Job summary

We are seeking 2 new Tool Makers to join our ME team, specialising in Tooling for the manufacture of composite parts.

Key skills required for this role

Tooling

Important

Hands on toolmaking experience

Job description

In this role, you will join a team of 7 Tooling Engineers who develop, maintain and control the deployed tooling suite and who provide a trouble-shooting service in support of our manufacturing processes.
In this Associate ME role, we will support you to deepen and build upon your knowledge of Tooling solutions so that you can become a Manufacturing Engineer - if that's what you want to do.
Our team work a 'Double Days' shift pattern which means you work 6am-2pm one week and 2pm-10pm the next week on a 2-week rotating pattern. Monday - Friday. 22% shift premium on top of base salary applies to this shift.

How You'll Contribute
In this role, you will:

• Be responsible for the development of the deployed tooling suite, this comprises of mandrels, mould tools, machining fixtures, major assembly jigs and cell specific tooling.
• Provide a trouble shooting service to operations ensuring prompt resolution of issues
• Create a tool preventative maintenance plan (TPM) for the deployed tooling suite, based on data analysis and the engineering requirements.
• Support manufacturing trials in the introduction of production improvements and modification changes.
• Produce project plans to manage small-scale projects in support of the overall plan and create relevant key performance indicators (KPI's).
• Provide technical support to the Manufacture Engineering and Quality team in product development, first article process, modifications and build process amendments.

What You'll Bring
To help us make a difference, you'll bring your passion and expertise/talent for what you do along with the following skills, experience, qualifications and attributes:
Essential:

• You will have some hands-on experience in the development of Tooling solutions within a composite manufacturing arena; ideally this will include tools such as mandrels, mould tools, machining fixtures, major assembly jigs

Desirable:

• Working knowledge of CATIA
• Experience within the aerospace arena

In addition, you will have:

• Good communication skills and an understanding of why they are important
• Experience in identifying opportunities to improve performance
• Experience in the logical analysis and solving of problems