Mold Designer

Prism Plastics, Inc.; Meadville (Crawford County); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Prism Plastics, Inc. is seeking an Injection Mold Designer to design high precision, multi-cavity injection mold tools and support tooling enhancements in a fast-moving production environment.

You will analyze drawings, communicate with customers, document requirements, manage multiple projects, and ensure drawings are accurate. Proficiency in CAD and strong attention to detail are essential, with collaboration across planning, manufacturing, quality, and assembly.

Qualifications

• Experience designing high-precision multi-cavity molds.
• Ability to read customer drawings and translate into tooling specifications.
• Proficiency with CAD software and tolerance analysis.
• Strong communication with customers and internal teams.

Responsibilities

• Handle all aspects of design work and ensure specifications are met.
• Communicate with customers via quotations, meetings, and presentations.
• Document requirements and address technical concerns.
• Analyze sketches, specs, and drawings to determine design factors.
• Coordinate design reviews and manage multiple projects.
• Use CAD tools to develop final designs and drawings.

Skills

CAD

Mold design

Customer comms

Project mgmt

MS Office

Education

CAD training certification

Tools

AutoCAD

SolidWorks

Job description

Prism Plastics, Inc. As a part of the global industrial organization Marmon Holdings—which is backed by Berkshire Hathaway—you’ll be doing things that matter, leading at every level, and winning a better way. We’re committed to making a positive impact on the world, providing you with diverse learning and working opportunities, and fostering a culture where everyone’s empowered to be their best.

The Injection Mold Designer is responsible for designing high precision, multi-cavity injection mold tools while supporting technical issues and tooling enhancements in a fast moving production environment.

Essential job functions

• 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.
• Coordinate and facilitate design reviews Sketch rough layouts & 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.

Training and Work experience preferred

• Work freely with customers.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbally.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision, both alone and in teams.
• 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 yrs. experience in designing and detailing molds.

Essential physical demands employee may be required to do

• 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.

Accommodation as required for reading computer screens and documentation.

Following receipt of a conditional offer of employment, candidates will be required to complete additional job-related screening processes as permitted or required by applicable law.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all applicants will be considered for employment without attention to their membership in any protected class.

If you require any reasonable accommodation to complete your application or any part of the recruiting process, please email your request to [e-mail], and please be sure to include the title and the location of the position for which you are applying.

Welcome to the biggest small business you’ll ever find.

Part of Berkshire Hathaway, Marmon is a global industrial organization made of 11 industry groups with 30K employees and $12 billion in annual revenue. As leaders in their respective industries, our 120+ companies thrive on an independent mindset and entrepreneurial spirit. At the same time, they benefit from being part of our industry groups—where they’re able to tap into the expertise and insights of other Marmon companies. While we’re all unique, we all share a common commitment to doing things that matter, leading at every level, and winning a better way. When you work at Marmon, you’re advancing our everyday world and beyond. Our engineering solutions help millions around the world stay connected, healthy, and safe. Wherever you're at in your career, our people and resources will help you go further. As you grow your skills, you can also move up and around our 120+ companies. Work at a place you can stand behind. We show up to win every day, uphold the highest ethical standards, and always look to put each other in the best position to win.