Designer, Development (Tooling)

Role overview

Design and development responsibilities

• Apply scientific and engineering principles to tooling design; create system-level concepts, function block diagrams, CAD layouts, and functional decomposition.
• Size and select components, choose materials, and apply design standards.
• Optimize designs for manufacturing, assembly, and testing; perform structural FEA, thermal, dynamics, tolerance stack-up, and other analyses.
• Create detailed drawings using GD&T, maintain design standards, verify design details, and prepare design documents and validation plans.
• Contribute to engineering documentation and ensure product development and release process steps are followed.
• Provide expertise-based leadership, mentoring, and training; lead or contribute to design reviews and brainstorming.
• Participate in or lead continuous improvement and drive collaborative product development.
• Mitigate design risks, including through FMEA, and champion compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Coordinate across analysis, electrical, software, fluid power, metallurgy, manufacturing, and validation/test disciplines.
• Represent Husky technically to customers during startup support and troubleshooting.

Education and qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• 5+ years of design execution and project leadership experience; experience in a related industry is preferred.
• Advanced knowledge of injection molding products, markets, and customer requirements.
• Expert modeling and detailing skills and ability to calculate design parameters and apply engineering principles.
• Strong understanding of stress analysis, manufacturing, and assembly processes.
• Experience selecting and sizing components using engineering calculations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills; strong time management, organization, attention to detail, problem-solving, creativity, and ownership.
• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a cohesive team.
• Experience with multiple-cavitation injection molding tooling, including PET preforms, closures, or thin-wall packaging, is an asset.
• Hands-on mechanical ability and interest in practical mechanical work.

Compensation

• The posting lists a salary range of $85,000–$130,000 without specifying a pay cadence.
• A competitive compensation and benefits package is offered.