Manufacturing Engineering Manager Tooling

Job Summary

fast jet canopies and flight deck windows to over 20 programmes including:
Boeing 787, Dream liner, Airbus A320, Agusta Westland, AW101, Eurofighter Typhoon and Lockheed, Martin F-22 Raptor. Our customers include Boeing, Airbus, Lockheed Martin, Bell Helicopters, Textron, BAE Systems, Pratt & Whitney, Leonardo. Our Luton site is home to 370+ employees and onsite facilities including onsite parking, food hub and vending machines.

Based at our Luton Manufacturing site as the Manufacturing Engineering Manager Tooling you’ll be working across both our Defence and Civil business lines. You will provide and lead a team of Tooling and Cad Engineers in the design, manufacture and maintenance and control of all Site Tools. This will involve the technical capability to create and design tools as solutions to support the manufacturing operations.

You’ll be accountable for delivering robust, capable manufacturing process technology as it applies to materials, tooling, part fabrication and assembly.

• Exemplifying a safety-first mind-set and ensuring compliance with the GKN Aerospace Health, Safety and Environmental policies and standards.
• Responsible for the development and support with technical solutions to complex problems within GKN Aerospace environment, our customers and suppliers by utilizing root cause analysis, preventative and corrective action to reduce and support to eliminate non-conformances.
• Maintain positive, team relationships with internal and external customers, as well as co-workers.
• Responsible for tool fabrication quotes, tooling design and input for new product quotes, tooling configuration changes that involve cost estimation and schedule coordination and New Projects Introduction support.
• Act as key interface between external tooling suppliers and internal customers such as Program Managers and Engineering Managers.
• Manage and maintain Tooling Engineers workload, skill and development, EHS and welfare to ensure tooling work is sufficiently resourced by the business with appropriate metrics and KPIs.
• Leadership of CNC Engineers and technicians to support production processes on large 5 axis CNC machines.
• Configuration control of Manufacturing documentation to support operations, costings, BOMs routings and specifications.
• Creation, control and maintenance of master tooling registers for both customer and domestically owned tooling suites.

• Technical expertise in Tooling solutions (Engineering), with a professional qualification (BEng, BSc, HNC) or strong background in engineering (Aerospace, Mechanical, or Automotive).
• Working knowledge of design for manufacture principles and tool/component manufacturing methods and able to provide technical input at all levels of work.
• Ability to create engineering drawings with an understanding of geometric tolerances and datum features.
• Organised and structured approach to tasks.
• Experience in tooling for composites and/or transparencies.
• Experienced in CAD 3D modelling and drafting (Catia V5).
• Understanding of inspection/calibration methods and interrogation of results.
• Be compliant with the Companys Environmental, Health & Safety and Energy procedures.
• Be proficient in English language, both written and spoken.
• Desirable:
  Project Management experience.
• Understanding of export control and compliance and security marking requirements.
• Working knowledge of quality system models such as ISO
  9000, AS9100, or D1-#####.
• Experience of New Product/process Introduction (Industrialisation) & existing production process improvements.

Fantastic challenges. Amazing opportunities. GKN Aerospace is reimagining air travel: going further, faster and greener! Fuelled by great people whose expertise and creativity sets the standards in our industry, were inspired by the opportunities to innovate and break boundaries. We’re proud to play a part in protecting the worlds democracies. And we’re committed to putting sustainability at the centre of everything we do, opening up and protecting our planet.

With over 16,000 employees globally, across 33 manufacturing sites in 12 countries we serve over 90% of the worlds aircraft…