Job Title: Tooling Engineer
Employment Type: Contract or Permanent
Salary: Dep on skills & experience
Location: West Midlands
Ref: GM/14142
This leading Automotive Tier 1 manufacturer operate on a worldwide basis and work closely with many of the large OEM's. They now urgently wish to appoint an experienced Tooling Engineer to manage tooling programmes to completion.
Responsibilities:
Coordinating Tooling Engineering resource with the Engineering Team (together with OEM and supply base as necessary) to ensure that, from inception, emerging component concepts and designs are inherently tooling / equipment / process feasible and robust, fully accommodating the principle of Design for Manufacture, both in terms of function and life cycle.
- Provide timely VFM support for negotiations with OEM so as to meet individual programme timing constraints
- Liaise with manufacturing personnel to confirm that tooling designs are sympathetic to process flow.
- Use DFMEA & PFMEA methodology in achieving optimised part and tool design
- Critically analyse robustness of supplier design and manufacturing timeline
- Closely monitor supplier’s adherence to timeline at mutually agreed intervals, with visits / utilizing photographic evidence of
progress, as appropriate to manufacturing location, reporting regularly - Attend T0, and subsequent supplier-based trials, as necessary to confirm compliance to (or satisfactory progress towards) all acceptance criteria elements of TSoW.
- Act as principal point of contact for all communications with supplier.
- Throughout the period of manufacture and introduction to plant, manage ECR’s, providing VFM support, as necessary, for purchasing initiatives.
- Provide support to Product Engineers in pursuit of tooling / secondary equipment trials, commissioning and plant sign-off, to Job 1 + 90 days, but beyond if circumstances dictate.
- Manage the completion and supply of all tool and equipment transfer documentation packs, including GAs, dimensional data, recommended spares listings, warranty compliance maintenance schedules etc
Skills & Experience:
- At least 10 years experience in a toolmaking / process / secondary equipment manufacturing environment, covering manufacturing processes routinely utilised in programmes – ie; conventional injection moulding, twin-shot, back injection, IMD, slush – PU / TPO skin etc
- At least 5 years exposure to Automotive Industry methods and approach
- A clear ability to manage DFM
- Evidence of managing time critical programme elements
- Ability to negotiate - on equal terms - with supplier representatives, regarding both technical and commercial issues
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