Fixture Tool Design Engineer III - 1st Shift

We’re more than aviation experts, we’re pioneers. We challenge what’s possible. From breaking the sound barrier to advanced tiltrotor systems. Today, Bell is shaping the future of aviation through specialized engineering. And we want you.

We are developing the future of Army Aviation with the Bell Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) part of the US Army’s Future Vertical Lift (FVL) modernization effort. We are also developing the Bell 525 Relentless and Bell's High-Speed Vertical Take-Off and Landing (HSVTOL) program, a next generation stop-fold tilt-rotor. This position is onsite in Fort Worth.

Job Responsibilities:

• Serve as a highly skilled Tool Designer tactically developing and designing, developing, changing, and maintaining Tool Designs for all Master Tools and Gages, and Production Tools, Dies, Fixtures used to manufacture , machine, assemble, and install components in accordance with management strategies and concepts, program, departmental, and project policies, departmental and Bell Process Framework, through use a various systems including but not limited to ENOVIA, SAP, CATIA, and supporting hardware. This position may support Bill of Material process management as it pertains to Tool Fabrication, Revisions, Repair and Maintenance.
  
  

What you'll be doing as a Fixture Tool Design Engineer Class III

• Ability to interrogated, analyze, comprehend, and interpret various Engineering Drawings, Models, Bills of Materials, Technical Specifications, Quality Documents, Bell Process Framework, and Departmental procedures as necessary to perform assigned Tool Design work.
• Ability to determine, concept, and design all Tooling requirements associated with machining, manufacturing, bonding, assembling, and installing engineering requirements necessary to manufacture and assemble assigned work in accordance with Manufacturing Engineering Project Policies, Program Policies, Program Tool Plans, General Tooling Document, and Bell Process Framework.
• Ability to provide Tool Design support daily to Tool Fabrication during construction, revision, repair, and maintenance of all types of Tooling requirements.
• Ability to validate that Tool Design work performed by peers and or lower Tool Design classifications conforms to Bell Process Framework and departmental procedures, and various policies.
• Ability to work within and Integrated Product Team or Manufacturing Build Team environment and work with multiple peer disciplines including Design Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering Project Engineers, Process Engineers, Quality Engineering, Process Planning, N.C. Programming, Tool Fabrication, Production Control and Logistics, Supervision, and others.
• Skilled in CATIA, and GD&T concepts.
• Ability to assign and track work under guidance of Tool Design leaders and able to produce and provide training to lower classification as assigned by management.
• Ability to coordinate and guide external Tool Design activity as determined by management and or departmental policy.
• Ability to perform assigned work within historical average cost and schedule parameters.
  
  

Will be required to train employees in lower classed Tool Design classifications

What you need to be successful.

• Two years of college, trade school, military training with emphasis on Technical subject such as Engineering, Science, Mathematics, or CAD/ CAM systems, Aircraft Repair and Maintenance.
  
  

or

• Five or more years as a Tool Designer Class II
  
  

Experience & Education Required:

• Two (2) years of college, trade school, military training with emphasis on Technical subject such as Engineering, Science, Mathematics, or CAD/ CAM systems, Aircraft Repair and Maintenance.
  
  

Don’t miss the chance to join a diverse, inclusive environment that embodies one of our core values, Lift Each Other Up. As a member of our global workforce, you will collaborate with dedicated, enthusiastic teams where differences in experiences, backgrounds and ideas combined with a strong passion for our products take us above and beyond flight.

Textron is committed to providing Equal Opportunity in Employment, to all applicants and employees regardless of race, color, religion, age, national origin, military status, veteran status, disability, sex (including pregnancy and sexual orientation), genetic information or any other characteristic protected by law.

Recruiting Company

Bell Textron Inc.

Primary Location

US-Texas-Fort Worth

Job Field

Manufacturing

Schedule

Full-time

Job Level

Individual Contributor

Job Type

Standard

Shift

First Shift

Worksite

Onsite

Job Posting

02/09/2026, 9:16:47 AM