Sr Tool & Mold Maker

Alcon • Houston, TX

68d

About The Position

At Alcon, we're passionate about enhancing sight and helping people see brilliantly. With more than 25,000 associates, we innovate fearlessly, champion progress, and act swiftly to impact global eye health. We foster an inclusive culture, recognizing your contributions and offering opportunities to grow your career like never before. Together, we make a difference in the lives of our patients and customers. Are you ready to join us? This role is part of Alcon's Engineering function, a team focused on improving quality, processes, products, packaging and materials across our business to help deliver brilliant outcomes. The Sr. Tool & Mold Maker is primarily responsible for handling complex tasks in mold tooling design and plastic injection molding processes. You will apply advanced technical skills and problem-solving abilities while adhering to procedures. As a Sr. Tool & Mold Maker, you will be trusted to support production operations by helping troubleshoot, diagnose, and make repairs to injection molds at our Manufacturing Facility in Houston, TX.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or equivalent
• The ability to fluently read, write, understand, and communicate in English.
• 2 Years of Relevant Experience
• Work Hours: Tuesday - Friday; 4:00am - 2:30pm CST
• Travel Requirements: 0 - 5%
• Relocation Assistance: None
• Sponsorship Available: No

Nice To Haves

• Manufacturing toolroom experience within Medical Device Industry
• Understanding of mold design, function, and applications.
• Ability to diagnose problems in a production environment to determine when mold repairs are needed.
• Working knowledge of fits, tolerances and allowable mold running parameters.
• Basic hot runner repair.
• Proficient in mold polishing.

Responsibilities

• Handle highly complex technical tasks related to mold tooling design and plastic injection molding processes, supporting operations and contributing to efficiency within defined procedures.
• Make significant decisions within the scope of your tasks, requiring advanced technical skills and problem-solving abilities.
• Adhere to GxP regulations by strictly following Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and maintaining accurate and complete documentation.
• Ensure rigorous quality control and comply with regulatory requirements.
• Complete all required training and commit to continuous improvement in operations.
• Maintain precision molds in a production environment.
• Evaluate and complete repairs/modifications and perform mold preventative maintenance.
• Collect and document measurement results and generate reports.
• Perform routine operation of tool room equipment including, but not limited to manual mills, lathes, surface grinders, CNC and EDM machines.
• Disassemble, clean, repair, and replace defective parts in a variety of complex Molding Tools.
• Perform mold and tooling setups and repairs, verification of part quality and critical process parameters, mold evaluations and recommendation of repairs/modifications, basic machine and mold maintenance, and monitor/verify daily production quantities and efficiencies in accordance with standard operating procedures.
• Evaluate new processes, components, products, and systems in conformance with engineering specifications.
• Test, adjust, and maintain electromechanical, mechanical, optical, pneumatic, hydro mechanical, and pressure-type measuring and indicating instruments.
• Set up methods and procedures according to detailed specifications, blueprints, drawings, and requirements.
• Assign and monitor work for other technicians.
• Isolate problems for further analyses.
• This role is a critical component of our 7 days a week Toolroom support, for our four molding production suites.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Retirement plan
• Flexible time off
• And much more!

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Industry: Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
• Education Level: High school or GED
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees