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Tool Designer

Woods Equipment
Oregon, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 11/19/2025 CLOSED ON 12/16/2025

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Tool Designer position at Woods Equipment?

Work Location: Oregon, IL

Let’s Get After It.

At Woods Equipment Company, we are a passionate group of people dedicated to a spirit of innovation and outside the box thinking to create the world’s most efficient agriculture products and attachments. We believe in inspiring, listening, learning, and rolling up our sleeves to “get after it” together. We serve a higher purpose than the products we make and are devoted to positively impacting people, communities, and landscapes around the world. We are built on a pioneering spirit, leading with humility, global stewardship, and owning it day in and day out. We know what it takes to get the job done, and we know our people are the way it happens. Come join our team!

HOW YOU MAKE AN IMPACT:

Design and develop new industrial tools and equipment that will support Continuous Flow Manufacturing, worker safety, and product quality.

THE DETAILS:

  • Work closely with Product Engineering, Tooling, Manufacturing Engineering and the Production departments to plan new tool designs and equipment
  • Provide Tooling personnel with detailed drawings and sketches that accurately depict designs, dimensions, and operations to be performed
  • Works extensively with Product Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering to develop tooling and equipment that accomplishes product design and manufacturing requirements
  • Coordinate with Production Supervisors for producing tooling components manufactured in the plant
  • Coordinate with Manufacturing Engineers and Production Supervisors to implement new tooling and for adjustments/enhancements of existing tooling


QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS:

  • Completion of a two-year college or technical degree in manufacturing or tool design is preferred
  • Three years’ experience in Tool Design, designing jigs, weld, machining fixtures and assembly tools, as well as drafting and/or CAD experience using 3-D solids modeling (SolidWorks preferred)
  • Strong math, trigonometry and geometry skills
  • Good organizational skills
  • Team player attitude is required
  • Be willing to work overtime as required and work with minimum supervision. This person should also understand the concept of JIT manufacturing


At Oregon Tool, we provide a reasonable, good-faith estimate of the compensation range for this role of $60,000 to $75,000. Final offers are based on various factors such as experience, skills, qualifications and internal equity. This range may vary based on geographic location where the position is filled, and most new hires are not typically hired at the top of the range.

WHAT WE OFFER:

  • Medical, Dental, and Vision Benefits available on day one (no waiting period)
  • 401k matching (100% of first 3%, 50% of next 3% = 4.5% match on 6% contribution)
  • Earn up to 120 hours vacation during your first year of service
  • One paid Community Involvement Day available per calendar year
  • Global company with small company feel
  • Casual work attire


WHO WE ARE:

Woods Equipment, part of the Oregon Tool, Inc. family of brands.

Oregon Tool, Inc. is a global, premium-branded, aftermarket-driven precision-cutting-tool platform. At Oregon Tool, Inc., it is our goal to create, cultivate and sustain a global, inclusive culture, where differences drive innovative solutions to meet the needs of our employees and customers. We invite and encourage applications from all skilled individuals, including from groups that are traditionally underrepresented, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes our company #SharperTogether.

To learn more about our company and history visit us at: www.oregontool.com

Oregon Tool, Inc. will only employ those who are legally authorized to work. Any offer of employment is contingent on a background investigation and drug screen. Oregon Tool, Inc. does not discriminate based on sex, race, color, religion, age, marital status, national origin, citizenship, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected under law. 

During the application process we will not ask for or collect any confidential, proprietary, or sensitive personally identifiable information (e.g., date of birth; driver’s license number; or credit card, bank account or other financial information). If you submit such information, you do so at your own risk, and we will not be liable to you or responsible for consequences of your submission. This notice should not be construed as an offer of employment or creating any terms of employment. 

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Salary : $60,000 - $75,000

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