Manufacturing Engineer (Tooling), Western Approach site, Bristol

The Opportunity

GKN Aerospace, Western Approach is an International Centre Of Excellence in composite wing structure design and production. We manufacture composite wing spars and Fixed Trailing Edge assemblies for the A350XWB and A400M aircraft. We are seeking a new Manufacturing Engineer (ME) Tooling to join our 45-strong ME team, specialising in Tooling for the manufacture of composite parts. In this role, you will join a team of 7 Tooling Engineers who develop, maintain and control the deployed tooling suite and who provide a trouble-shooting service in support of our manufacturing processes.

In this role, you will be responsible for tool design, manufacturing and commissioning in the introduction of engineering changes and improvements to a suite of tooling that contains mould tools, mandrels, machining fixtures and major assembly jigs.

How You'll Contrinute

In this role, you will:

o    Be responsible for the implementation of tooling, from original concept through to production. 
o    Design tooling for a high degree of process capability utilizing the GKN standard Zero Defect Manufacturing (ZDM) tool suite to demonstrate as such.
o    To be fully conversant with Catia V5 system and be able to interrogate data from customers and suppliers
o    Maintains the tooling BOM and configuration of the tooling suite
o    Responsible for the creation of tool user guides, commissioning and handover to the operations team.
o    Applies the relevant health and safety regulations
o    Provide estimates for tooling options and tooling quote ratification
o    Ensure metrology plans are in place for new and current product introduction.

What You'll Bring

To help us make a difference, you’ll bring your passion and expertise/ talent for what you do along with the following skills, experience, qualifications and attributes:

Essential

• Technical expertise in Tool Engineering, with a qualification / background (HNC and above) and/or approximately 3 to 5 years' experience in engineering (Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical); ideally, this will include tools such as mould tools, mandrels, machining fixtures and major assembly jigs.
• Experience being a technical representative, representing the business at a customer / supplier meetings

Desirable
•    Working knowledge of CATIA
•    Experience within an aerospace arena

In addition, you will have:
•    Good communication skills and an understanding of why they are important
•    Experience in identifying opportunities to improve performance
•    Experience in the logical analysis and solving of problems
 

What We'll Provide

Once you’re on board you’ll get the following perks and benefits:

• Starting salary of circa. £38,000
• Industry Leading Pension Scheme = we’ll match your contributions up to 8% on a 1 : 1.5 basis
• Life Assurance 8 x salary
• 25 days' holiday + bank holidays
• Income protection
• Shopping discounts
• Cycle To Work Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• A collaborative, dynamic working environment