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This role translates customer and engineering requirements into robust, manufacturable tooling solutions and partners closely with Tooling, Process Engineering, NPI, Quality, Operations, suppliers, and customers from concept through qualification and production support at Forj Medical's Vadnais Heights site.\nJob Duties and Responsibilities:\nCreate and maintain detailed 3D models, assemblies, drawings, bills of materials, and design documentation for injection molds, mold components, fixtures, and related tooling.\nDevelop tooling concepts that address part geometry, resin characteristics, shrink, gating, venting, cooling, ejection, manufacturability, cycle time, quality, serviceability, and expected tool life.\nLead and support design-for-manufacturability reviews with customers and cross-functional teams; identify technical risks and recommend practical solutions early in the development process.\nReview customer models, prints, specifications, tolerances, and revision requirements to ensure tooling designs align with intended product and process requirements.\nCollaborate with toolmakers, machinists, process engineers, and external tool shops to ensure designs can be manufactured, assembled, sampled, maintained, and repaired effectively.\nSupport mold-flow analysis, tolerance analysis, stack-up reviews, material selection, and tooling standards as appropriate to the program.\nParticipate in tool design reviews, project meetings, mold trials, troubleshooting, qualification activities, and production-readiness reviews.\nEvaluate existing molds and recommend design changes to improve part quality, cycle time, reliability, cavitation, uptime, and ease of maintenance.\nManage design changes and technical records in accordance with document-control, configuration-management, customer, quality-system, and regulatory requirements.\nProvide accurate technical inputs for quotations, schedules, capital requests, and supplier decisions.\nSupport root-cause investigations and corrective actions related to tooling performance or molded-part quality.\nContribute to standard work, design libraries, lessons learned, and continuous-improvement efforts across the molding organization.\nPerform other duties and support strategic projects as assigned.\n\nQualifications:\nEducation\nAssociate degree in Mechanical Design, Tool Design, Engineering Technology, or a related field required; bachelor's degree preferred.\nEquivalent combination of education, apprenticeship, and directly related experience may be considered.\n\nExperience\nFive or more years of injection-mold or precision-tooling design experience preferred.\nExperience designing complex, multi-cavity, hot-runner, insert-molding, overmolding, or high-precision tooling strongly preferred.\nExperience in medical device, regulated manufacturing, or contract manufacturing preferred.\n\nKnowledge, Skills & Abilities\nAdvanced proficiency with 3D CAD and detailed drawing practices; SolidWorks or comparable software experience preferred.\nStrong knowledge of injection-mold construction, machining methods, tool steels, polymers, GD&T, tolerance analysis, and DFM principles.\nAbility to read and interpret technical drawings, specifications, and customer requirements.\nPractical problem-solving, organization, and communication skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities.\nAbility to collaborate effectively with customers, suppliers, engineering, quality, operations, and hands-on technical teams.\n\nWorking Conditions\nOffice environment\nManufacturing environment\n\nCompensation \nThe expected starting salary for this position is $95,000 to $120,000 depending on qualifications. 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