Manufacturing Tooling Engineer

Deploy•Birmingham, AL

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Deploy's client designs, manufactures, and constructs buildings and their components, including steel structural frames, headwalls, surgery ceilings, MEP racks, Central Energy Plants, exam rooms, bathrooms, and whole building modules. The company operates twelve production lines across five programs with more than 800 teammates. Tooling is used throughout production, from parts and subassemblies to modules, and this newly created role will own the company's tooling work. The Manufacturing Tooling Engineer takes tooling projects from design through production-floor implementation. Working with manufacturing process engineering and product design, the engineer determines how parts should be held and located, models fixtures, performs tolerance stack-ups, arranges fabrication internally or through vendors, and supports first production runs. The engineer also responds to tooling issues affecting line speed or part quality, supports tooling for both existing and future lines, and maintains tooling drawings, bills of material, revision control, asset records, and calibration and repair schedules in coordination with Maintenance. The role begins with a project brief owned by the General Manager or Chief Launch Engineer, who prioritizes competing requests. The engineer refines the brief into a problem statement and proposed solution, presents it for internal review, iterates, and builds. The position has a dedicated fabricator to start, and the engineer manages a budget for each internal tooling project. The role does not own product design, the production schedule, or Maintenance, but influences all three. It reports to the Manager of Manufacturing Engineering and is onsite in Birmingham, Alabama, with occasional travel to vendors and job sites. Relocation assistance is available.

Requirements

Five or more years designing and building jigs, fixtures, or production tooling in a manufacturing environment.
Fluency with tooling design software such as SolidWorks, Inventor, or similar, and with Revit for the building model.
Working knowledge of GD&T and tolerance stack-up applied to real parts.
Hands-on fabrication experience, including welding, metal fabrication, and basic machining.
Ability to manage outside vendors on cost, lead time, and quality.
Ability to explain the rationale for fixture design choices and alternatives rejected.

Nice To Haves

A mechanical engineering degree is helpful but not required.

Responsibilities

Determine how parts should be held and located in production tooling, collaborating with manufacturing process engineering and product design.
Design and model jigs, fixtures, and other tooling using tooling design software and Revit for the building model.
Perform tolerance stack-ups and verify that tolerances close.
Arrange tooling fabrication in the company's shop or through managed outside vendors.
Support tooling installation and first-part production runs on the floor.
Respond promptly to fixtures that slow production lines or result in incorrect parts.
Develop and prove tooling for both existing production lines and lines that have not yet launched.
Maintain tooling drawings, bills of material, revision control, and asset records.
Coordinate calibration and repair schedules with the Maintenance group.
Refine project briefs into problem statements and proposed solutions, present them for internal review, iterate, and build.
Manage the budget for each internal tooling project and a dedicated fabricator.
Influence product design, production scheduling, and Maintenance without owning those functions.
Manage outside vendors with respect to cost, lead time, and quality.