Manufacturing Tooling Engineer: End-to-End Fixtures & Jigs

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Birmingham (AL)

On-site

USD 75,000 - 110,000

Full time

9 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Relocation assistance

Job summary

BLOX is seeking a Manufacturing Tooling Engineer to design and build jigs, fixtures, and production tooling for our Birmingham, Alabama operations. You will model fixtures, validate tolerances, and collaborate with engineering and design teams to ensure manufacturability.

You will manage external vendors, justify design decisions, and lead tooling from brief to launch, with relocation assistance available.

Qualifications

5+ years designing and building jigs, fixtures, or production tooling in a manufacturing environment.
Proficient in SolidWorks or Inventor and Revit for building models.
Knowledge of GD&T and tolerance stack-up applied to real parts.
Hands-on fabrication experience: welding, metal fabrication, machining.
Comfort managing outside vendors on cost, lead time, and quality.
Ability to explain why a fixture was designed a certain way and what was rejected.
Mechanical engineering degree preferred but not required.

Responsibilities

Design and build jigs, fixtures, or production tooling and model the fixture; optimize stack-up to close tolerances.
Collaborate with Manufacturing Engineering and Product Design; manage vendors and on-site line starts.
Own the project brief, present to internal review, iterate, and build the tooling.
Onsite in Birmingham, AL with occasional travel to vendors and job sites; relocation assistance available.