Application Tooling Engineer

Amphenol Communications Solutions; Nashua (NH); On-site; USD 85,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

Amphenol Communications Solutions (ACS) seeks an Application Tooling Engineer to join our Nashua, NH team. You will develop tooling for new and existing products, coordinate design, validation, and documentation, and work with suppliers to deploy high‑volume automation.

You will leverage Creo/SolidWorks, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint to create and manage tooling concepts, BOMs, and project status updates, collaborating with product teams and customers to meet performance targets.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering is required.
• Proficiency with Creo and SolidWorks for tooling design and development.
• Experience with Excel/Word/PowerPoint for documentation and analysis.
• Ability to read, analyze and interpret technical drawings and procedures.
• Effective communication with technical and non‑technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Develop and document application tooling for new and existing products, including concepts, estimating, quoting, design/build and validation of tooling.
• Develop and document assembly processes, spare parts lists, and preventive maintenance.
• Define process steps and sequence of operations for tooling projects.
• Collaborate with product development to explore enabling technologies.
• Define supply chain parameters for customer applications and ensure documentation accuracy.

Skills

Team collaboration

Technical communication

Ability to read technical drawings

Troubleshooting equipment

Education

Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering

Tools

Creo

SolidWorks

Excel

Word

PowerPoint

Job description

Amphenol Communications Solutions (ACS), a division of Amphenol Corporation, is a world leader in interconnect solutions for Communications, Mobile, RF, Optics, and Commercial electronics markets. Amphenol Corporation is one of the world’s largest designers and manufacturers of electrical, electronic and fiber optic connectors and interconnect systems, antennas, sensors and sensor-based products and coaxial and high-speed specialty cable. ACS has an expansive global presence in research and development, manufacturing, and sales. We design and manufacture a wide range of innovative connectors as well as cable assemblies for diverse applications including server, storage, data center, mobile, RF, networking, industrial, business equipment, and automotive.

Position: Application Tooling Engineer

Location: Nashua, NH

Amphenol High Speed Products Group is the market leader for high speed, high bandwidth electrical connectors for the Telecom/Datacom market (Mobile Networks, Storage, Servers, Routers, Switches, etc.). Our products help to enable the electronics revolution and remain a key enabler for all the major Tier 1 OEMs globally. Our global headquarters are in Nashua, NH and we have design, sales, and manufacturing locations globally. We are currently seeking a Tooling Engineer to join our team. The position will be in Nashua, NH. The Tooling Engineer will be an integral part of a team responsible for new product development. The Tooling Engineer will work closely with internal and external suppliers and manufacturers, supporting the development, fabrication and building of prototypes, pilot production and deployment of high-volume factory automation.

Responsibilities

• Develop and document application tooling for new / existing products. Involves creating concepts, estimating, quoting, design build and validation of tooling.
• Develop and document assembly processes, spare parts lists, and preventative maintenance.
• Define the process steps and sequence of operations.
• Work with the product development team to explore and develop enabling technologies.
• Work with project team to define the supply chain for customer application.
• Collaborate with team on Product/Process DFMs, FMEAs and risk assessment activities.
• Work with the product development team to define critical product/process parameters relating to product documentation (nominals and tolerances) and how they are related to process functions.
• Evaluate Safety and Occupational health summary for processes.
• Propose and implement cost reduction activities for mature application tooling and processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering
• Should have knowledge and skills using:
  • Proficient with solid modeling tools, (Creo, SolidWorks, etc.)
  • Spreadsheet software (Excel)
  • Word Processing software (Word)
  • Presentation software (PowerPoint)
  • Ability to communicate with technical & non-technical people
• Basic Knowledge with the following processes is a plus:
  • Project Management Experience
  • Fabrication of small tooling
  • Small component handling and assembly
  • New product development
• Ability to work in team environment
• Ability to work in a dynamic, fast-paced work environment
• Ability to read, analyze and interpret technical drawings
• Ability to read, analyze and interpret technical procedures, draft reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions.
• Ability to troubleshoot equipment.
• Demonstrated ability to operate with minimal supervision and provide updates on project status where issues or problems can be reviewed, discussed, and resolved.

Amphenol Corporation is proud of our reputation as an excellent employer. Our focus is to provide the highest level of support and responsiveness to both our employees and our customers, the world's largest technology companies. Amphenol Corporation offers the opportunity for career growth within a global organization. We believe that Amphenol Corporation is unique in that every employee, regardless of his or her position, has the ability to positively impact the business.

Amphenol is an “Equal Opportunity Employer” - Minority/Female/Disabled/Veteran/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin. For additional company information please visit our website at https://www.amphenol-cs.com/