Mold Design Engineer

Jabil • Gurnee, IL

38d

About The Position

At Jabil (NYSE: JBL), we are proud to be a trusted partner for the world's top brands, offering comprehensive engineering, supply chain, and manufacturing solutions. With 60 years of experience across industries and a vast network of over 100 sites worldwide, Jabil combines global reach with local expertise to deliver both scalable and customized solutions. Our commitment extends beyond business success as we strive to build sustainable processes that minimize environmental impact and foster vibrant and diverse communities around the globe. JOB SUMMARY Designs, fabricates, modifies, evaluates and documents molded assemblies, components, and systems to produce or improve company products and facilitate manufacturing operations. Develops data and makes preliminary sketches, lay-outs and notes required to present design proposals. Researches basic design factors such as ease of manufacture and availability of materials and equipment. Works with other organizations impacted by design development. May perform work in a specific sub-specialty such as Automation, Mechanical Engineering, Mold Design, or Tooling. Please see Addendum for specific sub-specialty requirements. This description is designed to capture the general elements of Engineering work.

Requirements

• Understands processes and has a basic understanding of various manufacturing techniques
• Basic knowledge of engineering theories, design principles and practices, and design evaluation techniques.
• Proficiency in use of personal computers, Microsoft Office products (Excel, Word and PowerPoint) and e-mail skills required.

Responsibilities

• Assists in the design and development of plastic molded sub-assemblies, components, and packaging.
• Assists in the development and implementation of changes to product design and/or the manufacturing process to achieve efficiency, quality, and/or cost improvements by participating in new product development programs.
• Assists in developing requirement specifications, system concepts, CAD generated machine layouts, detail drawings, BOM’s and budgets. Makes layouts of basic assemblies and details of parts of devices, mechanisms and structures.
• Assists in providing customer product design engineering for economic production; may participate in meetings with customers.
• Assists in assessing proper material, tooling, automation and equipment selection.
• Assists manufacturing in trouble-shooting problems, upgrades, retrofits, set-ups, methods development, and the development of process parameters
• Participates in product development meetings and may make recommendations to product design changes to enhance manufacturing and assembly.
• May conduct proof of concept experiments and design other testing requirements as needed.
• May develop SOP’s, operations and maintenance manuals.
• May research new technology or development tools to remain informed of current technology.
• Basic understanding of Lean Six Sigma tools, projects and processes and ability to incorporate these into assigned engineering projects.
• Reviews completed projects for accuracy, clarity and completeness.
• Ensures projects are compliant with all local, regional and national regulatory requirements/codes and controls.
• Supports all company safety and quality programs and initiatives.
• May perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Benefits

• medical, dental, and vision insurance plans
• paid time off accruing at a rate of 3.07 hours during your first year of employment
• 4 weeks of paid parental leave
• in 2026, 11 company-paid holidays (9 fixed holidays and 2 optional floating holidays), subject to change yearly
• 401(k) retirement plan
• employee stock purchase plan

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed