Senior Tooling Engineer

Milwaukee Electronics is a leading electronics manufacturing services provider with a 70‑year history of innovation and excellence. Our culture is rooted in teamwork, ownership, and a commitment to quality and operational excellence. As a Senior Tooling Development Engineer, you will own the end‑to‑end design, fabrication, and commissioning of fixtures, pallets, jigs, and custom tooling that directly improve manufacturing efficiency, quality, and capacity.

The Senior Tooling Development Engineer operates as an independent, hands‑on technical leader. Working closely with New Product Introduction (NPI), Manufacturing Engineering, Test Engineering, and Program Management teams, you will identify tooling needs, scope projects, and deliver fully fabricated solutions that meet production requirements. The role requires mechanical design in Solid Works, in‑house CNC machining, sheet‑metal fabrication, and 3D printing, with ownership extending through validation and post‑release support on the shop floor.

The position reports to the Engineering Manager.

• Serve as the senior technical voice on tooling design and fabrication, representing tooling in cross‑functional discussions with engineering, operations, quality, and program leadership.
• Own assigned tooling projects end‑to‑end—from intake and scoping through design, fabrication, commissioning, and post‑release support.
• Make final technical decisions on tooling design, weighing input from NPI, Manufacturing Engineering, Test Engineering, Program Management, and production personnel.

• Develop creative, often non‑standard mechanical solutions to ambiguous tooling and fixturing problems brought forward by NPI, Manufacturing Engineering, Test Engineering, and production teams.
• Analyze design trade‑offs across cost, manufacturability, lead time, durability, and end‑use functionality to select the right approach for each project.
• Apply first‑principles technical judgment—including material behavior, tolerance stack‑ups, mechanism design, and failure mode analysis—to tooling that must perform reliably in production.
• Design with the end user in mind, ensuring that shop floor operators and technicians find tools easier, faster, and more accurate while reducing physical and cognitive strain.
• Iterate on designs through prototyping, fitting, and field feedback to converge on robust final solutions.

• Design fixtures, pallets, jigs, and custom tooling in Solid Works to support PCB assembly, box‑build assembly, electrical and functional test, and mechanical processes across the facility.
• Translate PCBA design data (Gerber, ODB++, .tgz, .asc, .emn/.emp) into accurate 2D and 3D representations to support fixture design, using tools such as Gerb View and Solid Works.

• Collaborate closely with Test Engineering to develop test fixture mechanics, including PCBA/DUT locating features, tooling‑pin selection, pogo pin layout, single‑ or dual‑sided board access, test actuation mechanism, and enclosures for test equipment.
• Partner with NPI Engineering during new product introductions to define and deliver the tooling required to bring new processes online.
• Support Manufacturing Engineering with fixture refurbishment, modification, and updates as products evolve over their lifecycle.

• Program and operate CNC equipment to fabricate tooling components directly from CAD models, using CAM software (Solid Works CAM), manual G‑code/M‑code programming, and Haas CNC mill operation.
• Fabricate completed designs in MEC's machine shop using a full complement of manual and additive equipment—manual mill and lathe; shear and manual press brake for sheet‑metal; FDM (Bambulab) and SLA (Formlabs) 3D printers; bandsaws, drill presses, tapping machine, hydraulic knockout punches, surface grinder, and a wide range of hand tools.
• Produce one‑off mechanical components and short‑run parts for internal teams as needed, including lifetime‑buy quantities for end‑of‑life programs and supply‑chain mitigation builds.

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