Tool Design Engineer

Work Schedule: 9x80 A

Pay Range: $40 -$55. The pay rate may differ depending on your skills, education, experience, and other qualifications.

Featured Benefits: Medical Insurance in compliance with the ACA. 401(k). Sick leave in compliance with applicable state, federal, and local laws.

Responsibilities:

• The ideal candidate for this role will enjoy working in a fast-paced environment with high expectations, diverse assignments, and collaborating with internal and external customers.
• In this role you will design industrial tools, dies, gauges, drill & assembly jigs, fixtures, machine attachments and equipment, required for assembly, composite production or experimental use, considering such factors as accessibility, economy, mobility, and performance requirements.
• This role works closely with manufacturing, operations, vendors, and cross-functional engineering teams to ensure tooling meets quality, cost, schedule, and safety requirements.
• The candidate shall have the ability to work autonomously and in a team environment, adapt to processes and company policy while providing input or methods of process/design innovation.

Key Responsibilities:

• - Develop tooling concepts and support equipment for new and existing programs
• - Design tooling and equipment, including engineering drawings, inspection requirements, and verification plans
• - Review designs for manufacturability, fit, form, and function
• - Identify and mitigate safety risks in accordance with company and state/government standards
• - Make layouts of complex assemblies and details parts of structures
• - Develops basic data and makes preliminary layouts, sketches, and notes necessary to present design proposal.
• - Interface with internal customers and design review teams to ensure requirements are met
• - Coordinates with manufacturing, operations, and process engineering to support program quality, delivery, and cost objectives
• - Manage tooling projects, including cost, schedule, procurement, and fabrication
• - Checks completed layouts and drawings for clarity, completeness, conformity to standards, procedures, specifications, and accuracy of calculations and dimensioning.
• - Identifies design errors, omissions, and other deficiencies, and recommends revisions and/or improvements in design layout to responsible engineers or designers.
• - Support vendors during fabrication and inspect fabricated tooling for drawing compliance
• - Support continuous improvement initiatives and proactive problem-solving Safety, Process, and Compliance
• - Support investigations related to root cause analysis, non-conformances, and process failures

Basic Qualifications:

• - Experience with industry standard design tools including NX CAD & CATIA
• - Knowledge of manufacturing, fabrication processes & machine shop practices
• - Experience with drawing release criteria and related documents for:

         - Completeness, clarity, and dimensional accuracy

         - Correctness of materials and processes

         - Conformity to design/drafting standards (e.g. GD&T), design specifications, and practicability;

         - Economy of fabrication, assembly, and installation.

• - Knowledge and application of GD&T (ASME Y14.5-2018)
• - Knowledge and application of drawing weld symbols
• - Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• - Strong organizational skills in managing time, projects, and resources
• - Technical attention to detail
• - Bachelor’s Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline

Preferred Qualifications:

• - Experience in an aerospace manufacturing environment
• - Experience in engineering, design, and fabrication of special tooling and support equipment
• - Experience in design, fabrication and implementation of tooling used in the manufacture of composite parts
• - Ability to evaluate vendor capabilities for tooling and aerospace part production
• - Experience participating in developments project, establishing tooling SOW & design estimates.
• - Experience with Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) system.
• - Excellent organizational and project management skills
• - Experience with stress analysis of simple to complex problems via hand calculations and FEMAP/NASTRAN
• - Professional Engineering License