Important: This position is in Twin Falls, Idaho. Please do not apply unless you are willing to relocate to Twin Falls. Relocation assistance is offered.
Seastrom Manufacturing Company, Inc.
Opportunity: Tool Design Engineer - Full Time, Part Time, Flexible Schedule
Seastrom Manufacturing is looking for an experienced and highly motivated individual with a background in mechanical engineering to join its growing team. The Tool Design Engineer will design simple and complex progressive and compound dies, provide technical support for Die Makers, Quality department, and CNC departments. Research and support product improvements through die design.
This position requires the ability to consistently follow processes and schedules independently, with periodic interaction with managers and others. The ideal candidate will be a team-oriented individual who possesses a strong personal value commitment dedicated to professionalism, problem solving, and adaptability.
BENEFITS (begin the first day of the month following the hire date):
Relocation assistance is available
Comprehensive benefits package including Health, Dental, Vision, Life, and Long-Term Disability
Additional voluntary benefits such as additional life, accidental death, and critical illness
401K program with company-matching
Paid time off (PTO) from 1 to 3 weeks depending on length of service
Personal Days - up to 2 per year
Nine (9) company-paid holidays
Profit Sharing
Referral program
Length of service program for full-time employees
Drug-free workplace
Safe, clean, climate-controlled facility
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following:
Perform strip layout for all products (new and old).
Use various Computer Aided Design (CAD) programs.
Communicate with customers for product clarification and improvement.
Maintain continuity within all designs.
Consistently consider how to standardize set-ups and increase running speeds.
Create and help maintain maintenance programs on all dies.
Continue to use sensors to help increase production.
Think creatively and engineer new solutions.
Quote jobs.
Provide tech support to help with customer designs.
Create templates.
Train entry level die designers.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
4-Year Tool & Die Maker apprenticeship and Journeyman card preferred.
Ability to read, write and speak the English language with comprehension skills sufficient to understand safety standards and job performance expectations.
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals in addition to practical application of trigonometry, geometry, calculus, and physics. The ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
Ability to interpret instructions which may be furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; use hands to finger, handle, or grab; reach with hands and arms; and talk and hear, to walk and stoop, kneel, crouch and reach. Some sitting is required. The employee is frequently required to lift and/or move 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly exposed to inside conditions, moving mechanical parts, oils and/or cutting fluids. The noise level in the environment is quiet to loud.