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Tooling Design Engineer
General Summary:
- Seeking a Tooling Design Engineer who’s passionate about precision, creativity, and collaboration to help design the tools that bring company aircraft to life. As a Tooling Design Engineer, you’ll be at the heart of our production process, designing and developing tooling solutions that meet rigorous engineering and manufacturing standards. You’ll collaborate across departments and with external suppliers to ensure every tool is optimized for performance, safety, and efficiency. The perspective candidate should be an experienced professional with knowledge of engineering principles, aircraft tooling, aircraft manufacturing processes and ASME Y14.5 Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Review tooling requests, engineering models, and drawings to develop new or modified tooling designs.
- Create innovative tooling concepts to support new engineering developments.
- Follows existing procedures utilizing the Honda Aircraft Company tooling manual to develop 3D models and 2D drawings to design production tooling to support program requirements.
- Develops and writes tooling usage guidelines for tooling functionality.
- Perform peer reviews and design checks to validate tooling accuracy, functionality, and compliance with standards.
- Lead internal and external design reviews to ensure compliance with engineering and manufacturing requirements.
- Recommend improvements to tooling design processes and philosophies.
Education, Work Experience, Certification and/or Licensure:
- Associates degree in technical field (Bachelor’s preferred)
- 5+ years of experience in aircraft tooling design. (Automotive equipment/tooling experience also considered)
- Proficient in Catia (V5)
- ASME GDTP (Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing Professional) Certificate preferred.
- Machining/Fabrication experience and/or CNC programing experience a plus.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Strong understanding of aircraft manufacturing processes.
- Ability to coordinate and facilitate cross-functional design reviews.
- Excellent communication and documentation skills.
- A proactive mindset with a passion for continuous improvement
- Teamcenter PLM experience a plus.
- Incumbents may be routinely exposed to equipment operational noise heat-cold-dust, and/or aircraft equipment, parts, or fuel odors.
- Incumbents may be required to stand, sit, squat, walk, bend, move, reach, or stretch for prolonged time periods with no restrictions, as required by job duties.
- Work in a safe and professional manner while adhering to all regulatory requirements (FAA, OSHA, DOT, EPA, State, and Federal regulations, etc.).
- Read, hear, speak, and see with no restrictions, as required by job duties.
- Comprehend and adhere to management directions and/or safety instructions with no restrictions.
- Effectively communicate in Business English language.
- Pull, push, carry, lift, or move items up to 25 lbs. throughout the work shift without assistance, as required by job duties.