Senior Tool Engineer – Aerospace Tooling & FEA

ngc; Clearfield (UT); On-site; USD 79,000 - 119,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life and disability insurance

Savings plan

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

Northrop Grumman in Clearfield, UT is seeking a Principal Tool Engineer – Level 2/3 to lead tooling design and fabrication support for aerospace programs. You will interface with review teams, manage procurements, and perform FEA to assure manufacturability.

The position offers a 9/80 schedule with every other Friday off and opportunities to drive continuous improvement across engineering and production teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (STEM) with 2 years of professional experience – OR – Master’s degree with 0 years of professional experience.
• No clearance required to start.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate vendor and equipment capability and ability to perform required tasks to include production of tooling as well as unique aerospace part production.
• Experience with closed form and FE analysis practices; Prefer NX, ANSYS and ABAQUS software systems.
• NX modeling experience.
• Finite Element Analysis FEA experience (Abaqus preferred).
• Desire, i.e. passion, to build and manufacture support hardware.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong organizational skills in managing time, projects and resources.
• Leadership ability.
• Technical attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Interface with the review team to assure customer satisfaction with the design
• Managing projects and coordinating all procurements and fabrication to meet the program cost and schedule requirements
• Inspect fabricated support hardware to assure compliance to design
• Work alongside the manufacturing team to ensure overall program quality, delivery, and cost objectives are achieved
• Work with internal Customers to concept needed support equipment for new and existing programs
• Developing tooling concepts, creating/reviewing and improving manufacturing processes to meet Customer requirements
• Work closely with Tool Designers to create final drawings.
• Perform stress analysis to assure mechanically sound per NG requirements
• Understand/monitor cost and schedule
• Review engineering drawings and designs for manufacturability
• Support vendors as needed during fabrication
• Inspect tool configuration for drawing compliance, including fit, form and function
• Support continuous improvement
• Support Operations and Process Engineering in the use of all tooling
• Other duties as assigned

Skills

Leadership ability

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Problem solving

Continuous improvement

Drive and motivation

Tooling concepts

Education

Bachelor’s degree (STEM) with 2 years experience

Master’s degree with 0 years experience

PhD with 1 year experience

Tools

NX

ANSYS

ABAQUS

Job description

Northrop Grumman in Clearfield, UT is seeking a Principal Tool Engineer – Level 2/3 to lead tooling design and fabrication support for aerospace programs. You will interface with review teams, manage procurements, and perform FEA to assure manufacturability.

The position offers a 9/80 schedule with every other Friday off and opportunities to drive continuous improvement across engineering and production teams.