General Summary:
The Tooling Design Engineer develops and designs production tooling to support aircraft manufacturing in compliance to engineering requirements and the manufacturing process. The Tooling Design Engineer will be responsible to coordinate, facilitate and document design reviews both internally and with external suppliers working interdepartmentally as needed. The perspective candidate should be an experienced professional with knowledge of aircraft tooling, aircraft manufacturing processes and ASME Y14.5 Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing.
Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Reviews tooling requests, engineering models and drawings for development of new tooling designs or tooling modifications.
2. Develops concepts for tooling in support of new engineering development.
3. Follows existing procedures utilizing the Honda Aircraft Company tooling manual to develop 3D models and 2D drawings to design production tooling to support program requirements.
4. Develops and writes tooling usage guidelines for tooling functionality.
5. Coordinates and facilitates both internal and external tooling design reviews to ensure tooling design compliance to Engineering and Manufacturing requirements.
6. Recommends improvements to existing tooling design processes, procedures and philosophies.