Design Engineering - Design Engineer - Mould Tooling

Design Engineering - Design Engineer - Mould Tooling

Amphenol Ltd - Whitstable, Thanet Way, Whitstable, Kent, United Kingdom

Posted Tuesday 25 November 2025 at 06:00

With innovation and engineering at the heart of our business, Amphenol Ltd (ALTD) has been at the forefront of using the latest technologies and practices for over 50 years to meet the needs of interconnection in a variety of applications. As part of the Amphenol Corporation – a leading global interconnect Fortune 500 specialist company, ALTD is continuing to grow and significantly investing in the future.

Based in Whitstable, Kent, ALTD has maintained its status as a market leader in the Aerospace and Military industries and growth targets remain on track as part of our strategic plan. With approximately 230 employees across a wide range of disciplines, our end‑to‑end manufacturing capabilities provide endless opportunities for our employees to grow their career and professional experiences.

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To support team in addressing immediate production stops by investigating, identifying root cause and implementing component and tooling design updates inline with manufacturability.

To advise on NPI projects supporting DFM / DFMEA for moulded part / tooling design.

• Contributes to the Moulding Engineering Design workload as required.
• Use extensive knowledge and experience of modern plastic and or rubber injection moulding processes, strengthened with recognised quality tools to:
• Provide fast turnaround corrective actions for Process/Quality issues affecting production, and/or customer concerns within the mould shop.
• Ensure corrective actions meet quality standards, are documented, released back to production and produce lasting consistent excellence of part quality and customer satisfaction.
• Analyse existing moulding process / process tooling to define areas for improvement.
• Define, perform and document trials and resulting process improvements. Monitor enhanced processes to ensure improvements are maintained.
• Support validation, documentation, and implementation to production status of both new mould tools and processes.
• Collaborate with colleagues & cross functional teams across the business by providing moulding process & material knowledge in NPI / APQP project meetings.
• Advise on alternatives for obsolete or hard to obtain materials.
• Design, verifies, prepares, and maintains detailed 3D models, technical design drawings, schematics or specifications for 3D moulded components and tooling using Computer Aided Design (CAD) software (currently Creo) and Microsoft software packages (Excel, Word, etc.) ready for manufacture.
• Able to optimise new component / mould tooling designs using simulation tools such as Moldex 3D.
• Able to prioritise tasks and progress all work in accordance with published plans and requirements and report progress as required.
• Resolves manufacturing and other issues in both the early stages of product design and development, as well as responding to requests for assistance to resolve issues with existing products by PRES, Source Change processes, etc.
• Coordinates drawing and drawing control activities.
• Possess good understanding of current and new emerging moulding / manufacturing methods, ensuring that product development manufacturing needs are correctly aligned.
• Interfaces as necessary with both internal and external customers during the mould design process / investigation and rectification process.
• Provides a formal handover of designed product to the Manufacturing Process Engineering group, via pre‑production process & design reviews.
• Adherence to current Amphenol policies typically including COSHH for the introduction of new materials/chemicals into test, development or production.
• Carries out such other duties that may be reasonably requested.

• Minimum BEng level qualification in Mechanical Engineering or Scientific subject.
• Currently or working towards…