Senior Medical Tooling & Injection Mold Designer

Forj Medical; Saint Paul (MN); On-site; USD 95,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401K with company match

Paid time off

Job summary

Forj Medical is hiring a Tool Designer to design, develop, and improve injection molds and fixtures for medical-device components. You will translate customer and engineering requirements into robust tooling while partnering with tooling, process engineering, NPI, quality, and operations at our Vadnais Heights site.

The role demands 5+ years of tooling design experience, strong 3D CAD skills (SolidWorks preferred), and a deep understanding of mold construction and DFM.

Qualifications

• Advanced proficiency with 3D CAD and detailed drawing practices.
• Strong knowledge of injection-mold construction, machining methods, tool steels, polymers, GD&T, tolerance analysis, and DFM principles.
• Ability to read and interpret technical drawings, specifications, and customer requirements.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain detailed 3D models, assemblies, drawings, bills of materials, and design documentation for injection molds, mold components, fixtures, and related tooling.
• Develop tooling concepts that address part geometry, resin characteristics, shrink, gating, venting, cooling, ejection, manufacturability, cycle time, quality, serviceability, and expected tool life.
• Lead and support design-for-manufacturability reviews with customers and cross-functional teams; identify technical risks and recommend practical solutions early in the development process.
• Review customer models, prints, specifications, tolerances, and revision requirements to ensure tooling designs align with intended product and process requirements.
• Collaborate with toolmakers, machinists, process engineers, and external tool shops to ensure designs can be manufactured, assembled, sampled, maintained, and repaired effectively.
• Support mold-flow analysis, tolerance analysis, stack-up reviews, material selection, and tooling standards as appropriate to the program.
• Participate in tool design reviews, project meetings, mold trials, troubleshooting, qualification activities, and production-readiness reviews.
• Evaluate existing molds and recommend design changes to improve part quality, cycle time, reliability, cavitation, uptime, and ease of maintenance.
• Manage design changes and technical records in accordance with document-control, configuration-management, customer, quality-system, and regulatory requirements.
• Provide accurate technical inputs for quotations, schedules, capital requests, and supplier decisions.
• Support root-cause investigations and corrective actions related to tooling performance or molded-part quality.
• Contribute to standard work, design libraries, lessons learned, and continuous-improvement efforts across the molding organization.
• Perform other duties and support strategic projects as assigned.

Skills

3D CAD

GD&T

DFM principles

Read drawings

Problem solving

Collaboration

Education

Associate degree in Mechanical Design, Tool Design, Engineering Technology, or related field

Equivalent combination of education, apprenticeship, and directly related experience

Tools

SolidWorks

Job description

Forj Medical is hiring a Tool Designer to design, develop, and improve injection molds and fixtures for medical-device components. You will translate customer and engineering requirements into robust tooling while partnering with tooling, process engineering, NPI, quality, and operations at our Vadnais Heights site.

The role demands 5+ years of tooling design experience, strong 3D CAD skills (SolidWorks preferred), and a deep understanding of mold construction and DFM.