Plastic Design Engineer

Alcon is the world's leading eye care company with sales of $5.6 billion. The company's nearly 15,000 employees worldwide, work in 75 facilities around the world to research, develop, manufacture and sell our products in more than 180 countries. As the largest eye care company in the world, Alcon leads the growing $14.5 billion market for eye care products. For 60 years, Alcon has delivered strong and stable growth, and it is positioned to build on this in the years to come. For ten consecutive years, Fortune magazine has named Alcon 'One of the 100 Best Companies to Work For'. Alcon's U.S. General Offices are located at its 300-acre campus in Fort Worth, Texas. For more information visit http://www.alcon.com ./.

We are currently recruiting for candidates with 10 years of experience in plastic design with extensive use of Pro-Engineer.

The successful candidate will provide fundamental engineering support to develop initial design concepts through proto-typing and production release. This individual will interface directly with R&D, Manufacturing and external vendors to resolve design and fabrication issues.

Duties:

·         Develop initial concepts of complex plastic injected molded products.

·         Create a surface “master model” of complex form to capture the industrial design process utilizing Pro-Engineer – Wildfire 4.0

·         Generate complex system packaging layouts using Top Down Design (TDD) methodologies.

·         Generate detailed fabrication drawings per Global DRM and ASME Y-14M with extensive knowledge of GD&T application

·         Perform part mold ability check which includes draft check, uniform wall thickness, rib and boss cross-section,  insert hole construction and surface quality

·         Perform complex  interference fit checks and tolerance analysis on large assembly

·         Oversee the development of prototyping and manufacturing processes and interface with vendor to resolve issues.

·         Provide technical input regarding: SLA process, Urethane castings and Injection Mold Tooling

·         Proficient in Pro-Engineer modules (Pro-Surface and ISDX, All Foundation modules and Adv Assembly Ext, Detail and Pro-Report)

·         Utilize Windchill PDMLink is highly desirable

Requires a BSME and 7+ years of applicable experience.

This is a contract position--You must be in  the immediate area to be considered or be able to travel/relocate yourself to Southern California to be considered.  Please do not apply if you have in the past.  Please send a WORD copy of your resume.  No Calls Please. 

Alcon is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to quality through diversity. M/F/D/V. Pre-employment drug testing.