Tooling Engineer

Precision Castparts Corp. (PCC); San Leandro (CA); On-site; USD 77,600 - 116,400; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid time off (80 hours per year)

10 paid holidays

401(k) plan

Job summary

Precision Castparts Corp. (PCC) in California seeks a Tooling Engineer to own the wax injection tool building process from concept to production.

The role coordinates with engineering resources to deliver high-quality tooling on time and supports back-end manufacturing and product engineering for tooling readiness. The position involves overseeing tooling projects, creating build instructions, and maintaining tooling records while ensuring customer requirements are met, including liaising with

Qualifications

• 3+ years' experience in Engineering or Operations, preferably in an investment casting environment.
• Bachelor's or Associate's degree in engineering.
• Significant project management experience is highly desired.
• High level of competence in SolidWorks (preferred), Unigraphics/NX.
• Familiarity with gage concepts and inspection equipment styling is helpful.
• Knowledge of casting blueprint GD&T and interpretation of complex drawings.

Responsibilities

• Oversee tooling including project management, status, design approvals.
• Produce tooling build instructions coordinating supplier and internal engineers.
• Maintain close contact with customers, planners, vendors to meet requirements.
• Track and manage activities for new and replacement tools across accounts.
• Serve as primary contact for tooling and gauging including quotes and POs.
• Organize tooling records and coordinate customer-owned tooling inventories.
• Provide technical support for Product & Quality Engineers and Manufacturing.
• Ensure milestones meet customer commitments within quoted costs.
• Coordinate design, build and inspection of gauges and fixtures at outside vendors.
• Support cost reduction initiatives and 6S/safety actions.

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Data processing

MS Excel

Education

Bachelor's or Associate's degree in engineering

Tools

SolidWorks

Unigraphics/NX

Job description

PURPOSE

The Tooling Engineer will have ownership of the wax injection tool building process from concept to full and sustainable production. The Tooling Engineer is the project owner and coordinates with all technical resources required to successfully build on time, high quality tooling. The Tooling Engineer works with the Engineering Team in accordance with all PCC Structurals procedures and customer specifications. The tooling engineer will also support back-end manufacturing and product engineering with other tool builds as necessary to facilitate production ready processes and hardware.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

• Oversee all aspects of Tooling including project management, status, design approval, etc
• Produce tooling build instructions that meet all industry as well as PCC specific standards. This will include coordinating specific needs between supplier and internal engineers. Ultimately overseeing the receipt of tooling to ensure those standards are met.
• Work to advance customer service business philosophy by maintaining very close contact with customers, planners, core vendors, tool vendors, and schedulers; internally and externally to ensure compliance with customer requirements.
• Track and manage all activities for new and replacement tools for all accounts. Coordination required with the customer, vendor, internal tool shop, and product engineering
• Primary contact for all tooling and gauging (pattern, core, sprue, etc.), including receipt & control of customer models, quotations, vendor selection, & POs.
• Organizes and maintains tooling records and coordinates customer owned tooling inventories
• Provides technical support for Product & Quality Engineers, Sales, and Manufacturing in identifying and resolving tooling and/or dimensional issues including wax/metal dimensional correlations, repair, and scrap opportunities.
• Responsible for performance to milestones which will support customer commitments within quoted costs.
• Coordinate design, build and source inspection of all new and reworked gages and fixtures at outside vendors.
• May be assigned to special cost reduction initiatives as part of a multi-discipline team.
• Other duties as assigned that align with business and tooling related needs including, but not limited to, 6S, safety, or cost-take out actions related to hardware function or maintenance.

SPECIAL SKILLS

• Ability to operate injection tooling and injection presses for testing and quality inspections.
• Ability to operate or utilize straightening fixtures and gages for testing and quality inspections.

REPORTING RELATIONS

• This position reports to the site Engineer Manager/Director.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• 3+ years' experience in Engineering or Operations, preferably in an investment casting environment.
• Bachelor's or Associate's degree in engineering.
• Significant project management experience is highly desired.
• High level of competence in SolidWorks (preferred), Unigraphics/NX.

• Familiarity with gage concepts.
• Experience using the following inspection equipment is helpful: surface plate, height stand, indicators, optical comparator.
• Knowledge of casting blueprint GD&T and interpretation of complex drawings.
• Mechanically inclined.
• Maintain a positive work atmosphere by behaving and communicating in a manner that gets along with customers, clients, co-workers, and supervisors.
• Must have demonstrated ability to work with cross functional technical resources.
• Must have good understanding of data processing, MS Excel.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

For informational purposes only, the range of pay for this role is $77,600 to $116,400 US Dollar (USD) Salaried based on a variety of factors. For informational purposes only, this role is eligible to participate in the Company's Quarterly Cash Bonus Plan, paid out at the quarterly bonus factor of 2X the Company's bonus multiple, based on the Company's performance in the applicable quarter. Employees will receive 80 hours paid time off every year. Employees will also receive 10 paid holidays. Employees (and their families) are eligible to participate in the company's medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Employees are eligible to enroll in the Company's 401(k) plan.

This position requires use of information or access to production processes subject to national security controls under U.S. export control laws and regulations (including, but not limited to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and the Export Administration Regulations (EAR)). To comply with those regulations, this position may require applicants to be U.S. Persons (i.e., U.S. citizens, U.S. lawful permanent residents, protected individuals as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)), or eligible to obtain the required export authorizations from the U.S. Department of State or the U.S. Department of Commerce.