Tooling Engineer, Aerospace

PPG Industries•Huntsville, AL

3d•Onsite

About The Position

PPG's Aerospace Business is seeking a Tooling Engineer to work onsite in Huntsville, Alabama. The role plans, organizes, and manages tooling projects of varying complexity to meet plant needs, supports the tool-up of new programs, and collaborates across departments with Program Managers, Engineers, and the tool shop. The position reports to the Tooling, Facilities, and Maintenance Manager. The Tooling Engineer establishes program tooling requirements, estimates costs and schedules, coordinates resources, and oversees fabrication and outsourced work. The role designs and documents tooling, supports manufacturing process improvements, manages the digitization and control of legacy program documentation, and uses additive manufacturing for rapid prototyping and production tooling solutions.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Engineering.
At least 4 years of work or project experience designing and constructing tooling fixtures for manufacturing, assembly, and testing.
Prior mechanical design experience using 2D and 3D CAD tools.
Prior experience in an industrial manufacturing environment.
Knowledge of common manufacturing processes and machines, including mills, lathes, assembly, and inspection.
Understanding of common manufacturing materials, GD&T, and tolerance stack-up.
Must be a U.S. citizen, Green Card holder, political asylee, or refugee.

Nice To Haves

Mechanical Engineering or a similar technical discipline.
Solidworks experience.
Aerospace experience.

Responsibilities

Establish tooling requirements for programs, including cost estimates and schedules, and identify in-house and outsourced resources needed to meet tooling requirements and schedules.
Coordinate with Project Managers, Design Engineers, and Production Engineers on tooling for ongoing and future projects and manufacturing process improvements.
Collaborate with the Tooling Shop to define tooling fabrication requirements and ensure materials and documentation are ready when projects begin.
Transition legacy program documentation into digital formats and improve documentation control using Solidworks PDM.
Coordinate outsourced work with Sourcing and vendors, provide technical expertise, and manage vendor delivery of tooling projects on time and within budget.
Design master, gage, and process tooling to meet quality and product definition requirements.
Generate 2D and 3D CAD models and detailed drawings to ASME standards.
Explore and introduce tool design and fabrication methods to improve time, cost, and quality.
Implement tooling solutions that improve production-process ergonomics and first-time yield.
Use additive manufacturing for rapid prototyping and to streamline point-of-use and process tooling.