Mold Designer

Company History:Fathom is one of the largest digital manufacturing platforms offering ON-DEMAND manufacturing in North America. With more than 90 large-platform industrial-grade 3D printing machines and a national footprint with more than 500,000 square feet of manufacturing capacity across 10 facilities, Fathom seamlessly blends in-house capabilities across plastic and metal additive technologies, CNC machining, injection molding & tooling, urethane casting, sheet metal fabrication, and design and engineering.With over 50 years of industry experience, Fathom is at the forefront of the industry 4.0 digital manufacturing revolution serving clients in the technology, defense, aerospace, medical, automotive and IOT sectors. Fathoms extensive certifications include ISO 9001:2015, ISO 9001:2015 Design, ISO 13485:2016, AS9100:2016, NIST 800-171 and ITAR.Mold Design Position Summary:The Mold Designer position, is a challenging position with many responsibilities. There are three primary challenges.1) Its a role where you are required to receive, request, and track down information in the form of CAD files, specifications, verbal requests, technical data, as well as other forms of customer desired deliverables from multiple sources and translate that information using Summit Tooling standards as well as your mold design and CAD capabilities to produce a mold design that will result in a mold that when built to those design specifications produces the customers product to the quality specifications desired, at the cycle time estimated, and performs reliably (with only normal maintenance) for the life of the mold to at least the number of cycles warranted to the customer.2) Creating a mold design that can be efficiently and cost effectively manufactured. Communicating with the manufacturing team, learning and understanding manufacturing techniques and applying that knowledge within the design is critical. Under design issues can result in very serious consequences and over design results in high cost. The challenge is designing in high speed performance and long low maintenance mold life.3) Meeting and communicating design delivery commitments. In order to maintain a mold delivery schedule we must maintain deliveries in our mold design area as well as the manufacturing area. Setting milestone schedule goals, measuring against those goals and working corrective actions when issues arise to get the schedule on track is extremely important. The core need here is for good consistent productivity, communication, and on-time mold design delivery.Mold Design Position Responsibilities :Mold design quality performance to project deliverables (product quality, cycle time, mold longevity, and maintenance costs).Mold design manufacturabilityMold design delivery Review and meet design delivery objectives. Communicate risk to design delivery and initiate and assist in implementation of corrective action plans to get back on track when there are delivery issues.Participate in Kick-off Work session (KOW) on assigned projects to determine and understand all the customer requirements and design team deliverables. The following is a list of critical design requirements which the designer is responsible to document using the KOW checklist:Review customer data, 2D and 3D for moldability and critical design requirements.Material resin and shrinkage.Ejection method, parting lines, runner system (hot/cold or both).Gate Location and type.Molding machine specifications and customer interface requirements (mounting method, part removal, etc.).Mold cavitation and desired molding cycle (Customer production requirements).Engineering calculations which can include cooling, de-molding, hydraulics, etc.Surface finish requirements of molded part.Establish concept and preliminary design deliverables.Create preliminary mold design layout which needs to include the following for an internal review:Goals for SpeedPursue all required and necessary design information early on in the design process.Goals for QualityDevelop a good understanding of the critical design considerations in the customers product. Critical dimensions, surface finishes, parting lines, ejection & gating requirements.Skills and Abilities:Good communication and time management skills for providing and maintaining project deliverables and end customer expectations.· 3D solids cad skills· Good knowledge of product design requirements for good moldability properties.· Excellent overall injection mold knowledge that includes:Working knowledge of mold tool steels and the proper selection process.Mold mechanical systems.Complete understanding of part ejection methods, ejection selection criteria related to plastic materials, cosmetic requirements, and amount of ejection required. Multi-stage, accelerated K.O.s and delayed ejection that may also be required.Good understanding of hot runner systems and cooling fundamentals for high cavitation and fast-cycling molds.Mold mechanical systems.

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Compensation details:

110000-130000 Yearly Salary

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