Tooling Design Engineer

Morson are currently supporting one of our Aerospace suppliers for a Tooling Design Engineer vacancy based in Burnley. You will be responsible for supporting the cradle to grave tooling engineering process, across established production lines. You will communicate with Manufacturing Engineers to investigate requests, create concepts and create RFQ’s with suppliers to develop relevant tools. Due to the nature of the work we’re looking for an experienced Tooling Engineer that has worked within Aerospace, Defence, Automotive, Nuclear or similar high level engineering industry.

We’re offering this role on a 12-month contract basis, due to increased long-term demand, with the possibility of a further extension. The role will require 5 days on site, with flexible start and finish times offered across the course of a 37-hour week. We can offer this role at a rate of £35 per hour Umbrella inside IR35.

Responsibilities:

Create industrialised tooling solutions for the various needs of assembly and sheet metal manufacturing.
Design and refine the tooling concepts to enable manufacture through the external supplier network.
Advise external tooling manufacturers on technical requirements to facilitate production.
Ensure tooling meets expectations of cost, quality and function.
Provide technical support to internal toolmakers for modifications of existing hardware.
Work with internal and external stakeholders to ensure that all requirements are fulfilled.
Support requests for internal investment via the creation of capital expenditure justification
Identify & escalate any risks or concerns in relation to product or people safety
Experience:

5 years’ experience within Tooling design.
Experience using Catia within a production environment.
Knowledge of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T)
Experience working within Aerospace, Automotive, Nuclear or similar vehicle production industry.
Solid understanding of mechanical design principles.
Ability to investigate tooling requests, create concepts and Request for Quote.
Experience of producing designs for external tooling suppliers to produce.
Desirable Experience

Experience of tooling within assembly, sheet metal or composites.
Experience of managing external tooling suppliers to cost, quality and function.
Experience of advising on tooling modification.
Educated to degree-level within an appropriate engineering subject.
Recognising the RESTRICTED nature of the work, suitable candidates will be BPSS cleared or eligible for this level of clearance before starting on site