Tooling Engineer

Job Summary

Senior Design Engineer must be able to support a wide range of technical projects with minimal guidance in the following areas of expertise: transparencies, composites, composite tooling, missile systems, fixed wing and empennage structure. Proven prior experience in one or more of these fields is strongly preferred. The ability to obtain a US Government secret clearance is preferred. Senior Design Engineer will be providing technical support to develop, integrate, implement, and verify technical solutions and compliance documentation compliant with all relevant customer, regulatory, and airworthiness requirements, within agreed program, schedule, and manufacturing constraints.

Senior Design Engineer reports hierarchically and functionally to the CoC Manager and operationally to the Chief Engineer or Engineering Team Lead (of the same Program). In case no Chief Engineer or Engineering Team Lead is deployed to the project or program, the Senior Design Engineer will report operationally to the Program Manager.

• Develop, implement, check/approve technical solutions and compliance documentation for work packages to ensure they are compliant with all relevant customer, regulatory, and airworthiness requirements, within agreed program, schedule, and manufacturing constraints.
• Assist Team Lead or Chief Engineer in the execution of the Engineering Deliverables meeting the applicable Technical Requirements (including Manufacturability, Certification / Qualification Requirements) against agreed Schedule and Cost Objectives.
• Identify, analyze, and resolve technical problems and apply/integrate solutions.
• Role will utilize a diverse range in skill, knowledge, and expertise potentially across a broad range of metallic or composite structures.
• Develop, execute, and/or verify methods of plans, toolsets and approaches that are appropriate and compliant to achieve the design and program objectives.
• Analyze customer requirements and define the associated technical solutions as input for bids and proposals within assigned programs/projects. Check/Approve Preliminary Means of Compliance to the customer requirements.
• Identify and assess technical risk and propose mitigations relevant to the work package within assigned programs/projects.
• Develop and check design complies to the cost and manufacturing requirements using appropriate techniques for design such as Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA) and design to cost.
• Help recognize and evaluate potential systems, products, and process failures utilizing Design Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (DFMEA).
• Create and check design definitions of a work package, including integration, interfaces, dimensions, materials, parts, manufacturing process requirements, assemblies, and tolerances which are compliant to all design requirements and objectives.
• General or review, and sign as appropriate the assigned project deliverables, documents, and reports as required within limits of signature authorizations.
• Mentor and development of engineers within assigned programs.
• Support with the creation and delivery of training material and initiatives relevant to a work package or program.
• Support, create and participate in technical and customer reviews, including formal gate reviews, including the creation and preparation of technical data and presentations of a work package.

• Process and verify documentation such as concessions and non-conformances, and provide technical support by implementing solutions to address non-conforming products, designs, and compliance documentation.
• Perform all activities at a level of minimal supervision and guide other engineers within the work package required.
• Identify improvements and check and/or approve work instructions, procedures, technical manuals, and guidelines.
• Support operations and support manufacturing engineering team in translation of the product design and manufacturing requirements of a work package in a manufacturing design during prototype build and serial manufacturing, where applicable.
• Support the qualification process of products within a work package, and prepare and/or…