Manufacturing Tooling Engineer

Blox; Bessemer, Northern (AL, KY); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Job summary

BLOX designs, manufactures, and constructs buildings across the country. This role anchors design-to-floor tooling, overseeing fixtures and jigs from concept through first parts on the line.

You will collaborate with manufacturing engineering and product design, model fixtures, and manage vendor relationships to hit cost, schedule, and quality goals. Birmingham site with relocation assistance available.

Qualifications

• Five or more years designing and building jigs, fixtures, or production tooling in a manufacturing environment.
• Fluent with tooling design software (SolidWorks, Inventor, or similar) and Revit for the building model.
• Working knowledge of GD&T and tolerance stack-up, applied to real parts.
• Hands‑on fabrication experience. Welding, metal fabrication, basic machining.
• Comfort managing outside vendors on cost, lead time, and quality.
• The judgment to explain why a fixture you built is designed the way it is, and what you rejected along the way.
• A mechanical engineering degree helps and is not required.

Responsibilities

• Lead tooling projects from brief to first parts on the floor.
• Collaborate with manufacturing engineering and product design during development.
• Manage budgets and coordinate with Maintenance on tooling assets.
• Present to internal reviews, iterate, and finalize tooling solutions.

Skills

Tooling design experience

SolidWorks

Inventor

Revit

GD&T

Welding / Fabrication

Vendor management

Education

Mechanical Engineering degree (preferred)

Tools

SolidWorks

Inventor

Revit

Job description

Description

BLOX designs, manufactures, and constructs buildings and delivers them as products across the country. We fabricate the steel for uber modules, the structural frame the DMC system is built on, and we make the hardest parts of complex buildings on our own lines: headwalls, surgery ceilings, MEP racks, Central Energy Plants, exam rooms, bathrooms, and whole building modules. Twelve production lines, five programs, more than 800 teammates. We are the OEM and our own Tier 1 and Tier 2 supplier at once: the part, the subassembly, and the module that ships all come off our lines, and your tooling has to hold at every level.

Everything we build on those lines runs on tooling. Jigs, fixtures, assembly tables, weld fixtures, and the gauges that prove the part is right. When the tooling is good, the line runs to takt and quality is built in rather than inspected in. When it is not, everything downstream pays for it. This is a new position because tooling needs an owner.

The job starts with design and ends on the floor. You work out how a part should be held and located, with manufacturing process engineering and product design still at the table, and you model the fixture that does it. You run the stack-up until the tolerances close, get it built in our own shop or at a vendor you manage, and stand at the line while the first parts come off it. When a fixture slows a line or a part comes out wrong, you are there that day. Some of that tooling serves lines already running; some is for lines that do not exist yet and must be proven before launch. You also inherit what is already on the floor: the drawings, the bills of material, the revision control, the asset records, and the calibration and repair schedules you keep with our Maintenance group.

What we are looking for

• Five or more years designing and building jigs, fixtures, or production tooling in a manufacturing environment.
• Fluent with tooling design software (SolidWorks, Inventor, or similar) and Revit for the building model.
• Working knowledge of GD&T and tolerance stack-up, applied to real parts.
• Hands‑on fabrication experience. Welding, metal fabrication, basic machining.
• Comfort managing outside vendors on cost, lead time, and quality.
• The judgment to explain why a fixture you built is designed the way it is, and what you rejected along the way.
• A mechanical engineering degree helps and is not required.

Our manufacturing has grown 2x in 24 months and looks to double again. The tooling backlog is real. If you want a queue someone else prioritizes for you, this is not the right seat. If you want to set the standard for how a company builds its tooling, it is.

What you lead and what you do not. You get a dedicated fabricator to start, and each internal tooling project carries a budget you manage. The work arrives as a brief, owned by the General Manager or the Chief Launch Engineer, who triages competing priorities. You do not own the product design, the line's production schedule, or Maintenance. You influence all three. You sharpen the brief into a problem statement and a proposed answer, present to our internal review, iterate, and build. Our CEO is a designer and builder and works directly with the launch team.

The seat: Manufacturing Tooling Engineer, reporting to Vesko Bozadzhiev, Manager of Manufacturing Engineering. Onsite in Birmingham, Alabama, with occasional travel to vendors and job sites. Relocation assistance available.

Benefits

BLOX offers comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance, flexible spending accounts, paid time off, short- and long-term disability, life insurance, and a 401(k) plan.

It is the policy of BLOX, LLC to use ability and willingness to contribute to our team effort as the criteria for making employment related decisions, regardless of an individual’s race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or other protected status. In addition, we strictly prohibit the harassment of any employee because of his/her race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation and gender identity), disability, or other protected status.

Hiring Manager: Vesko Bozadzhiev at [e-mail].