Location: Bedfordshire
Salary: Up to £55,000 P.A. Dependent on experience (overtime, 4 day working week)
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Tooling Design Engineer to join a global industry leader in the defence sector, where you will be responsible for developing manufacturing tooling for a special project team.
There are excellent career opportunities, further development, and the opportunity to be involved in some very exciting and challenging projects.
- Duties include but not limited to:
- Develop manufacturing tooling within any of the following technologies;
- o NC Machining
- o Composite layup
- Designing any new tooling & fixturing requirements.
- Creation of Technical Requirement Specifications.
- Creation of detailed process instructions.
- Creation of Manufacturing BOM’s / routings to aid ease of manufacture.
- Active involvement in the Level 1 & 2 MDWT (Mission Directed Work Team) meetings.
- Assist with the Technical requirements of the relevant section of the Capital plan from definition to acceptance.
- Supporting full rate production of a range of products aligned to the LMUK Ampthill Business requirements.
- Close liaison of activities with Industrial Engineering, Production Engineering and other functions as necessary.
- Support with the business process reviews and generation / update of relevant documentation.
Skills Required:
- A background in tooling design and experience gained from within a manufacturing environment.
- Knowledge of Machining and Manufacturing technologies.
- Good communication skills that can sell and influence a range of audiences internally and externally with the ability to work with all levels of the business.
- An independent thinker, able to take an assertive stance to enforce the key requirements of quality and the customer.
- Experience with the use of CAD software (CREO) to generate technical drawings
- An understanding of GD&T (Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerances) with the ability to identify key characteristics and datum structures and apply GD&T.
- Demonstrate a level of design and manufacturing process industry experience with CNC machining and/ or composite layup
- Experience of preparing operational documentation and manufacturing data-packs.
- Experience of driving change in process, behaviour and culture.
- Awareness of DFM/A and PFMEA principles and the use of them in a practical application to support Industrial Engineering activity.
- Strong analytical skills.
- Knowledge of, Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma methodology, Quality toolset experience.
- Key competences: Personal accountability, building relationships, planning for results, customer first, adaptability.
You will need to be able and willing to gain (UK Eyes only) security clearance for this role.
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