Senior Tooling Engineer - LSR & Medical Molding Expert

Kamatics Corporation; San Clemente (CA); On-site; USD 117,000 - 142,000; Full time

Job summary

IRP Medical is seeking a Senior Tooling Engineer in San Clemente, CA to design, develop, and optimize tooling for LSR molded components used in medical applications.

The ideal candidate will have 8+ years of injection mold design experience, strong SolidWorks/AutoCAD skills, and a solid understanding of GD&T, mold construction, and validation protocols. Travel up to 10% may be required for tooling vendors.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and project coordination abilities.
• Experience interpreting GD&T and engineering drawings.

Responsibilities

• Optimize mold designs for manufacturability, cycle time reduction, part quality, venting, gating, and automation compatibility.
• Collaborate with product engineering, manufacturing, quality, and process engineering teams to ensure tooling meets functional and production requirements.
• Develop and maintain tooling documentation, revision control, BOMs, maintenance standards, and engineering change records.
• Generate mold design concepts (Solidworks) to support new products, or re-design tooling for existing products to improve efficiency.
• Lead tooling troubleshooting activities related to flash, short shots, air entrapment, knit lines, dimensional variation, and cosmetic defects.
• Coordinate with external tool shops, suppliers, and internal machining teams during tool fabrication and qualification.
• Recommend improvements for tooling reliability, preventive maintenance, and process capability.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives related to tooling performance, scrap reduction, and manufacturing efficiency.
• Create detailed 3D CAD models, mold layouts, and manufacturing drawings.
• Support mold flow analysis, tolerance stack-ups, shrinkage calculations, and DFM reviews.
• Participate in mold trials, process validations, FAI activities, and production launches.
• Ensure compliance with customer specifications, ISO standards, safety requirements, and industry regulations.
• Ability to travel to Tooling vendors as needed, travel time up to 10%.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Communication

Project coordination

Team collaboration

Time management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical/Manufacturing/Tool Engineering

Tools

SolidWorks

AutoCAD

Job description

IRP Medical is seeking a Senior Tooling Engineer in San Clemente, CA to design, develop, and optimize tooling for LSR molded components used in medical applications.

The ideal candidate will have 8+ years of injection mold design experience, strong SolidWorks/AutoCAD skills, and a solid understanding of GD&T, mold construction, and validation protocols. Travel up to 10% may be required for tooling vendors.