Dynomax Inc; Wheeling (IL); On-site; USD 75,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Company-paid life insurance

401(k) Plan with generous match

Discretionary annual bonus

Job summary

Dynomax is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer to design injection molds and manage tool life cycle for electrical components. You will design molds to customer prints, participate in design reviews, and develop manufacturability improvements.

Responsibilities include quoting mold tool requests, maintaining tool metrics, and using Solidworks and Epicor to document processes. Requires hands-on mold design experience and a plastics engineering background.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering required; Plastics Engineering degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Review and quote new mold tool requests.
• Design injection molds for new parts to customer print and specifications.
• Participate in design reviews, ensuring molds meet requirements while manufacturable.
• Establish tool maintenance metrics and design repairs for mold tools.
• Prepare layouts, drawings, and docs using CAD (SolidWorks).
• Use Epicor to create Methods of Manufacture and routing packets.
• Track tooling component inventory and ensure stock.
• Suggest design standard updates and process improvements.

Skills

Mold design

CAD SolidWorks

ERP Epicor

MOM routing

Manufacturing processes

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

SolidWorks

Job description

MANUFACTURING ENGINEER - INJECTION MOLD DESIGN

Dynomax is a full-service injection molder in the aerospace and defense industries. We perform all mold building, injection molding, automation, maintenance and repair in-house, which enables us to control the entire process for exceptional quality assurance. We have an opportunity available for a Manufacturing Engineer, who will be responsible for design and life cycle management of injection molding tools for the production of electrical components.

Manufacturing Engineer Responsibilities:

• Review and quote new mold tool requests
• Design injection molds for new parts to customer print and specifications
• Participate in design reviews, ensuring that injection molds can produce parts that meet customer requirements while designing for manufacturability
• Establish tool maintenance metrics, assess damaged or broken mold tools, and design repairs of mold tools
• Design and development engineering layouts, drawings, and documentation for components, assemblies, and subassemblies using CAD system (Solidworks)
• Utilize ERP system (Epicor) to create Methods of Manufacture (MOM) and routing packets
• Track inventory of tooling components, including blank blocks, core pins, etc and ensure necessary parts are stocked
• In a Continuous Improvement environment, recommend design standard updates and recommend improvements to processes

Manufacturing Engineer Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering required; Plastics Engineering degree preferred
• Minimum of 2years’ experience in mold design within an injection molding environment
• Knowledge of mold assembly and its effects on processing capabilities
• Knowledge of engineering grade materials including thermosets, thermoplastics, silicone, PEEK, Teflon
• Experience with CAD Software (Solidworks preferred)

Benefits Include:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Company-paid life insurance
• 401(k) Plan with a generous Company match
• Paid holidays, vacation days, PTO days
• Optional FSA and Identity Theft Protection
• Optional Short Term Disability, Accident, Critical Illness, and Supplemental Life Insurance
• Discretionary annual bonus

Manufacture a great career with Dynomax!

Dynomax provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.