Tool Designer

What You Will Do:

Design

• Design, development, and qualification of fixtures and gages for turbine blades, vanes and other components
• Design and develop tooling that improves capability and throughput of the production process.
• Design and development of tooling for machining processes
• Design and development of custom gages for inspection processes
• Lead the fixture and gage manufacture; collaborating with suppliers (internal and external), management, purchasing, and logistics to obtain quotations and realize the repair of fixtures and gages
• Develop work instructions, procedures, key cards, and related engineering documentation for fixture and gage design and build.
• Develop work instructions, procedures, key cards, and related manufacturing documentation for fixture and gage use.
• Apply the standardized approached to tool and fixture designs in a Siemens NX and Teamcenter environment.
• Collaborate with WSC manufacturing engineer(s) and production to ensure tooling is designed to meet their performance expectations
• Collaborate with WSC production and quality to ensure tooling is provisioned and repaired to meet production needs
• Project leadership of tooling engineering projects (scheduling, experimentation, reporting, documentation) with full responsibility for due dates, results and costs associated with your field of activities
• Lead tooling projects through all phases, conception, R&D, qualification, production implementation, and continued production support
• Lead continuous process improvements (analysis, solution finding, implementation) around tool design and use processes and methods
• Work with production personnel to implement, troubleshoot, and improve fixtures and gages and their associated processes
• Collaborate with management, product engineering, peer engineers, and operators to realize high quality, stable processes. Provide data and documentation for product process qualifications (PPQ), work instructions and manufacturing quality control plans.
• Inspection
• Collaborate with manufacturing engineers and quality to identify effective critical to quality inspection requirements to support effective inspections both manual and/or CMM
• Development of inspection plans for validating fixtures including CTQ drawings
• Collaborate with Quality to repair fixtures and gages that are identified as non-conforming during validation
• Repair
• Analyze inspection data for reported out of tolerance or worn conditions
• Develop and execute necessary repair actions with Siemens tool room and/or external suppliers.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure repairs completed and accepted by stakeholders, production, engineering, and quality
• Lead the fixture and gage repair logistics; collaborating with suppliers (internal and external), management, purchasing, and logistics to obtain quotations and realize the repair of fixtures and gages

What You Will Bring:

• 2-4 year degree in mechanical, manufacturing engineering or 4 years relevant and proven manufacturing technician/engineering experience.
• 4 years of experience in tooling engineering (preferably in a production environment)
• Skilled in interpretation of product and manufacturing drawings and specifications
• Expert Knowledge in Siemens NX CAD/Drafting and product data management systems. NX, Siemens Teamcenter
• Expert Knowledge of GD&T
• Expert Knowledge in parametric model definition tools of NX and assembly modeling with inter-part linking
• Knowledge of Siemens Teamcenter
• Knowledge in identifying, analyzing, and correcting fixture and gage issues.
• Good knowledge of upstream and downstream processes used turbine component manufacturing is a plus.
• Working knowledge of MS office (Project, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook)    

Pay Range: $65k to $80k p.a.

Compensation decisions are made based on factors including experience, skills, education, and other job-related factors, in accordance with our internal pay structure. We also offer a comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance, paid time off, and retirement plan.

Work Requirements:

This role is considered an on-site position located in Winston Salem, NC

• You must be able to commute to and from the location with your own transportation arrangements to meet the required working hours. 
• Shop floor environment, which may include but not limited to extensive walking, and ability to lift up to 40 lbs.

Travel requirements: Due to the nature of the work, no travel is required.

Citizenship requirement: Due to the nature of the work, U.S. citizenship / US Person is required.

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Referral program
• Vision insurance

Who We Are:
Quest Global delivers world-class end-to-end engineering solutions by leveraging our deep industry knowledge and digital expertise. By bringing together technologies and industries, alongside the contributions of diverse individuals and their areas of expertise, we are able to solve problems better, faster. This multi-dimensional approach enables us to solve the most critical and large-scale challenges across the aerospace & defense, automotive, energy, hi-tech, healthcare, medical devices, rail and semiconductor industries.
We are looking for humble geniuses, who believe that engineering has the potential to make the impossible possible; innovators, who are not only inspired by technology and innovation, but also perpetually driven to design, develop, and test as a trusted partner for Fortune 500 customers. As a team of remarkably diverse engineers, we recognize that what we are really engineering is a brighter future for us all. If you want to contribute to meaningful work and be part of an organization that truly believes when you win, we all win, and when you fail, we all learn, then we’re eager to hear from you.

The achievers and courageous challenge-crushers we seek, have the following characteristics and skills: