Tooling Design Engineer

Consilium Recruit are proudly supporting an academic and industry collaboration, equipped with state-of-the-art equipment for investment casting, machining, and advanced metrology of single crystal components.

They are seeking a Manufacturing Engineer (Tooling Design) to contribute to research and project delivery in manufacturing technologies. With a focus on CAD/CAM tooling modelling processes.

Salary:  £45,000 - £57,000 p.a. + Excellent Benefits including Pension and Private Health Care + Flexible Working

Location: Coventry / Hybrid 

Job Title: Manufacturing Engineering – Tooling Design

Type: Permanent

The Role:

• Work with the design and manufacturing leads to ensure that details for the relevant tooling, fixture and modelling challenges are captured.
• Work with the Specialists, Plant CA teams and toolmakers to co-ordinate, manage and help execute modelling activity that allows concepts and hardware for tooling (and their ancillaries) to be delivered on time that addresses the technology challenges.
• To ensure that research work is undertaken to meet or exceed the customers’ quality expectations and within the budgets and timescales allocated to each project.
• Prepare material to support Capability Acquisition Reviews (CAR), Manufacturing Capability Readiness Level (MCRL) packs and technology updates aligned to the HP components.
• Support & build up the tooling design capability for small, complex parts exhibiting novel features.

The Person:

Essential:

• A degree or equivalent in an engineering, science and/ or materials discipline
• Knowledge and experience in CAD/CAM Tooling modelling processes
• A good exposure to the industrial environment would be beneficial with an ability to pragmatically facilitate solution implementation.
• Demonstrate a level of autonomy with supervision required in more complex projects
• Strong stakeholder management skills and able to articulate themselves confidently
• Design for manufacture and assembly of tools and fixtures for investment casting and CNC machining processes

Desirable:

• Experience working in research environments
• Be able to liaise with supply chain network for non-conventional machining activity.
• Proficiency to write optimisation algorithms using linear algebra and transformation matrices

To apply for the Manufacturing Engineer (Tooling Design) please forward an up-to-date copy of your CV to Matthew Fielding.