Specialist, Stress, Tools & Design Engineer

The Tool Stress Engineer classifications work with the Tooling Design and Fabrication team in developing and designing a variety of tools and equipment required to support manufacturing, quality and test operations. This position evaluates and structurally analyzes tools during all phases of tool design, from initial concepts to preliminary design models and drawings, to final drawing release, through tool fabrication and into tool usage.

This position ensures that tools meet all relevant structural requirements, in accordance with their proposed usage, prior to tool fabrication. This position also structurally analyzes design changes and modifications, and address' issues during tool usage when they arise.

• Performs work of moderate scope and relatively few complex features and which involves conventional types of studies, investigations, structures or equipment.
• Evaluates, selects and applies engineering techniques, procedures and criterion making tooling adaptations and modifications applying experience and judgement.
• May make presentations to small audiences.
• Selects applicable analytical data from previous tools, determines the technical principles involved, mathematically defines the problem and computes the engineering characteristics consistent with the specifications, design needs, and requirements of other portions of the tool and the products with which the tool interfaces.
• Provides imaginative, thorough, and practical solutions to a wide range of technical problems involving the conventional utilization of tool engineering techniques.
• Conceives and plans projects involving the development of new methods to attain objectives.
• Performs complex stress analyses and advises on structural requirements, machine suitability and method of fabrication.=
• Works on assignments requiring broad knowledge of precedents within the Tooling discipline and in-depth knowledge of principles and practices of related specialties within the industry.
• May participate in Tooling Design and Fabrication Team proposals describing analytical requirements, past successful experience, proposed design approach and rationale with estimated cost and schedule to perform.
• Provides guidance to less senior engineers and support personnel as required and may act as lead on a project.
• Participates in periodic proof testing to verify tooling meets required safety factor.
• Ability to develop new or non-standard testing methods as required to demonstrate capability of complex tooling designs.
• Ability to obtain a US secruity clearance.

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 4 years of prior relevant engineering experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related engineering experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior related engineering experience.

• Pertinent codes, rules and regulations related to area of tooling engineering assignment.
• Use of analytical, design or process procedures pertinent to the field of engineering.
• Engineering theory and practice relating to design and structural evaluation of devices or systems.
• Design or process procedures in the field of general engineering.
• Strength of Materials, Statics, Dynamics, Finite Element Modeling and Statistical methods.
• Basic chemical principles.
• Engineering test equipment, Computer Aided Design (CAD), Computer-Aided Manufacture (CAM) methods, analytical software (ANSYS), and associated computer systems.
• Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) and tolerance stack…