Tool Engineer Tool Maker

Your Job

Are you a skilled tooling professional who enjoys solving complex manufacturing challenges and turning innovative designs into high-quality production solutions? In this role, you will design, develop, and support plastic injection mold tooling and fixtures while collaborating across engineering, manufacturing, and tooling teams. You will use your technical expertise to improve manufacturability, tooling performance, quality, cost, and delivery

Our Team

You will work as part of a collaborative manufacturing and engineering team supporting plastic injection molding and tooling operations. The team partners closely with product designers, process engineers, production personnel, toolmakers, CNC programmers, and external vendors to develop and optimize tooling solutions.

What You Will Do

• Design and develop plastic injection mold tooling and fixtures from concept through manufacturing
• Evaluate product designs for manufacturability and recommend improvements that enhance quality, reduce cost, and improve delivery timelines
• Collaborate with product designers, process engineers, production teams, toolmakers, CNC programmers, and suppliers to optimize tooling designs
• Specify purchased tooling components, including mold frames and other mold components, and support timely and accurate delivery
• Create, maintain, and distribute tooling models and drawings for programmers, toolmakers, management, and other key stakeholders
• Diagnose and troubleshoot existing tooling issues and develop practical solutions that improve performance and reliability
• Participate in tooling design reviews and contribute recommendations for continuous improvement
• Support tooling projects by monitoring progress against cost and timing expectations
• Program and operate manufacturing equipment, including CNC machines, Wire EDM, hole popper, and EDM equipment
• Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of tooling standards, modeling practices, file storage procedures, and quality processes
• Support a safe, quality-focused manufacturing environment by following established procedures and company quality requirements

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related technical discipline
• 7+ years of experience designing plastic injection mold tooling and fixtures
• Experience with injection mold components, including tooling fits and clearances
• Experience applying dimensional tolerancing and Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) principles to tooling or manufacturing designs
• Experience with CAD software and manufacturing equipment used in toolmaking, including CNC, Wire EDM, or EDM equipment

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience with SolidWorks, SolidWorks Plastics, and PDM
• Experience programming and operating CNC, Wire EDM, hole popper, and EDM equipment
• Demonstrated ability to visualize and develop complex three-dimensional geometry and mechanical motion
• Experience identifying manufacturability improvements that reduce tooling cost, improve quality, or shorten production timelines
• Experience collaborating across product design, process engineering, production, toolmaking, CNC programming, and supplier teams

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Hiring Philosophy

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Who We Are

As a Koch company, Molex is a leading supplier of connectors and interconnect components, driving 

innovation in electronics and supporting industries from automotive to health care and consumer to 

data communications. The thousands of innovators who work for Molex have made us a global 

electronics leader. Our experienced people, groundbreaking products and leading-edge 

technologies help us deliver a wider array of solutions to more markets than ever before.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).

In order to comply with U.S. export control laws and regulations, this position requires applicants to either provide proof of U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent resident status or be eligible to receive an export authorization (a license) under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations and/or the Export Administration Regulations.