Senior Mechanical Design Engineer – Tooling (SC Cleared)

Mane Contract Services; Ampthill; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Mane Contract Services is seeking a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer to join the Operations Engineering team in Ampthill. You will own tooling design across the product lifecycle, from prototype development through to production and ongoing product support.

You’ll design tooling such as jigs, fixtures, gauges, dies and machine attachments, collaborating with teams across the business to improve manufacturing quality, increase yield and reduce costs.

Qualifications

• Mechanical design and manufacturing process experience.
• CAD experience, ideally with Creo, and the ability to produce technical drawings.
• An understanding of GD&T, including key characteristics and datum structures.
• Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma and quality tools.
• Awareness of DFM/A and PFMEA principles.
• Experience preparing operational documentation and manufacturing data packs.

Responsibilities

• Develop tooling for assembly, integration and test, machining, composite layup and additive manufacturing.
• Create technical requirement specifications, process instructions, manufacturing bills of materials and routings.
• Support production and programme delivery, including capital equipment requirements from definition through to acceptance.
• Work closely with Industrial Engineering, Production Engineering and other teams.
• Contribute to customer and programme meetings, process reviews and updates to engineering documentation.
• Promote right-first-time quality and practical continuous improvement.

Skills

Mechanical design

Manufacturing processes

CAD

GD&T

Lean Six Sigma

PFMEA

Documentation

Tools

Creo

Job description

Mane Contract Services is seeking a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer to join the Operations Engineering team in Ampthill. You will own tooling design across the product lifecycle, from prototype development through to production and ongoing product support.

You’ll design tooling such as jigs, fixtures, gauges, dies and machine attachments, collaborating with teams across the business to improve manufacturing quality, increase yield and reduce costs.