Onsite Tooling Lead — Customer Ops & CI

Safran Engineering Services UK Limited; Pitstone; On-site; GBP 111,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

Safran Engineering Services UK Limited is seeking a hands-on onsite technical lead for tooling engineering to drive day-to-day customer engagement, governance, and continuous improvement. You will coordinate offshore and remote resources to ensure efficient tooling support across aerospace manufacturing environments.

The role focuses on leading tooling design and maintenance, NPI support, and driving standardisation, with a strong emphasis on customer relationships and engineering excellence.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years tooling engineering experience.
• Aerospace, automotive or complex manufacturing background.
• Experience supporting production environments.

Responsibilities

• Act as primary onsite representative for tooling engineering activities.
• Lead design, modification and maintenance of production tooling.
• Coordinate activities across onsite and offshore engineering teams.
• Identify tooling cost reduction opportunities and improve lead times.
• Establish tooling design standards and knowledge repositories.

Skills

Tooling design

Manufacturing engineering

CAD experience

Problem solving

Change management

Job description

Safran Engineering Services UK Limited is seeking a hands-on onsite technical lead for tooling engineering to drive day-to-day customer engagement, governance, and continuous improvement. You will coordinate offshore and remote resources to ensure efficient tooling support across aerospace manufacturing environments.

The role focuses on leading tooling design and maintenance, NPI support, and driving standardisation, with a strong emphasis on customer relationships and engineering excellence.